Auction accuracy

[Not db4600]

 

[744k]

Looks like a 55 john deere

 

[88Sooner]

I believe that is a Deere plow

 

[trackrat]

Deere plow

 

[joeysmith]

They had AI do their descriptions

 

[DWF]

A few years ago on the Red Power site there was a picture of a green plow at an auction. The seller was a John Deere guy, but the plow was an IH plow painted green and not a recent paint job. If it made the seller feel good, that's all that was necessary.
DWF

 

[Steven Allen]

AI descriptions are all over eBay. Irritates me no end. "Perfect for the ______enthusiast." Give me a break, and tell me about the item! Lazy sellers.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

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Yep, AI is helping the short-bussers take over.

Mike

 

[tom upton]

Here I thought it was going to be here's how I check the accuracy of moldboards at an auction post. Find a straight 2x4....

 

[AG in IN]

A recent one locally.

AG

 

[NY 986]

At a consignment auction within the last two weeks there was an IH 37 disk painted with JD green and yellow and advertised as a JD disk. Most of the time nobody calls any attention to such discrepancies and does not affect the bidding.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

There was an online estate auction over in Pennsylvania recently where they were selling 'harvester parts lot 1', 'harvester parts lot 2', and 'pile of iron'. What they really had: New Idea 319 gathering unit, New Idea 322 husking bed, and the mounts to put it all on a tractor. Apparently none of the people running the sale knew what a mounted corn picker was.

 

[used red MN]

There was an online estate auction over in Pennsylvania recently where they were selling 'harvester parts lot 1', 'harvester parts lot 2', and 'pile of iron'. What they really had: New Idea 319 gathering unit, New Idea 322 husking bed, and the mounts to put it all on a tractor. Apparently none of the people running the sale knew what a mounted corn picker was.

Not picking on you, of course many here see the humor. But yes, someone who frequents a vintage tractor site under the username Timmycornpicker likely knows that information. The reality is tractor mounted corn pickers and those with knowledge of them is disappearing segment. So it is with a good percentage of items discussed on these forums. Such as very few know a lot of details about horse drawn wagons or equipment.
There is a current thread on the Farmall forum that is asking about identifying some Cub implement parts. The OP has a pair of items yet to be identified. I personally don’t think they are specific to a Cub, I think they have some other purpose not even associated with a tractor implement. I bet if you had a picture of them 60 years ago and showed it to patrons at a rural implement dealer or feed store that it would not have to be shown to very many before they were identified.

 

[Charlie M]

My parts tractor I bought last year was labeled as a Farmall 230. I knew from the picture it was a Super A. That might have been the seller making that claim but it wasn't disputed by the auctioneer. I bought a trailer a few years ago that said no ramps with it. Turns out they were in the storage area where they were supposed to be. That was the auctioneer just being too lazy to check.

 

[NY 986]

My parts tractor I bought last year was labeled as a Farmall 230. I knew from the picture it was a Super A. That might have been the seller making that claim but it wasn't disputed by the auctioneer. I bought a trailer a few years ago that said no ramps with it. Turns out they were in the storage area where they were supposed to be. That was the auctioneer just being too lazy to check.

The money has been too easy the last 15 years or so in the auction business for them to care. Today they roll around in 100,000 dollar pickup trucks and take expensive vacations. In previous times a farm auctioneer was a part time venture that cleared little profit in a lot of cases. For quite a few the auction business came after a primary job and a part time job with the auctioneer running himself ragged to buy a month's worth of groceries and heating oil to do a sale or two per month.

 

[flying belgian]

Not picking on you, of course many here see the humor. But yes, someone who frequents a vintage tractor site under the username Timmycornpicker likely knows that information. The reality is tractor mounted corn pickers and those with knowledge of them is disappearing segment. So it is with a good percentage of items discussed on these forums. Such as very few know a lot of details about horse drawn wagons or equipment.
There is a current thread on the Farmall forum that is asking about identifying some Cub implement parts. The OP has a pair of items yet to be identified. I personally don’t think they are specific to a Cub, I think they have some other purpose not even associated with a tractor implement. I bet if you had a picture of them 60 years ago and showed it to patrons at a rural implement dealer or feed store that it would not have to be shown to very many before they were identified.

"Not picking on you" Ha, ha, I get it.

 

[Not db4600]

At a consignment auction within the last two weeks there was an IH 37 disk painted with JD green and yellow and advertised as a JD disk. Most of the time nobody calls any attention to such discrepancies and does not affect the bidding.

One I recall from a few years back, but no longer have a picture of it was an online auction listing for a JD 1 1/2” model E gas engine. The pictures showed the water hopper with tape covering the hole and the description read “missing gas cap.”

 

[730virgil]

how dumb can you get?

 

[Tony in SD]

We googled a local band only to find out AI thinks that Miss Candy is part of the band. Of course she is not. The band is only a ONE man band with an electric box to add a beat and background music.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

The money has been too easy the last 15 years or so in the auction business for them to care. Today they roll around in 100,000 dollar pickup trucks and take expensive vacations. In previous times a farm auctioneer was a part time venture that cleared little profit in a lot of cases. For quite a few the auction business came after a primary job and a part time job with the auctioneer running himself ragged to buy a month's worth of groceries and heating oil to do a sale or two per month.

Around here the auctioneers get up to 30% commission from the seller and 10 to 20% premium from the buyer. Good business I guess, but there is a lot of expenses I'm sure.