FlorinCollector

Fractional golden lunars. 

Super happy with today’s delivery. 
special thanks to @trp and @Goldfinga for sending these well wrapped. Beautiful coins. 

A new addition to the family, a Whippet puppy named Mink, much to the dismay of our existing Whippet, Fox who is taking his time to adjust.
Anyway, I’ve taken time off work this week to help out settling in the new addition and it’s given me time to snap a photo or two.
Today arrived the 10 coin Silver 1/4oz Reverse Frosted Beasts set.  After regretfully flipping all my Gold and Silver Beasts over the last several years, this set is a lovely momento of the series.
The latter two photos depict the meeting of the clan- the tiny Beasts alongside the Silver Proof 5oz, 2oz & 1oz Completer’s and the Proof 1oz Gold.  
 
All you Beast fans, enjoy! 😉 



 

My first-ever coins tube + 2 very nice coins. 

" Can you see any signs of a silver recovery ? " says Jenny
" I cant quite see the spot price , can you hold onto my legs while I hang over the edge "  says Dan

All back from grading 😀

This is not how the silver squeeze is meant to work 🤣

Working to keep dealer premiums high is all, on that front its mission accomplished. 

Brits down to £29 only 65% over spot. I think the silver squeeze is still working.

Down To The Moon !! 😂

@CoinsOfTheRealmAuctions I don’t think they are insinuating you allow shill bidding I was under the impression it was another auction house people are speaking about.
Also just referring to the comment on facebook that a folder had slipped onto the enter key to keep bidding up an item but then the folder must have slipped off to stop that person from winning the coin in the end. 

agree, stick with your own preset target with discipline is important.

Thank you for your summary. The title of the post is AUCTION WARNING - and real Lots have been quoted so therefore I think I have the right to put my side forward given it's my auction that is being spoken about.
I know Nick probably didn't think this was going to cause a stir, but there are a lot of discussions on Social Media and Forums which are damaging the industry and because we have nothing to hide I have no reservations on defending the platform. What this does is create a fear of submitting and buying in auction. When there shouldn't be. If someone is worried about bidding LIVE then all they have to do is put their pre bid in and leave it. That way they won't bid higher than they intended. Luckily this platform allows pre-bidding and a Live enviroment.
 

@CoinsOfTheRealmAuctions As quoted from the initial post to his topic, Nick made it very clear which Auction House he was talking about in terms of the people citing that they have been involved in Shill bidding.  

He didn’t insinuate anything- he just pointed out what apparently ‘a few people’ had written and put in the public domain- and that they had done this shill previously- in terms of bidding on their own lots.
He also stated that one person had ‘no regrets’ and ‘would do it again and again’. 

Louise, you have responded by stating the following- so it looks like you have processes in place to stop this from overtly happening.   
I’m guessing however, that anyone intent on involving themselves in this underhand practice won’t actually use their own customer account to carry out the shill but do so covertly. 

Louise, I am certainly not insinuating anything by my statement above, just pointing out that this practice could happen despite your best efforts.
@Nick1368 cited a 2016 Half Sovereign and a person who apparently stated that due to a ‘faulty keyboard’ he had bid 20 times on a coin- and apparently didn’t win the coin.  

Given that you sold a 2016 Half Sovereign for almost 3 times your Auction guide price, then he was likely citing your Auction- but I guess, not insinuating anything- he was simply re-telling a story of what someone had put out in the public domain. 

Louise, in your response to Nick, you make it very clear that you would want your customers to get in touch with you if they experienced technical difficulties- and I’m pretty sure you would listen to the customer and sort it out too- but if the customer with the technical difficulties- in this case the customer  who is the underbidder- doesn’t get in touch with you, then you will have no reason to think that customers bids were anything more than being placed with consideration and not due to technical reasons. 
To sum up, my interpretation is that @Nick1368 didn’t insinuate anything about the Coins of the Realm. 
 
 

@CoinsOfTheRealmAuctions I don’t think they are insinuating you allow shill bidding I was under the impression it was another auction house people are speaking about.
Also just referring to the comment on facebook that a folder had slipped onto the enter key to keep bidding up an item but then the folder must have slipped off to stop that person from winning the coin in the end. 

@CoinsOfTheRealmAuctions I don’t think they are insinuating you allow shill bidding I was under the impression it was another auction house people are speaking about.
Also just referring to the comment on facebook that a folder had slipped onto the enter key to keep bidding up an item but then the folder must have slipped off to stop that person from winning the coin in the end. 

@FlorinCollector 'on a 2016 half sovereign which sold for nearly £1000 '
this was sold in our auction ,CC do not have this coin in their auction. I know this is just conversation, but it is damaging the auction business especially as it's in a public demain. I just wish people would  think about what they are writing. The guy who wrote this is WARNING people off buying from the platform.  so let me be clear, if anyone wants to call and ask questions about how we run our auction I will happily speak with them as we have absolutely nothing to hide.
 

Results TCC41
(Una 2oz silver holding the line nicely, too).
 

@Nick1368 
Another guy said that there was fault with his keyboard and he accidentally bid like 20 times on a 2016 half sovereign which sold for nearly £1000 , and guess what ? the guy with the faulty keyboard who placed 20 bids on that coin , did not win it hahaha Anyways be careful when buying/selling coins on auctions , there are dishonest disgusting people out there who would and are doing things like this . 
I run 'Coins of the Realm Auctions' - Are you talking about the coin that sold in our auction on Saturday? If so, there were two bidders at the end of this Lot and both bid increments of £10 up until it sold. The buyer may not of wanted to pay this amount for his coin, but I can absolutely guarantee you that NO SHILL BIDDING is allowed in our auction, customers are not permitted to bid on their own submissions. If we believed this had taken place (and we can see every bid in the auction)  the sale of the Lot would be cancelled. We do sometimes have reserves on some of the lots which we have begun to put in the writeup so people understand that the reserve will be implemented before the LIVE auction if that item does not meet it's reserve it will not sell. However, this Lot you are referring to DID NOT have a reserve.
What I would say, if someone has experiencing technical difficulties during an auction they should contact us to discuss because if this customer had won I would have expected him to pay. So it is important any technical problems that involve the auction are reported.
I do take offence to people insinuating we are allowing shill bidding to go on in any auction. We do not, and every customer who bids and wins in our auction is pursued if they refuse to pay. Which I am happy to say has only happened on a few occasions.
What a lot of people do not realise is making these kind of throw away comments discourages customers attending auctions and it it damaging to a small business like ours. If you had ever had a conversation with me you would know I have integrity and would not allow this to happen in the auction.

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Hi @Nick1368 thanks for sharing on here. Every time this happens on the coin cabinet auctions I then see posts justifying how these are correct prices and they wont go lower. I then see someone on here or Facebook struggling to sell for half the price sometimes. Three graces was the best example of this. 

Aye - I am quite aware of the person that has been doggedly pursuing this.
Its not new. Only thing is the person we are discussing is different to the one you mean as far as I know. And this person is just drawing attention to the situation more than it deserves. 


However I think @Nick1368 was right to highlight it in the forum now that we have a recorded public admitting of wrong doing.