I had to bail on the auction after a little over an hour because I saw how it was going to go, especially how slow they were moving. After three hours they're only on lot 105 of 540 lots. It's because their auctioneer is an idiot and doesn't know how to move it along. If he was a pro, each lot would last from one to two minutes. Some of them lasted ten minutes while dealers in the room and on the phone and on the Internet tried to outdo each other. There were several huge lots of stuff from estates - two lots, 5,000 photos each, went for over 40K each and one was won by the idiot lady in front of me, clearly a dealer. She tried to win every script, too, sending those prices skyrocketing. If I auction any more scripts, of which I have a lot of goodies left, it will be with these people. Heritage doesn't get these whack job bids. There was a Dial M For Murder script, which is basically the play, and it went for eight GRAND. I had many better Hitchcock scripts in the Heritage auction and none of them brought that kind of money, and I'm talking about every draft of Vertigo, North by Northwest, all the key ones - I would have tripled the dough in this auction. Who knew? The stills go nutty, so all my stills will go to these people. I mean scripts that had a value of two to five hundred bucks were going for over 5K.
