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These auction rigging fees are ridiculous...

Six O Two

Six O Two

(Marco)
A bit of venting post. I get the odd email from bidspotter about upcoming auctions and seeing as one came up in Calgary I thought I'd have a look. But man, these fees are bonkers. Every item has rigging fees on it, starting at $25. I'm not sure what kind of advanced rigging they're needing for these two calipers, for example...

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There's a heavy duty drill press with rigging fees of $150. I wouldn't buy it if that was the hammer price, never mind adding that and the 19% hammer fees on top of whatever it gets bid up to...

The auction in question:
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Corporate Assets Inc. | AIP Industries Inc. (Surplus Assets of) lots

Bid Live at Corporate Assets Inc.'s AIP Industries Inc. (Surplus Assets of) auction
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I went thru that last week at a Bidspotter auction in Hamilton. $25 US rigging fee on every item and 19% buyers premium. They were putting five or six lots together because they couldn’t get bids. Stuff was still a good buy in my opinion.
Martin
 
Mcgyver said:
that is obscene. Competition is supposed to limit price, wonder how much real price competition there is in that space, or whether .......
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Definitely seems like bidspotter is getting into monopoly territory in terms of these types of auctions...
 
Next it'll be a "convenience fee", then an "access fee", "fuel surcharge", "waste and recycling fee", what else could they come up with ?
 
That is the difference between a professional rigger and some guy that has tools in his shop.

Someone could get seriously hurt if you dropped those callipers. Precautions need to be taken.

Putting something in a paper/plastic bag is something best left to the professionals.

And this is why I stopped going to auctions.
 
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