This auctioneer is part psychologist part performer part salesman excelling at understanding the billionaire bidders. I’m amazed how she switches accents from British to New Yorker to Middle American depending on which bidder she is targeting.
the whole auction looks extremely mechanical and routine, actionist just tries to make it look less robotic and boring, she could be easily replaced with an app with the same result
It’s the second most complete stegosaur, Sophie the Stegosaurus is slightly more complete. Although Sophie is a young adult or subadult, so Apex could give us valuable information about adult stegosaurs
Everyone coming to comment about it sitting “in someone’s house”, please do some research. It is sitting in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
the owners dont just keep it. it wont make any investments just sitting in there. instead they give it to exhibitions where they pay the owners to display it
Phyllis moved things along, her ever-present gavel a reminder to bid quickly. She's masterful - leaning out toward the field to pull bid after bid, then leaning back and reeling them in.
@@amberkeller6757 The people on phones were representing the bidders, not the actual potential buyers themselves. My impression was that many of the reps on the phones were actually Sotheby's employees. She actually mentioned the titles of some of them. Only one was welcomed to Sotheby's, so perhaps a new employee. I imagine that there's a lot of responsibility (as well as liabiliity) to deal with phone buyers and that it would be Sotheby's top employees on the team. Thus the auctioneer would know their names.
oh PHYLLIS was at the rostrum for this auction?! let me tell you, when I saw the opening clip for this video I went HELL YEA! that late bid by Jodi's bidder was phenomenal, and what a bidding war between Jodi's bidder and Adam's bidder. Phyllis did an incredible job keeping the room on their toes, too! Impressive auction through and through.
@@jasonsseashellandfossilcol390 think before you write. Do you see anyone looking for sympathy? Do you understand that someone spend 40 million dollars on a dinosaur? I ask you to think. Don’t just go off of your emotions. If you don’t understand it. That’s ok too.
Those bones are 150 million years old. That’s before money, before the concept of money, before even the concept of concepts. Hopefully they’ll last long enough to see the same come true again
Been fossil hunting for years here in the UK . Minor finds . I don't really treat myself to anything but for my sixtieth birthday I bought a mososaur tooth from a fossil shop . Massive treat . Honestly if I was a mul😢 billionaire loads of cash 🤔 Probably would have bought this steggie
This is real treasure worth every penny ... nothing man made can compare .. you can walk into a home with a 30 million dollar painting and youll just walk by not knowing ... walk into a mega mansion and ur face to face with this beast ... youll forget all about the mega mansion
That would look amazing in my front yard decorated with Christmas lights but I think that I would have stopped at 27 million. Guess I will wait for a T-Rex. Those are more abundant so I should be able to get a good deal.
Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum!
@@OrontesRM Actually, that's good. That means it wasn''t sold to someone in the Middle East or China, and I imagine he lives in an area where paleontologists would have good access to it. I imagine that it will end up in a museum sooner or later.
@@OrontesRMKen Griffin, who has donated hundreds of millions to scientific institutions already, a notable example being The Field Museum in Chicago. I’m not happy with the $40million dollar price tag, but at least there’s a bit of silver lining and it won’t be lost to science entirely.
I don't even really know what to say. When you have billions of dollars, money loses all meaning. For the person that bought this, 45 million dollars might as well be 44 cents. Money means absolutely nothing!
Money is the reason this specimen can exist and be cared for properly to begin with. It's now being housed and cared for at the Museum of Natural History which requires millions to operate.
Sad that the only bidding came via phones with the auctioneer leaning in that direction, only glancing at the room. It looked like a call center. The room meanwhile appeared to be filled with other Sotheby's staff. Where is the drama?
That audience looks mighty young to be witnessing something being sold that is so old. I am curious about some of the other items sold. It is nice to see the regard for the Stegosaurus. It is a bit pricey simply to assemble and bring to auction such an offering.
I think a lot of the "mighty young" are interns. Also, this is not a case of simple assembly and bringing to auction. This guy owns the land he dug it out of bit by bit over a long time and then cleaned it which also takes a painstakingly long time, put all the pieces together, and then brought it to auction. He is a commercial paleontologist and puts in a lot of know how and work to arrive at what you saw today.
This was a 10 AM sale with mostly modestly priced lots, like a Purpurite, lot 51, that went for $1,680. These are people off the street who want to watch an auction. Sotheby's lets anyone in for sales like this. There just happened to be a dinosaur skeleton with an estimate of $4-6m that sold for $44m(!!!!) amongst all the low-value stuff. @bngr_bngr No, these are just random people off the street.
