That is he smart enough to arrange bidders to increase the bid price.
Iām more worried about Pete. Does anyone know if any rescues or individuals have been in touch re rehoming him, and what it entails? Iām sure that someone will stand up for Falcon in the endāPete, Iām not so sure.
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All of the auctions on that site appear to use proxy bidding. (I donāt know of any online auctions that donāt use it at this point in time, but I remember using eBay back in the day before it was added.) It makes it easier on bidders because they can just enter their max amount and not have to babysit the auction.
It will likely just show the bidderās username. In these systems where there is no auctioneer, the bid is only raised if someone else comes along and outbids. Say Jim has the current high bid at $3,500 and is not willing to pay more than that. John is willing to pay up to $5,000. If he put that in now, with the current bid from Jim standing at $3,500, Johnās bid would raise by the minimum increment (appears to be $250) to $3,750. It would stay there unless Suzy comes along and bids $4,500ā¦ then Johnās bid will automatically raise to $4,750. Lisa comes and bids a max of $10,000. Her amount surpasses Johnās so now Lisa is the current high bidder at $5,250. Nobody else bids so she only pays that amount even though she was willing to go higher. (The reserve usually doesnāt come into play UNLESS somebody bids enough to surpass itā¦ say the reserve was $7,500 then Lisa would win but her bid would automatically go to $7,500 instead of just $5,250.)
Most auctions also add time as long as bids are still coming in. That prevents sniping, which was another strategy back in the early eBay days. You would put in your highest bid at the very last second in hopes that nobody could come along and outbid you. (Sometimes this backfired if you were on a slow connection and it didnāt get through in time! Or if you went seconds too early and somebody else snuck in there. It was very anxiety inducing 
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I imagine what is meant is that Cereal isnāt bright enough to engineeer shills.
So he is being given too much credit in the IQ department.
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In those days I won ebay auctions by sniping. Was good at it, snaked out the other snipers, knew how to be sure that I didnāt get shut out. 
Then the sniping programs came along to do it for you. Only they were miserable at accurate timing! They didnāt win anything for me, I did better on my own.
I have to say, in those ebay days anyone who smugly thought they had submitted the winning bid 10 minutes before the auction end time, then complained in outrage that in the last 10 seconds a sniper took it on top of 6 other snipers, was not in the right auction. 
Extending the auction as long as there is active bidding is more like live auctions. Auctioneers asking for final bids, doing the āgoing once, going twiceā thing. Probably does get a better price.
It is interesting that live auctions have never gone out of style and large ones still run. The live auctioneer can really do their job at generating energy and getting people to bid.
I looked at the listing and noticed that it says heās currently shod on all four. Is that usual? Does it indicate lameness or need for corrective stuff?
Why would it be unusual to have four shoes?
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The horse is not in work or, apparently, being ridden/used at all, and hasnāt been for months. As far as we know, some kind soul is just letting these 2 horses hang out in a pasture.
The owner, Cereal, doesnāt seem inclined to spend a dime on them.
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I assumed they were the same shoes that were on when the trek finally finished, as I agree Cereal isnāt spending a dime on the horses. Poor Falcon probably looks like heās standing on packages by nowā¦
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The Ancestral Mystical Life-Changing Quest ended on August 4.
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3 days after auction started, still only the opening bid 
Guess changing the photo didnāt work.
I admit to being concerned of whatās next for Falcon if this auction goes splat.
Iād like to think buttwipe would throw his hands up & leave both horses with the kind soul in MT.
Though, said kind soul might not want the added feed bill going into Winter.
The only grain of Good here is the Legendary Quest has to be looking laughable even to Cereal himself by now.
Happy Holidays, Asshat 
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Thank you for the updates.
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Iām still on board to take Pete and give him the richly deserved retirement he needs. I was planning on buying a riding horse but Iād be happy to take Pete in.
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Give Cyril a call: 786-672-7666
Old Pete is in MT. I donāt know what he wants for him. He has not said anything really about Pete other than he would consider a 501c3.
I am sure you would have to arrange all of the logistics yourself. I donāt see Cereal helping at all.
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Iāve been tempted to call him about Pete; these horses arenāt super far from me by MT standards. I keep watching the āusualā places for horse advertising in this area and let me tell ya that auction site is not one of them. lol If anyone bought Falcon they would immediately have to do shipping charges on top of it since I highly doubt many locals are seeing that ad. If he did advertise them locally for an even halfway reasonable price they would have already sold; our prices are still fairly high and they have enough of a story someone would pick them up, IMO. At the very least they have proven themselves to be kind and tolerant, poor things.
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Do you think Pete is strong enough for a trip to NY in the winter? Iāll line up a boarding facility for him, my property isnāt really suitable - too wet, it would be a swamp with horses on it.
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Iād just have a local vet do a general health exam on him to determine his condition. Unless Cereal has been even more duplicitous than usual, Pete isnāt that old or in that bad of shape.
Then again, who knows? That yahoo is such a liar. Plus heās horse-stupid, too. Lord knows what heāll claim about Pete.
Iāve had two friends who had their retired senior horses professionally shipped cross country about this time of year. They both got the okay from their vet, and the horses were fine.
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UPDATE:
A bidder listed as Sweetyness upped the bid by $250 last night.
Who here thinks thatās a Cereal shill bid?
I do 
@Spudsmyguy Bless you!
If you called Pinhead direct maybe you could relieve him of Pete.
His ph# is listed on the Platinum Auction site.
Last post he claimed to be looking for a Rescue to take him. Not for free, of course 
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Thereās a person with that username on some other websites who appears to own horses, so I think it may be legit. However, the reserve is still not met.
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Ah, yes. The phantom reserve price. That could prove to be yet one more gross miscalculation on Idiotās part.
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