In a conversation with a long-time customer of ours the other day, he reminded me that absentee bidding was once as much a controversial issue as online bidding is now at live auctions.

He said, “There were people, including me, that said we would just go to some other auction where we didn’t have to bid against people who weren’t there.” He added that absentee bidding at some live auctions appears to be just another way for the auctioneer to run the bid or mistreat those absentee bidders.

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