I recently attended the Mecum auction in Florida for the second time with several friends and had a bad experience that will have me attending Barrett Jackson auctions in the future instead of Mecum. Late on Friday night I was bidding on a green 69 Camaro. I had spoken with the owner of this car and he told me how much hope to get for his car and it was well within my budget. I bid the car up till the reserve was met and the bids stop flowing. In a panic the owner started fussing with Dana Mecum and so Dana and/or one of his employees started to bid on it against me. When I saw this I stop bidding. The owner then got in my face and started cussing and saying “don’t let Dana steal that f-ing car, he knows what the reserve is and he is trying to steal it”. I stopped bidding because I just thought it was wrong to bid against Mecum and staff. The next day I confirmed that one of Mecums staff won the bid. The next day the car was put back in the auction and it sold on Sunday for approx. $5k more. This is just wrong!!! The house should not be able to do this against their customers. In the end I am sure this will cost Mecum more than the extra profit they made off this car. Again, this is not right! Mecum and staff should not be able to bid against their customers since they would have inside information. As I mentioned earlier in this email, I will plan on attending other auctions such as Barrett Jackson in the future, but will not be attending another Mecum. They can laugh this off if they would like, but I will have the last laugh knowing that they most likely will ignore this post and I will take my story to the social networks and most likely discourage many others from attending their auctions in the future.

Mecums disappointed customer,
Chattanooga