I Just Paticipated In My First WebCast Auction

[Bozo Galora]

A dot com bellyup auction with the usual servers, cisco stuff, lucent phone stuff, laptops/monitors/computers etc.
But this time I did the whole auction from my office.

You register first. (e-mail)
Download their software.(Only needed if Auction isnt "on" when you call)
They email back PH# and bidder # and password for auction
Dial up their 1-800 phone number, answer a few questions, youre in.
Tap "1" on phone to bid. Tap "#" to "lower paddle"
When price gets close to end auctioneer opens phone lines to "web bidders" to talk to auctioneer directly.
There are people live at the auction site also bidding.
They offer third party packagers and shippers.
People from Finland were bidding (tho I wouldnt want to pay freight on 5 servers to there)
I listened to whole auction on speakerphone, while flipping auction assets picture pages on the web.

Man, this is so cool I cant stand it.

 

[Gnurb]

um... Links? Real phone number? Are there any more?? Please share with us...

 

[Bozo Galora]

raht here

 

[Bozo Galora]

First it was education online, now its auctions.
This IS the wave of the future!
We will NEVER leave our house.
Kudu's to Dovebid, no tech glitches, smoove as silk.

Smooooove!

 

[randomlinh]

now, only if we can nab some kick ass deals on these

 

[Bozo Galora]

That reminds me of the old joke about the Lone Ranger:

The Lone Ranger and Tonto are riding after the bad guys thru a canyon when they lose them. Suddenly, on all four sides of the canyon thousands of Indian warriors in full war paint appear as if from nowhere. The chief lets out a warhoop and the braves charge in at the two riders.
The Lone Ranger looks at Tonto with a resigned look and says: "Looks like we've had it pardner."
Tonto, with a big smile on his face replies: "What do you mean we?"

 

[rawko]

It's too bad like three thousand people including a bunch of retards listen in on these dovebid things.. Somethings go over twice what it would go on ebay.