Schuler’s Produce Auction

Apparently you have to be very aggressive to receive your merchandise here. I am beyond disappointed with my experience today! I placed a bid on a lot of mums. When asked how many I wanted of the lot I indicated two. Then I was supposed to get through the crowd of people to go get them. Only, no one would move. And I had a small child in hand which made it more difficult to push through. I did not see who took them, since I never was able to get to the front before the next lot of flowers were being auctioned. A lady who had witnessed my lack of receiving my goods said «you have to leave all your manners behind» or people steal them and to tell the auctioneer as we would still be charged. My husband returned, I explained the situation to him, he went to the auctioneer who looked at the computer and told him our number wasn’t recorded as buying anything. Before leaving roots for good I went back to the booth to make sure nothing was on our number because I had a bad feeling about it and certainly didn’t want this going against us as my husband had to give his license to get our bidding number. Well, yes under our number it showed we got two mums. I explained what happened to the unsympathetic worker who just said «I don’t know if you have the mums or not» and didn’t give an answer as to why the auctioneer said our number wasn’t wrote down. On the rules outside the window of the booth it states it is not the auctioneers responsibility if things are stolen. So, I have the impression that stealing must happen often at this auction. This was my first attempt at purchasing something at an auction, so maybe this isn’t unusual. All I know is my attempt at getting a good deal on some fall flowers cost me $ 4.24 for nothing.