Reply by Loren

Yeah – I’m way to far away to be a prospect for these auctions myself…
but you know, if you wait and watch something will come along that’s
close enough to be worth thinking about seriously. I miss out on
machinery bargains all the time, being less that the early worm or
whatever… but I get my share too because I stay engaged in looking.

...and I concur that the seller may have unrealistic expectations
of how much of investment he can recover in an auction like this.