Melba Gramophone base sold in Surrey

[Steve]

I followed this travesty of an auction. I vote these guys get the Golden Turkeys Award for 2025...

He sounded like he had a peg on his nose and was reading train times through a platform PA system...

Then we have a lady in the saleroom whose every move, twitch, bra adjustment, sigh, yawn and anything else was amplified at top volume through the online platform...

Don't these guys know about "quiet" mice, tablets or pens? The constant clicking of her mouse drove me mad. It sounded like she was bidding. Maybe she was playing Pacman!

It’s very difficult to know where to start with this dreadful assessment of the auction other than to have a good laugh, which I did!

I was genuinely excited when this auction got going.....well if every lot sold for £5 by Mr Limptapper can be referred to as "getting going", but my contained excitement wasn't over the Melba scraps but rather the fact that I really thought I might have found the worst auctioneers yet in the UK. The competition is really tough these days. Time will tell but they are going to be an incredibly tough act to follow!

This is without a shadow of a doubt the weediest auction I think I've ever encountered. The lady whose every move was perfectly audible from her microphone also nervously shouted out the online bids as though she was dying to dash to the loo and hoped Limptapper would find his specs quickly and learn to read his own screen. He looked like a casual daytripper who upon taking a coach trip to a provincial auction as shown on TV, couldn't wait to have a go selling but then was so nervously robotic in the spotlight that he forgot that some things were reserved well above £5.