Surprise Auction result

CesumPec · #1 01/13/13, 12:19 AM

yesterday was a bright, beautiful, 80F day at the monthly auction. I picked up 8 items that I either needed now or were so far below market price that I couldn't pass them up. Like there was a very old disc harrow, rusted head to toe with hardly a memory of a paint fleck on it. All the discs spin freely, just the frame is sinfully ugly. One just like it but with a new coat of paint went for over $1K. I picked it up for $200 and I'll have to grease everything and replace the top link. Great deal.

After paying for my purchases, flirting shamelessly with the clerk (I'm happily married but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy making an attractive woman laugh at my lame jokes), debating with her about the sales tax (Florida has a vague sales tax exemption for ?some? ag equipment) I departed quite pleased with the deals I had made.

But here's the problem. Doing my accounting today i realized, she marked 3 items as paid, gave me the pick up tickets which i used to haul the equipment off the auction lot, but I never paid for them. I shorted them $500. I know I have to go back and pay for this, it's just that I'm wondering if that results in adverse consequences for the nice clerk.

Miss Kay · #2 01/13/13, 12:29 AM

When they closed out the books that night and saw she was short, I'm sure she got some adverse consequences. Hope she gets to keep her job when you return the money.

tallpines · #3 01/13/13, 09:57 AM

My goodness!

You really got her flustered with your charming and "shameless flirting"!

CesumPec · #4 01/13/13, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by tallpines

My goodness!

You really got her flustered with your charming and "shameless flirting"!

After a lifetime of attempts it finally worked!

mmoetc · #5 01/13/13, 10:43 AM

Apparently you were flustered by her , too. I can't remember the last time I was that far off in remembering how much I spent. Never?

copperkid3 · #6 01/13/13, 10:52 AM

In the future, to avoid putting an attractive clerk's job in jeapordy . . . .STOP FLIRTING!

CesumPec · #7 01/13/13, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by mmoetc

Apparently you were flustered by her , too. I can't remember the last time I was that far off in remembering how much I spent. Never?

It was a significantly unusually big day at the auction for me; that $500 was about 6 or 7% of my total. There are 4 auctioneers going simultaneously at far ends of the lot. So I had a friend purchase several items for me. He gave me the tickets just as we walked up to the clerk. And then the clerk added almost $500 in taxes, title, and registration fees that I wasn't expecting and that's what got me flustered.

In Florida, powered farm equipment and lots of other farm stuff is not supposed to be taxed. The stuff she didn't charge me for were the non taxable items. But because one item had to be titled, the auction house claimed it had to be taxed. I'm calling the state tmr to get a ruling because I've looked up the law and think I'm in the right but there is probably some fine print exception that means I'll lose this one.

mmoetc · #8 01/13/13, 11:08 AM

Good luck with the state. Love and hate auctions like that. Always some good deals but I always seem to miss something because I was bidding on something else.