Why do EMP auctions end at 3PM on Sundays?

Charlie

This just annoys me to no end!  I bet Bruce would get another $500 annually out of me if the Sunday auctions ended at 7ish like the other ones.  I have lost count the number of times I missed ending of the Sunday auctions.

Rant over...

Bruce why do they end at 3PM?  Is there a good reason?

Bruce

It is for the European bidders. The Tuesday and Thursday ones end "in the middle of the night" for them, and these don't.

Are you saying that you forget when they end? Start setting some alarms!

David

Bugger the Eurpeans - Aussie are your #2 buyers in a non USA timezone!

Charlie - why not bid early?

hahahahaha.

Yeah you're right, has anyone won with an early bid?

HumphreyBogart

Yes I have. Get with the times 

David

HumphreyBogart said:

Yes I have. Get with the times 

Sure, bid $500 a week out on a Pretty Woman poster, I am sure you probably got a shot at winning.   :P

HumphreyBogart

David said:

HumphreyBogart said:

Yes I have. Get with the times 

Sure, bid $500 a week out on a Pretty Woman poster, I am sure you probably got a shot at winning.   :P

If pretty woman is what you want, give it a go. Sure you will have success.  

Charlie

eMoviePoster said:

It is for the European bidders. The Tuesday and Thursday ones end "in the middle of the night" for them, and these don't.

Are you saying that you forget when they end? Start setting some alarms!

Well, I have this person in my life who does not like me buying posters.  I would have to stop what I am doing.  So I can see it now....  

"blam, blam, blam, blam" 

My wife: "What's that?" 

Me: "Ummmm, nothin'"

Wife:  "Telllll me...."

Me: "It's an alarm so I can go bid on posters."

Wife (Rant on):  "You're telling me that you set and alarm to go and buy more posters?" 

I could go on but there would just be more comments about money and space and borderline insanity.  Not to mention the ol' "for paper, it's just paper!"  

Bruce

E-mail me your phone number, and I will call you each Sunday before they are about to start ending.

Or send your wife shopping, so she doesn't hear the alarm. The possibilities are endless!

110x75

Yeah you're right, has anyone won with an early bid?

I did today. I placed my bid yesterday, as I was not going to be at home today. Won it. I'm sure it helped that what I bid on is an obscure film only a handful of people care about.

Charlie

eMoviePoster said:

E-mail me your phone number, and I will call you each Sunday before they are about to start ending.

Or send your wife shopping, so she doesn't hear the alarm. The possibilities are endless!

You know next time there is something I really, really want I might take you up on that phone call.  But probably better to just set a recurring series in the iphone and see if that helps...

Bruce

Charlie said:

eMoviePoster said:

E-mail me your phone number, and I will call you each Sunday before they are about to start ending.

Or send your wife shopping, so she doesn't hear the alarm. The possibilities are endless!

You know next time there is something I really, really want I might take you up on that phone call.  But probably better to just set a recurring series in the iphone and see if that helps...

Maybe I should offer "phone reminder" service to "Five Star Bidders"!

Charlie

That would be a cool option in the watch list "Call me, I don't want to miss this one!"; if you could work out a computer based auto-dial system. 

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110x75 said:

Yeah you're right, has anyone won with an early bid?

I did today. I placed my bid yesterday, as I was not going to be at home today. Won it. I'm sure it helped that what I bid on is an obscure film only a handful of people care about.

Nice one Matias