Marussia Manor auction
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It's finally over - an excruciating day, watching American auctioneers selling in dollars (how many times?) as if they were selling cattle to a Texan rancher. The constant drop outs, 'refresh your browser' and embarrassing 45 minute computer crash mid afternoon made for a toe curling experience. Leaving aside the prices (seen it all before at motorsport auctions), the increments were ridiculous. How can you take an opening bid of £250 and then ask for £500 and £750 as the next bids? One auctioneer turned down a split bid after the £500 from the floor insisting on his £250 increment. Bet that went down well. The lot sold for £500 when it could have fetched £600 if the bid had been accepted. There's me thinking auctioneers were there to maximise returns for the administrator and therefore creditors. Tomorrow should be fun...
Well, that was a waste of a day in many ways. I decided to attend and do it the old fashioned way but really all I've done is spent the day looking at American auctioneers talking to you guys watching on line and fighting connection issues.
The bidding has been extreme in the least.. I had a long list of items to bid on but most all of the time sat out and watched it go sky high for more than retail on many items (boots etc as some one mentioned) or far more than I can buy the equivalent items with far greater provenance on eBay or from the bigger memorabilia resellers.
I'm sure a mix of 6 wheels and tyres went for about 5k early on which really put into context the lunacy. One guy in the room must have bought a thousand caps and 600 pairs of shorts today.. in fairness there's virtually no lot I wouldn't have bought had it the possibility of a margin in it but how you shift 1000+ caps that netted about 2.75gbp each plus 10% BP I've no idea!
I'll attend in the morning and see if the moods different, if not pay my bill, collect my solitary purchase and get back to the real world..
The bidding has been extreme in the least.. I had a long list of items to bid on but most all of the time sat out and watched it go sky high for more than retail on many items (boots etc as some one mentioned) or far more than I can buy the equivalent items with far greater provenance on eBay or from the bigger memorabilia resellers.
I'm sure a mix of 6 wheels and tyres went for about 5k early on which really put into context the lunacy. One guy in the room must have bought a thousand caps and 600 pairs of shorts today.. in fairness there's virtually no lot I wouldn't have bought had it the possibility of a margin in it but how you shift 1000+ caps that netted about 2.75gbp each plus 10% BP I've no idea!
I'll attend in the morning and see if the moods different, if not pay my bill, collect my solitary purchase and get back to the real world..
You won't be able to pay and collect until the auction is finished according to the spiel. But then again, the only method of payment was supposed to be bank transfer until all the signs went up yesterday (£25 a catalogue to get in despite the t&c's only mentioning auction days as payable) with cash and bankers drafts added on.
Good luck tomorrow.....you'll need it.
Good luck tomorrow.....you'll need it.
SillyALFALove said:
Well, that was a waste of a day in many ways. I decided to attend and do it the old fashioned way but really all I've done is spent the day looking at American auctioneers talking to you guys watching on line and fighting connection issues.
The bidding has been extreme in the least.. I had a long list of items to bid on but most all of the time sat out and watched it go sky high for more than retail on many items (boots etc as some one mentioned) or far more than I can buy the equivalent items with far greater provenance on eBay or from the bigger memorabilia resellers.
I'm sure a mix of 6 wheels and tyres went for about 5k early on which really put into context the lunacy. One guy in the room must have bought a thousand caps and 600 pairs of shorts today.. in fairness there's virtually no lot I wouldn't have bought had it the possibility of a margin in it but how you shift 1000+ caps that netted about 2.75gbp each plus 10% BP I've no idea!
I'll attend in the morning and see if the moods different, if not pay my bill, collect my solitary purchase and get back to the real world..
It depends what you were after really. Caps, clothes and brightly coloured bodywork were always going to attract over eager bobble heads but I agree some of it was just stupid. I've just totted up what we got out of it.... 45K of pumps, 27K of Moogs, grands worth of Symetrics, 6K of rotary actuators and a couple of hydraulic coolers for a total spend of 1500 quid.The bidding has been extreme in the least.. I had a long list of items to bid on but most all of the time sat out and watched it go sky high for more than retail on many items (boots etc as some one mentioned) or far more than I can buy the equivalent items with far greater provenance on eBay or from the bigger memorabilia resellers.
