Okay, remember in that last question when we said that the most important item to bring was an extension cord?
We lied. The *MOST* important thing is transportation. Transportation determines *EVERYTHING* about how you deal with an auction. The more space you have, the more you can buy. If you can swing it, always try to have more space than you need. When the auction is over, everybody who has bought something has a fixed amount of time to get their stuff off the premises (sometimes they have a day, other times they have to get it off by the end of the auction or a few hours after the end of the auction). The closer you are to the auction, the better. The question of whether or not you are “close” to the auction can be rephrased as “Do you have enough time between when you buy your last machine and when you have to remove it from the premises to go home and pick up a trailer to drag the stuff home?” The advantage of being “close” is that you can get a trailer of the appropriate size for your purchase, and if you haven’t bought anything, then you save yourself the rental charges and the time fo