@@SusanHarris-sk2ib These are people off the street. See my response to the original post as to why. You can see many interns watching the sale in the pan across the back of the room at 15:17. One other tell is the audience members are dressed too casually and the interns have a "smarter" dress code.
@@artpro5930 My response was to SkyRangerNick - not to you as far as I remember - when he spoke of mighty young people and a bit pricey for simple assembly and putting up for auction.
The names she's calling out: Simon, Emily, Cassandra, etc. - are these the name of the bidders who are calling in, or the names of the Sothebys employees who are holding the phones?
It`s so sick, what will be the price for the next T- rex? There are thousands of tons of fossil bones waiting to be unearthed and studied by paleontologists in museums. And skeletons also, it`s just a matter how complete and wich time they will be be found. Da Vinci painted only one portrait of "Mona Lisa"... but millions of T- rex individuals were walking on this planet in the cretaceous. People are obviously getting crazy at the moment... 🤔
I think a triceratops skull would be awesome. That was my favorite dinosaur as a kid. It would look incredible mounted on a wall or display. The entire beast would also be incredible. I guess if you had the room, a full brontosaurus would be a conversation starter. Lol
44Mio is a bit much for daddys pocket money 😅 for every rich kid. Maybe it is a private Museum now, we dont know. When the last owner can work with this money to bring up more Dino bones, then it is a good thing.
Of course she is! That's her job, and the whole point of the auction. Auctions are basically gambling, and we don't hold it against casinos for making their gameplay interesting. The results aren't rehearsed, but her manner is practiced for sure! To auctioneer at sothebys you've got to be absolutely top of the game
Just cannot stop thinking of how man hungry kids this would have fed or how many homeless vets could be housed with this money instead it fed the ego of a hedge fund manager.
$44.6 million for a bunch of bones.....to have that kind of wealth and to spend it on this versus how this money could have been spent in a more impactful way. Hopefully, this proud new owner of Apex will loan it out to a museum for a very long time. Curious, who gets a chunk of that 44.5? Sotheby's certainly will get a %'age, what about whoever found the skeletal remains, what about the representatives on the phone bidding on behalf of the various bidders?
because you never have to worry about a dropped call or crappy reception. I actually miss landlines - sound and volume was crystal clear, never garbled and no dropped calls.
@@bzamski17 it's not even about jealousy It's more that fact these are priceless specimen and consider the fact that stegosaurs are rare among Morrison formation and the fact if it's gets lock up in someone mansion it's literally lost and it also contain arthritis sick of disease plus skin impression .
@@tsfoxe hopefully there are some that aren't as lucky . One allosaurus is chilling in the mansion 60 percent complete . Im thinking it's possible that the museum that got stan brought it
For one or two generations, maybe. But it will certainly end up in a museum at some point. It's been underground for 65 million years; what's the rush?
It will also help to fund future excavations, for more species to be found. It is probably why the paleontologists decided to sell it, to fund future excavations
Y’all need to realize that a lot of these things are bought and then loaned or donated. It’s really frustrating to read these uneducated comments. It’s literally in a museum right now in New York.
Rich people really live interesting luxurious lives. But are they happy buying things ordinary people cannot purchase. When we leave we are the same leaving behind material objects, it all stays with Mother Earth the creator of what we see with mortal eyes. Our treasure is in Heaven with God.
i knew from the beginning theyll sell it 20m $ at least 😂 1kg of grape in supermarket can cost that money soon, and its a stegosaur real sceleton. beter than superyachts and superhouses investments 😂
This auctioneer is part psychologist part performer part salesman excelling at understanding the billionaire bidders. I’m amazed how she switches accents from British to New Yorker to Middle American depending on which bidder she is targeting.
the whole auction looks extremely mechanical and routine, actionist just tries to make it look less robotic and boring, she could be easily replaced with an app with the same result
@@JameBlackyou sound silly
Im surprised this was sold at auction to the public rather than being kept in a museum since they said its likely the most complete stegosaurus ever!
It’s the second most complete stegosaur, Sophie the Stegosaurus is slightly more complete. Although Sophie is a young adult or subadult, so Apex could give us valuable information about adult stegosaurs
It will most likely be loaned or donated to a museum for political and tax purposes
This will most likely going to be loaned at the museum which is always the norm in the museum industry.
