... a chip known to Bob as having been sold at the club auction. Besides, it is unreasonable to expect him (or anyone else) to find and comment on every conceivable vhip auction. We all pick and choose what we spend our time on.

It is simply NOT reasonable for you to expect to be able to improve the selling chances of your "live" auction by posting here, while simultaneously expecting that no one else will say anything about that auction while it is still pending.

Posters here comment on "live" auctions all the time. Fact of life with which you will have to live if you want to promote your auctions here. Fairly simple concept, actually.

----- jim o\-S