Ok VERY long thread:

SO I attended several auctions today and there was one held by a reputable auction house that mainly sells smaller ticket items like autographs, and always gets good reviews. I noticed they took a while to close each lot after the winning bid, but no biggie. WELL. There were a few items that I took a mental note of because I thought they wouldn’t sell and was pretty surprised when they did. But then later, I went to check something in the catalogue and saw that those same items were now marked as “passed”, aka not sold. Weird.