@@pyroglyphies 100% a lot of items in museums are on loan by private owners.
It is in a museum. Museums cannot afford these things. They rely on donations and loans.
Everyone coming to comment about it sitting “in someone’s house”, please do some research. It is sitting in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
the owners dont just keep it. it wont make any investments just sitting in there. instead they give it to exhibitions where they pay the owners to display it
Phyllis moved things along, her ever-present gavel a reminder to bid quickly. She's masterful - leaning out toward the field to pull bid after bid, then leaning back and reeling them in.
Amazing she knows the bidders names as well
@@amberkeller6757 The people on phones were representing the bidders, not the actual potential buyers themselves. My impression was that many of the reps on the phones were actually Sotheby's employees. She actually mentioned the titles of some of them. Only one was welcomed to Sotheby's, so perhaps a new employee. I imagine that there's a lot of responsibility (as well as liabiliity) to deal with phone buyers and that it would be Sotheby's top employees on the team. Thus the auctioneer would know their names.
oh PHYLLIS was at the rostrum for this auction?! let me tell you, when I saw the opening clip for this video I went HELL YEA! that late bid by Jodi's bidder was phenomenal, and what a bidding war between Jodi's bidder and Adam's bidder. Phyllis did an incredible job keeping the room on their toes, too! Impressive auction through and through.
Yes!! I was so excited when I saw it was her. I love the way she commands the room and seems to so enjoy the gameplay of the auction
The bidding psychology was very entertaining, and Phyllis is an amazing suctioneer.
The auctioneer is superb fun to watch.
yeah imagine the commission on a $40m sale!
How exactly? By simply speaking??
I don’t get it
@@terryl7749almost half
@@Slant88 she a drama queen
I love the stegosaurus but it’s kind of sad that we live in a world with so much poverty and a dinosaur’s bones can be sold for 40 million dollars.
Better get out there and fix the world
@@mikecyanide6714 working on it
There will always be poverty amongst us. So the best you can do, help those that God allows you to help and be content with that.
Poverty is caused by the people in poverty, little sympathy here
@@jasonsseashellandfossilcol390 think before you write. Do you see anyone looking for sympathy? Do you understand that someone spend 40 million dollars on a dinosaur? I ask you to think. Don’t just go off of your emotions. If you don’t understand it. That’s ok too.
She is sooooo calm.
Those bones are 150 million years old. That’s before money, before the concept of money, before even the concept of concepts. Hopefully they’ll last long enough to see the same come true again
atoms of your body are as old as the universe itself
Saw this in a story, so I've came to see the dinosaur 😊🦕
I bet spike’s mom is so proud of what her “little” one has achieved.
Oh, I forgot the auction was today.😮
Arg and it was so cheap.. sadly I was on my yacht...
@@davidg8497such a shame. let’s look for the current owner and bid it 3x the price. can you guys help find?
Its so funny to see the auctioneer posing and changing positions so many times like its a photoshoot!!!!
i have some bones from a pork rib dinner while ago, starting bid at $8.
That is the funniest comment I have ever read. Thanks me for making me laugh so hard.
8.1
8.11
11$ 😮
👏🏽👏🏽🤣
Been fossil hunting for years here in the UK . Minor finds . I don't really treat myself to anything but for my sixtieth birthday I bought a mososaur tooth from a fossil shop . Massive treat . Honestly if I was a mul😢 billionaire loads of cash 🤔 Probably would have bought this steggie
This is real treasure worth every penny ... nothing man made can compare .. you can walk into a home with a 30 million dollar painting and youll just walk by not knowing ... walk into a mega mansion and ur face to face with this beast ... youll forget all about the mega mansion
I dearly hope a museum bought it.
i'm also impressed with the lego version 😊
@@DreadEnderKen Griffin bought it
i remember seeing a dinosaur in a mega mansion tour that was selling with the house
When you need to launder 40 million you buy a fucking dinosaur
@@Planetgreen365 thank you
Dawg the "living" dinosaur in Jurassic world fallen kingdom sold less than that😭😭
That would look amazing in my front yard decorated with Christmas lights but I think that I would have stopped at 27 million. Guess I will wait for a T-Rex. Those are more abundant so I should be able to get a good deal.
I would have stopped at $20 💀
Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum!
Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum!
