Cue with a Crab scrimshaw ??

I haven't a clue...but I'm guessing somebody here will answer AFTER the bidding is over in a few. Obviously, one of the holy grail collector cues...
 
Snipered at the last second for:
Winning bid: US $2,740.00 [ 20 bids ]

Anybody here get it & care to fill us in???
 
The seller started with a $10 opening bid. He/she probably picked this up at a garage sale or flea market for $5.00, if that much.

Talk about makin' a profit...
 
The seller did actually stated that he got it from an estate sale. Nice find I say!
 
pwd72s said:
Snipered at the last second for:
Winning bid: US $2,740.00 [ 20 bids ]

Anybody here get it & care to fill us in???
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Didn't get snipered at the last second, the wnning bidder increased his bid with a little over 2 minutes to go and it held up for him.
 
ric23 said:
The seller did actually stated that he got it from an estate sale. Nice find I say!
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He was savvy enough to realize that all the early interest and offers meant he had something. Glad to see the auction run it's course.
 
A little bird from the DPK camp told me the crab logo was designed for a woman who apparently owned a bar, don't know the significance of the crab, and as the story goes, she never received the cue. It may have been made in Nevada...took a long trip to Louisiana apparently. From very dry to very humid...that's one reason I wasn't crazy about bidding on it, there were also 2,740 other reasons :(

Cool pickup none the less.

Kevin
 
I was watching the auction, and with only a minute to go, the high bid was $2400. In the last minute it jumped $350. A lot of these guys have software that allows them to automatically bid in the last few seconds. That's probably what happened here.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

hangemhigh said:
Didn't get snipered at the last second, the wnning bidder increased his bid with a little over 2 minutes to go and it held up for him.
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Scott Lee said:
I was watching the auction, and with only a minute to go, the high bid was $2400. In the last minute it jumped $350. A lot of these guys have software that allows them to automatically bid in the last few seconds. That's probably what happened here.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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I hate to have to point this out for the third time, but here goes:

If you were watching a little closer you would have noticed that the winning bidder upped his bid with a little over 2 minutes to go and the last bids (2) were placed after his.

Member Id: r***g( 0 ) US $2,740.00 Dec-21-10 18:23:39 PST
Member Id: d***i( 167) US $2,690.00 Dec-21-10 18:26:15 PST
Member Id: d***i( 167) US $2,521.00 Dec-21-10 18:25:54 PST
Member Id: r***g( 0 ) US $2,500.00 Dec-15-10 07:32:42 PST


Notice the winning bid was placed before the last two bids, so he obviously had placed a bid greater than the last two bids at 18:23:39.
 
Automatic Bidding ftw! Someone tried to get it with a big bid at the last second but wasn't bigger than the original bid. Nice.
 
Well, you obviously know more about these things than me (since I never bid on cues). I watched the last two or three minutes countdown, and when I clicked on the link to the cue, it said the high bid was $2400. The winning bid was substancially more than that, however it occured. :grin:

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
 
neal916 said:
Automatic Bidding ftw! Someone tried to get it with a big bid at the last second but wasn't bigger than the original bid. Nice.
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Yeah, it is called Proxy bidding, you know how that works. He bid $2500 on the 15th. With a few minutes left he increased it to at least $2750.
 
Scott Lee said:
Well, you obviously know more about these things than me (since I never bid on cues). I watched the last two or three minutes countdown, and when I clicked on the link to the cue, it said the high bid was $2400. The winning bid was substancially more than that, however it occured. :grin:

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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Well you had me confused when you quoted me and then said it probably didn't happen the way I had explained.
 
i don't get it....I have seen buskas go for less than that in better condition....does someone know something we don't????>?
 
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