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Message:: [QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 4243520, member: 5170"]My interest in on-line only auctions and auctioneers is becoming very limited. The auctioneers may love them because they get better prices, but there are downsides that will become apparent. Unless the auction is very close to you, you have to make a separate trip to view the merchandise, which can take hours. Who wants to do that? And who wants to buy things without seeing/touching them? Then, if you win something, you have to make another trip to pick up your item, having paid an inflated price, as [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] noted, not to mention several tanks of gas. Most of these preview and pickup events happen during the week, so that's out for those of us who are employed. I think there is probably a limit as to how far people will go to do this. Mine is about an hour each way, maybe 1 1/2 hour for something exceptional. Two of my favorite auction houses are farther than that, and I don't like the idea of buying sight-unseen, so I won't be patronizing them anymore. I hope the increase in item prices makes up for the loss of customers like me; I have a feeling some of these distant online buyers will prove to be unreliable or finicky, finally leaving some of these online-only auctioneers worse off than they were before, and without their base of "regulars."[/QUOTE]