As stated in the rules of bidding on items in the art show:
Art Show Sales
Buyers may bid on any piece (aside from those marked Not For Sale (NFS) or already sold by quick sale) until the close of the Art Show room on Sunday. Three (3) bids will send a piece to live auction. Any piece with fewer than three (3) bids will be sold for the highest bid price.
I bid on 6 items, 2 with the buy it now price. At (And After) the end of the show at 2 pm I was the only bidder on the remaining 4 items.
After I left at 2:10 pm the 4 items were taken to the live auction and opened to bidding disregarding the above rules! As it happens only one of the art pieces was sold out from under me. But it was an original and therefore irreplaceable.
Also, the charity auction was held before the advertised time. All because they "didn't have enough art in the auction."
In conclusion: I did not go to live auction because I thought they would observe their own rules. And I missed any chance to buy the charity items (of which there were two I particularly wanted).
All in all this has been an inferior con. Right now I don't expect to attend again (unless they have a guest that I just have to see.) It isn't worth the hours of waiting in lines for every event. Even with the new "get the ticket" early plan it takes 1 -2 hours in line to get to the popular events.
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