Its all still up in the air at present. The auctioneers havent given me a figure - not even a ball park one and I dont know what most things went for as lots of folk kept popping in to have a natter and ask how it was going - I had intended to look at it on the internet myself but simply didnt get the chance
There were people here collecting all day yesterday till gone 7pm and someone was at the gate before 8.30 this morning.
Will have to get back to them in a minute, as although the auctioneers are officially here doing the handing out there are lots of queries and its just so much easier for me to answer them than them to have to keep looking everything up.
There was a major disaster about 10 or 15 mins before the sale was due to start they plugged in the massive marquee heater thingy and that together with all the lights plus those work type halogen lights which were on in the house for the viewing overloaded the fuse board. Although I have three phase power here all the fuses are split and whoever originally installed the fuse between the mains coming in through the wall and the three single phase fuse boards only used a 32 instead of `100 amp fuse. I think one of the light bulbs blew and the fuse burnt out. Fortunately my wonderful brother was here and he found and fixed it. So just as the auctioneers had finished making the sale announcements he managed to get the power on again. Without it my internet connection goes down so no online bidding!
As it was they took a longer time to get the online auction going again and apparently they had email troubles till late in the afternoon, so anyone emailing bids through missed out on all their lots. Plus I missed out on all their bids!!!
The sale started out absolutely flying, but there was a huge quantity of items here I have a feeling it tailed off quite a lot in the afternoon. I must admit I did keep out of the "sale" part of the house once viewing had started as I wasn't sure how I would feel especially if lots of friends and neighbours started getting emotional about "the old days"
The sale went on to about nearly 6 oclock and it was a cold day so it was surprising anyone stuck it out to the bitter (literally) end, but about half a doz did, though of course the prices suffered
I think whatever way it was done you could think it might have worked better another way, but at least by the end of the week I should have a pretty clear house - then its time for a good sweep and vacuum through and see how quickly the sale of the house goes through.
Their initial move in date was 28th Nov, but there is no way we are going to hit that I don't think