do we do our horse auction legal?

This topic comes around regularly and the same opinions with them.

When I was selling I have to admit most of the time I was just fatalistic about prices attained, and occasionally, I was very happy if I got surprised.

I can offer this observation from being behind the counter for a decade or so: the veteran sellers for the most part have a very practical approach and a reasonable expectation I found as I grew in experience, and the regular buyers were skilled and smart and had very few complaints unless they bought under the influence where they only blamed themselves with a laugh.

As you can tell from comments from B.Irwin, regular bidders don't buy into the conspiracy crap people keep speculating about here. I would be surprised if any on those comments come from anyone who has bought a few horses over a period.

I cant understand if there are buybacks why dont the seller pays commision and surely its costing whoever is runs the auction money to have that auction

Rockspider Wrote:

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> I cant understand if there are buybacks why dont
> the seller pays commision and surely its costing
> whoever is runs the auction money to have that
> auction

Unless the rules have changed in the last 2 years, you pay an entry fee, an acceptance fee, and then comm on the reserve or selling price. The rules on VBB is current and I never had to deal with them so I need to go read up before having an opinion.