Winning auctions for same or more than retail?

[Victor_Hong]

This sounds strangely familiar to me…

[Mike_J_ewesson]

One other reason may be the bidding app. I had several occasions where I bid via the app and other participants bid at approximately the same time (but just before me apparently), resulting in my bidding a couple of increments higher than I was willing to pay. On one occasion I actually ended up winning a case of 2014 Montrose for more than I wanted to pay and immediately called HDH. they put up a little fight, but eventually relented and put the lot back up for sale later the same day. HDH is indicating they are working on the software to help resolve this problem. I am very nervous to bid with the app b/c of this issue. Nevertheless, in Friday’s auction, I won a case of 2016 La Mondotte for $1500.

What exactly transpired for you? Something like this happened to me once… I was swiping to bid and then the swipe came in higher than I intended… not sure how software would fix this? (I lost the auction).

I immediately called HDH and told them that I did not bid what the software said I bid. They were very reluctant to allow me to cancel my bid, but my position was that when I slid the bar on the app, it said “bid $850” and the result was $950. I did not bid $950. I bid $850.

The fix may be a button or something you can click within some period of time (maybe 5 seconds or so) to renege on your bid (don’t think that’s likely). or maybe it’s a specific dollar button that pops up on the screen that you hit that reflects “$850” and, when the price changes, that button disappears and the button reflecting the next bid increment ($900) moves to another part of the screen. I really don’t know.

[Victor_Hong]

One other reason may be the bidding app. I had several occasions where I bid via the app and other participants bid at approximately the same time (but just before me apparently), resulting in my bidding a couple of increments higher than I was willing to pay. On one occasion I actually ended up winning a case of 2014 Montrose for more than I wanted to pay and immediately called HDH. they put up a little fight, but eventually relented and put the lot back up for sale later the same day. HDH is indicating they are working on the software to help resolve this problem. I am very nervous to bid with the app b/c of this issue. Nevertheless, in Friday’s auction, I won a case of 2016 La Mondotte for $1500.

What exactly transpired for you? Something like this happened to me once… I was swiping to bid and then the swipe came in higher than I intended… not sure how software would fix this? (I lost the auction).

I immediately called HDH and told them that I did not bid what the software said I bid. They were very reluctant to allow me to cancel my bid, but my position was that when I slid the bar on the app, it said “bid $850” and the result was $950. I did not bid $950. I bid $850.

The fix may be a button or something you can click within some period of time (maybe 5 seconds or so) to renege on your bid (don’t think that’s likely). or maybe it’s a specific dollar button that pops up on the screen that you hit that reflects “$850” and, when the price changes, that button disappears and the button reflecting the next bid increment ($900) moves to another part of the screen. I really don’t know.

Did HDH outsource its bidding process to Priceline?

[Ethan_Abraham]

Making the advice to bid what you want beforehand even more sound…if anything I will go back and update bids (for example if nothing early has hit) but always on future lots. In general though I find the hdh interface light years superior to any auction house. The ability to very easily group lots is great.

[Mike_J_ewesson]

Making the advice to bid what you want beforehand even more sound…if anything I will go back and update bids (for example if nothing early has hit) but always on future lots. In general though I find the hdh interface light years superior to any auction house. The ability to very easily group lots is great.

I agree that the HDH online format is better than others, but if you bid live, you often can pick up wines really cheap. I have picked up wines below the online reserve (i.e., what they permit you to bid prior to the auction) in the past three auctions.