My wife an I were at a farm auction where they were auctioning off a 6 bedroom 4000 sq/ft 1860's farm house. The man running the auction started calling off the prices and kept dropping it because there were no initial bidders. he started at $400K then $300K then $200K then $160K. He then asked for $165 for a couple minutes an then a mystery bidder bid $165K so nwohe was looking for $170K. After a couple minutes one of the attendees asked what the high bid was and who had it. The Auction guy said he was the high bidder at which point the attendee responded that he was "shilling". There were strong words tossed back and forth between both guys and it got pretty heated in the kitchen. At this point 90%ofthe people just walked out of the auction which ended the whole thing right there and then. The auction guy stateed he knew the old couple wouldn't accept anything under $220K so there was no harm in him trying to drive the price up. Everybody there was pissed off and the old couple which owned the house just broke down crying in front of everybody because they payed $1000 to the Auction guy for this crap.
What are your thoughts on what the auction guy did? Was it even legal?
I feel for the couple who wasted their time and money on this joker.
Speedy
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