Street Sweeper,
Sometimes walking away from the auction empty handed is the best thing to do. So what you wasted a day and gas. At least you aren't going to be sweating your butt off breaking down a bunch of stuff to make a few dollars a ton or hour off it. You could have been up against a dealer to or a first timer with little or no experience. A few loses and he will be out of the game and guess what you still have your money to get back into the game. I had a saying back in the day when I used to watch auctions and trust me that's all I did for a while. Nothing better then watching an auction and bidding on scrap in your underwear from your house when its 10 degrees outside. I might hit a jackpot one out of 15 auctions that I thought were worth it to watch and I had a chance to buy a few hundred ton of material for cheap. You might strike out 14 times but that 15 time where there's no scrap guys at the auction BOOM the scraps flying off the shelves for cheap. There's nothing better then there being 10 or more pieces of equipment being bundled up because theres no one else bidding one it. Hearing the auctioneer saying we are going to sell the next x amount of lots as one since theres no one bidding on it but one person and hearing no objections from the crowd you know its yours. Once its over its going to be fist pumps into the air and air guitar riffs in your living rooms at least thats how it was for me. Keep it up even the sun shines on a dog a$$ somedays. Time is always on your side patients is a virtue is in the auction business. No one wants to blow there wad and catch auction fever. Its a disease that most auction goers get and they always flame out.
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