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Re: LATAMA Square Button Switchblade

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He's the OP of this thread.
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Re: LATAMA Square Button Switchblade

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Bill DeShivs wrote:He's the OP of this thread.
I think I missed something here, Bill.

Are you saying that "bigbob219" = "Mantiques" - the seller of this knife?
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omega wrote:
Bill DeShivs wrote:He's the OP of this thread.
I think I missed something here, Bill.

Are you saying that "bigbob219" = "Mantiques" - the seller of this knife?
Can that be Omega? The bidder has 43 transactions listed. Nah...
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JulesVane wrote:
omega wrote:
Bill DeShivs wrote:He's the OP of this thread.
I think I missed something here, Bill.

Are you saying that "bigbob219" = "Mantiques" - the seller of this knife?
Can that be Omega? The bidder has 43 transactions listed. Nah...
Makes no sense to me either. That's why I asked bill to clarify.
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I just assumed it was the same person.
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It's a beautiful and desirable knife. It will be interesting to watch.
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this will be interesting to see hell i thought it would top out at 3500 but starting at 3500 wow, but like orangeboy stated it is a very desirable knife
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I'm not sure how the auction site works for sellers as I've never sold. But, why start the bidding price so low below the reserve price? Starting bid $3,500, current bid $3,815 but reserve not met. I'm assuming the reserve must be $4,000(?). Why not just start the bidding at $4,000? Seems to just give prospective buyers false hope. I would think it would take a bidder some time to get up the "nerve" to place a $3,815 bid, only find out they didn't even have a chance. The anxiety alone would kill me before my wife had a chance to.
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JulesVane wrote:I'm not sure how the auction site works for sellers as I've never sold. But, why start the bidding price so low below the reserve price? Starting bid $3,500, current bid $3,815 but reserve not met. I'm assuming the reserve must be $4,000(?). Why not just start the bidding at $4,000? Seems to just give prospective buyers false hope. I would think it would take a bidder some time to get up the "nerve" to place a $3,815 bid, only find out they didn't even have a chance. The anxiety alone would kill me before my wife had a chance to.

let me see if i can explain it ok lol , the reserve could be 10,000 dollars so lets say the bidding only goes up to 7500 and reserve was not met the seller can make the hi-bidder the winner so if you yourself were hi-bidder when auction ended at lets say 7500 and reserve was not met the seller can still make you winner . as a seller if you really want to test the waters that is the way to do it , very smart move on the sellers part :)
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you use to be able to manually appoint the high bidder the winner but they were not obligated to accept the offer if they didn't want to .
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wicollector wrote:you use to be able to manually appoint the high bidder the winner but they were not obligated to accept the offer if they didn't want to .
yep i forgot the hi-bidder would also have the option to accept or deny being winner at the price they bid
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It's at four grand and still not hit the reserve.
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Here are mine. :)
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"orangeboy wrote: Here are mine. :)"
...Wow! Really nice!
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The auction has a few more days. The bid is close to my reserve.
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