@@DreadEnder it's brought by a billionaires but it's going to a USA museum
@@kenfern2259 hopefully
You can go to any natural history museum and see one to be honest
@@junioradult6219 I saw this one in person it different from other stego I saw . The head shape has a bit of a curve also the beak is broken
Ken Griffin bought the dinosaur
I assume it was bought by a museum with very deep pockets. Like Sue the Tyrannosaurus was bought by the Field Museum in Chicago.
no, unfortunately it has been bought by a private, an American guy. He said he might loan it to a museum.
@@OrontesRM Actually, that's good. That means it wasn''t sold to someone in the Middle East or China, and I imagine he lives in an area where paleontologists would have good access to it. I imagine that it will end up in a museum sooner or later.
@@OrontesRMKen Griffin, who has donated hundreds of millions to scientific institutions already, a notable example being The Field Museum in Chicago. I’m not happy with the $40million dollar price tag, but at least there’s a bit of silver lining and it won’t be lost to science entirely.
@@devinp.2934 to be honest ive nvr been to a natural history museum that didnt have one or more already
@@junioradult6219
Those are casts
I like to watch wristwatch auctions. This is a different crowd. A much richer crowd.
Love your style, Phyllis.
Phyllis Kao always so mesmerizing to watch!
This would've been cool to see in person
I am in love with Phyllis.
Errr
I don't even really know what to say. When you have billions of dollars, money loses all meaning. For the person that bought this, 45 million dollars might as well be 44 cents. Money means absolutely nothing!
Money is the reason this specimen can exist and be cared for properly to begin with. It's now being housed and cared for at the Museum of Natural History which requires millions to operate.
this is such a weird video haha but strangely absorbing
Oh this? It's my stegasuarus! I call her Spiney.
Sad that the only bidding came via phones with the auctioneer leaning in that direction, only glancing at the room. It looked like a call center. The room meanwhile appeared to be filled with other Sotheby's staff. Where is the drama?
Wait. Why does the heading say $44.6 million when the at the end of the auction it sold for $40 million?
Commission
The "buyer's premium" gets added after the final bid and is retained by the auction house, not the seller. It's been that way since the 1970s.
@@andyhorne9747 Thanks.
@@Pax22100 Thanks.
It's a buyer's premium, colloquially referred to as "the juice" is added to the hammer price, which in this auction was $40M.
I do wish they wouldn't put the final bid in the video title. We saw this fossil come to life in ...... "Night at the Museum"
She's like an exotic dancer ... amazing physicality and charm. Brava!
“Passion”..
Thank You.🍃
That audience looks mighty young to be witnessing something being sold that is so old. I am curious about some of the other items sold. It is nice to see the regard for the Stegosaurus. It is a bit pricey simply to assemble and bring to auction such an offering.
Many are bidding for someone else. They are buyer representatives. Much like the people on the phones.
I think a lot of the "mighty young" are interns. Also, this is not a case of simple assembly and bringing to auction. This guy owns the land he dug it out of bit by bit over a long time and then cleaned it which also takes a painstakingly long time, put all the pieces together, and then brought it to auction. He is a commercial paleontologist and puts in a lot of know how and work to arrive at what you saw today.
This was a 10 AM sale with mostly modestly priced lots, like a Purpurite, lot 51, that went for $1,680. These are people off the street who want to watch an auction. Sotheby's lets anyone in for sales like this.
There just happened to be a dinosaur skeleton with an estimate of $4-6m that sold for $44m(!!!!) amongst all the low-value stuff.
@bngr_bngr No, these are just random people off the street.
@@SusanHarris-sk2ib These are people off the street. See my response to the original post as to why.
You can see many interns watching the sale in the pan across the back of the room at 15:17. One other tell is the audience members are dressed too casually and the interns have a "smarter" dress code.
@@artpro5930 My response was to SkyRangerNick - not to you as far as I remember - when he spoke of mighty young people and a bit pricey for simple assembly and putting up for auction.
what a strange auction.
How so?
Maybe the real treasures are the friends we met along this auction
I like how she pronounces Cassandra.
I need to watch outdoor survival videos to bring back some balance now. Indoor plumbing makes me feel rich.
It belongs in a museum
It is in a museum
Must remember to pick one of those up for the living room.
And no one in the audience actually bidding on things anymore…
If Sotheby’s ever makes an AI app, it should be called Phyllis !
Really annoyed this appeared on my home page. Just rub my nose in it that my bid of $12.50 was outbid.
