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How deep are your pockets?

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That's sad. I mean who knows what it would have sold for if he hadn't made his bogus bid. I hope whoever it was didn't ruin other lots too. I'd be surprised if Disney didn't ban them from future events or at least auctions.
 
noone said:
That's sad. I mean who knows what it would have sold for if he hadn't made his bogus bid. I hope whoever it was didn't ruin other lots too. I'd be surprised if Disney didn't ban them from future events or at least auctions.
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I hadn't thought of that. That really is not fair to the other bidders, if they essentially blocked everyone else from making real bids. The winner now might not have actually won. Despite the price tag still being a hefty one. You never know what someone else might have bid.
 
It's people like this that ruin silent auctions. I don't care what his reasons are you should never EVER make a bid that you are not willing and able to pay for. Your personal emotions or anger have no place bidding on something, your brain and wallet should dictate your bids and Disney should have rock solid agreements that state NO BID RETRACTIONS, YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL BE CHARGED IMMEDIATELY AFTER AUCTION END, THINK BEFORE YOU BID!!

I personally think this particular set is meh, I have had a similar experience with someone showing off at a charity event but unlike Disney the person actually had to put his money where his....pen was lol.

Note to Disney, don't let one person ruin it for everyone else.
 
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We were at the Event and the singer on-stage was about to sing "'Colors of the Wind" and she stopped because of some "incident" going on at the Silent Auction" area. Lookes like Security, Disney "management" and some of the Bidders, along with the Frozen lot in question, were being led away for a "discussion".

I THINK the lot went for $9000, and the "$14000 bid" was allowed to be withdrawn. Personally, the IDIOT who was playing games with the Bids should have been charged the $14k IMHO. I am surprised that they still do this Silent Auction stuff because there are almost fist fights going on as the bidding clock runs down. Plus I saw people still putting in bids WELL AFTER the cutoff time and they were being honored.

Mike S.
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No one ever showed up to collect the frozen pin set. The 9,000.00 bid was bogus too. The lot will be auctioned at a future event.
Two of the PTN pins were different fill than the produced pins. The perfume bottles were slightly different than the pins too be released.
 
I watched them pay for the $9000 lot, along with the other lots they won...if it did not go through, their card must have been declined later or something. The way the auctions worked this year, anyone who had bid before the cutoff was allowed to continue bidding after the cutoff, until no one involved was willing to go higher. Disney employees were monitoring these closely and there were a few people behaving badly upon hearing the prices, thus all the officials there. I do not know if that was what stopped Colors of the Wind.
 
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In the paperwork you had to sign to bid, your bid is a binding agreement. Artificially raising the prices like he did tainted the auctions. His bid should have been honored.
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My thoughts exactly. He absolutely should have been compelled to go through with the auction. After all, nobody forced him to leave his sense in his room and write down such a ridiculous bid ... .

bretu said:
No one ever showed up to collect the frozen pin set. The 9,000.00 bid was bogus too. The lot will be auctioned at a future event.
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I'm not entirely sure of that. I remember there was another (shall we say?) situation at a previous event concerning an auction lot that ended up getting cancelled after a winning bid was selected for entirely different reasons. I won't go discuss that situation any further, don't ask; those who already know either will or won't remember it on their own. In any case, the lot in question wasn't re-auctioned off during that event, and to my knowledge, hasn't re-appeared yet.
 
My wife was bidding on the Frozen lot and was told Sunday that it was not claimed and would be auctioned at a future event to be fair to everyone. She won the nightmare lot and from what I saw everyone was well behaved except the wacko who ran up multiple auctions with no intent to pay. Security was there for him and only him. He was escorted from the event by the head of Disney security and trespassed.
 
where was this, we were at one of the events, 13 event we bid on the framed PODM first 10 and got it for $1,400 but the pins cannot be taken out they were glued in the frame, yes glued we did open the back and managed to put lights in so we could see the cells.
 

yes that did happen at one of the more recent events in WDW, the bids were just crazy ones and yes the items were pulled for future events I think
 
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