🛈This is a practice sale - no real bids, no money, nothing binding.
PRACTICE SALE
See how a maximum really works.
Set a ceiling on the stone below and watch a rival push against you. Your proxy only ever bids one step past them - so you almost always win under your maximum. Nothing here is real: no account, no money, no binding bid.
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PRACTICE LOT · NO RESERVE
2.05 ct Unheated Ceylon Sapphire
Opens at $1,500 · $500 increments
SET YOUR MAXIMUM
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We'll bid up to this for you, only as much as needed to stay in front.
WHY THIS MATTERS
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Your maximum is private
Nobody - not other bidders, not the room - ever sees the ceiling you set. Only you and the proxy know it.
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You pay one step, not your max
The hammer lands one increment above the runner-up. Your maximum is the most you'd ever pay, almost never what you actually pay.
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A real ceiling can't hurt you
Setting your true maximum only changes whether you win, never how much you pay to win. That's what lets a genuine top bid through.
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You can't be sniped
In the real room a late bid resets the countdown, so an absentee max always gets its fair chance - win awake or asleep.