I'm sure a mix of 6 wheels and tyres went for about 5k early on which really put into context the lunacy. One guy in the room must have bought a thousand caps and 600 pairs of shorts today.. in fairness there's virtually no lot I wouldn't have bought had it the possibility of a margin in it but how you shift 1000+ caps that netted about 2.75gbp each plus 10% BP I've no idea!
I'll attend in the morning and see if the moods different, if not pay my bill, collect my solitary purchase and get back to the real world..
Of course that's what they're worth to us, to nearly everyone else there it was some of the weird shiney spaceship looking stuff
I'm expecting most of the listas to go for near new money tomorrow and someone is going to buy a measuring table without realising what they weigh!
Yep, I rather suspect you are in the minority of buyers looking to reuse the items purchased, for you it's been a bit of winner.
There was two very interested parties in some duff Microsoft ECUs. Somebody wanted to interrogate them I suspect.
One of the car buyers seemed very focussed on purchases related to it, only bidding on certain gearboxes, spares lots etc so I'll be intrigued what becomes of that one. Rather suspect it will end up used somewhere somehow..
There was two very interested parties in some duff Microsoft ECUs. Somebody wanted to interrogate them I suspect.
One of the car buyers seemed very focussed on purchases related to it, only bidding on certain gearboxes, spares lots etc so I'll be intrigued what becomes of that one. Rather suspect it will end up used somewhere somehow..
SillyALFALove said:
Yep, I rather suspect you are in the minority of buyers looking to reuse the items purchased, for you it's been a bit of winner.
There was two very interested parties in some duff Microsoft ECUs. Somebody wanted to interrogate them I suspect.
One of the car buyers seemed very focussed on purchases related to it, only bidding on certain gearboxes, spares lots etc so I'll be intrigued what becomes of that one. Rather suspect it will end up used somewhere somehow..
Most of those ECUs were okay (few had been overtemped etc.) but you need to already be using them really as the software costs from MES are pretty high to "buy in" to make use of them from scratch. I didn't really understand what they were hoping to achieve with that as you can run a twin barrel seamless box on an old STEP10 if needs be. There was two very interested parties in some duff Microsoft ECUs. Somebody wanted to interrogate them I suspect.
One of the car buyers seemed very focussed on purchases related to it, only bidding on certain gearboxes, spares lots etc so I'll be intrigued what becomes of that one. Rather suspect it will end up used somewhere somehow..
Might have been the guys from HAAS hoping to get a head start cheap - if they buy the gearbox test rig tomorrow that'll make it clear
Silent1 said:
I'm hoping their servers go cheap, if it's any simulation gear it could be good..
Aside from the small print in the auction contract where all IT stuff is provided "as hardware" so you're supposed to blank it not use what's on there...... which of course EVERYONE will do poppopbangbang said:
Aside from the small print in the auction contract where all IT stuff is provided "as hardware" so you're supposed to blank it not use what's on there...... which of course EVERYONE will do
According to a couple of Marussia guys on Friday, all the IT stuff for sale has been wiped. Some of the lads who got their P45's asked to buy their work laptops but were refused.poppopbangbang said:
I've just totted up what we got out of it.... 45K of pumps, 27K of Moogs, grands worth of Symetrics, 6K of rotary actuators and a couple of hydraulic coolers for a total spend of 1500 quid.
Top job. Still cant get my head round what people paid for crap! Even the boxing memorabilia was massively over the odds, I had a look at the cost from a respectable source online and people paid much higher than retail from those sources, never mind what you can get them for privately.I've put in a few bids on some kit for tomorrow, but I doubt i'll even match the opening bid based on todays shenanigans.
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