Bid on some bulls in a video auction about 3 weeks ago, handled by LiveAuctionsTV - it was a frustratingly bad experience: their format really sucks; had to constantly be 'refreshing' the page anytime someone else placed a bid on anything.
About an hour and a half after the 'Race Horse Finish' period began, a bunch of the bulls - including one that we were bidding for - disappeared from the offering. A sale report was posted, showing us as the winning bidder on that bull ... but when we looked 8 hours later, another buyer was listed as the winner - at the same $ figure - but, based on the proxy bid we had in place, that second buyer would have had to pay $500 more.
Farm manager/wife was livid - we'd left and gone about our chores thinking we'd bought the bull - he was no long showing up on the site, no way to monitor - or continue bidding on him - and no reason to think that we needed to.
Seller says, 'It must have been a computer glitch.'
Folks at LiveAuctionTV claim the sale went on for another 2 and a half hours, after half the bulls in the sale 'disappeared' and the 'unofficial' sale report was posted; won't or can't explain why 24 bulls just 'disappeared' from the offerint.
I won't be bidding or buying in another sale hosted by LiveAuctionTV.
Guess it could have been worse. Check out what happened to this guy...
http://www.dtnprogressivefarmer.com/dtn ... tion_num=1