I guess Ross got his stegosaurus. 😉😆
Amazing the uncomfortable chairs they make the bidders sit in while bidding millions! 🙂
The names she's calling out: Simon, Emily, Cassandra, etc. - are these the name of the bidders who are calling in, or the names of the Sothebys employees who are holding the phones?
The agents representing the bidders. Jodi represented Ken Griffin who purchased Apex (The Stegosaurus skeleton).
She noted at least one by title as an employee of Sotheby's. Perhaps many of them are the same.
Adam and Jodi work for Sotheby's. Not sure on the others.
Cassandra is a very high-ranking employee. You don't allow newbies to handle this kind of action.
Damn a new record!
why do they bother to all those people when all the winners are bidding on the phone
lol
They’re there for other items, this is just one clip
most of those bidders just phoned it in
I FINALLY GOT THIS COMPLETE STEGOSAURUS 🙏❤️👍
The commission will keep Sotheby’s going for a while. I bet staff got a treat after this one…
Compared to the 100s of millions priced items? This is small potatoes for them
This is nothing 😂
Bring back the streams man
I bought it 🦖
It`s so sick, what will be the price for the next T- rex? There are thousands of tons of fossil bones waiting to be unearthed and studied by paleontologists in museums. And skeletons also, it`s just a matter how complete and wich time they will be be found. Da Vinci painted only one portrait of "Mona Lisa"... but millions of T- rex individuals were walking on this planet in the cretaceous. People are obviously getting crazy at the moment... 🤔
for only $0.27 per year it has been extinct
Who won the auction
Wonder what my bones are worth in a 100 mil years? 😂
I think a triceratops skull would be awesome. That was my favorite dinosaur as a kid. It would look incredible mounted on a wall or display. The entire beast would also be incredible.
I guess if you had the room, a full brontosaurus would be a conversation starter. Lol
Why are they all on the phone?
They're talking to the buyers. The people in the room aren't the buyers, they're just representing the buyers.
a nice round number - for tea
Dang it, only if it were 44.5 million it would be mine now 😢😢😢😢 😂
It belongs in a museum. Not to the Beseech of a fool.
It should be rightfully sent to scientists or a museum not to some rich person who's using their daddy's money.
44Mio is a bit much for daddys pocket money 😅 for every rich kid. Maybe it is a private Museum now, we dont know. When the last owner can work with this money to bring up more Dino bones, then it is a good thing.
I read it will go to US museum
I mean finders keepers, whoever discovered it should probably have the right to sell it to whoever they want.
Lol Ken Griffin bought it
@@George-nd7ot he’s loaning it out to museums
Ken Griffin is the buyer
How she knows their names?
How does it work because she hammered it om 40. Is the 4.6 a commission for the auction house?
Yes
Dystopiaaaaaaa
The lady selling is deliberately leaning forward and back to increase the sense of excitement and interest. It’s rehearsed. Pumping the money up.
You think the lady body language is really influencing the decision maker/accountant on the other side of the phone line?!?!?!?!
Yeah, everybody was pretty bored before she leaned in.
Of course she is! That's her job, and the whole point of the auction. Auctions are basically gambling, and we don't hold it against casinos for making their gameplay interesting. The results aren't rehearsed, but her manner is practiced for sure! To auctioneer at sothebys you've got to be absolutely top of the game
Should've had a picture-in-picture of the face of the seller as the millions got higher and higher.
The title and description says sold for $44.6 million but the buyer gets it for $40 million at the end and everyone claps?
A buyer's premium is added to the hammer price (in this case $40M).
I hope my assistant is writing this all down I just wanna play cards
She is fantastic. What a presence. But please… Tax the rich!
Just cannot stop thinking of how man hungry kids this would have fed or how many homeless vets could be housed with this money instead it fed the ego of a hedge fund manager.
Couldn't agree more. Just illustrates how out of whack our economy is.
$44.6 million for a bunch of bones.....to have that kind of wealth and to spend it on this versus how this money could have been spent in a more impactful way. Hopefully, this proud new owner of Apex will loan it out to a museum for a very long time. Curious, who gets a chunk of that 44.5? Sotheby's certainly will get a %'age, what about whoever found the skeletal remains, what about the representatives on the phone bidding on behalf of the various bidders?
Please tell me a museum was the winning bidder
Buyer's premium is 16%, that brings it up to 46.
i can't afford to run my a/c, mfs out here buying dinosaurs!?‽
Damn, that room looks depressing
Why do they all use landlines?
because you never have to worry about a dropped call or crappy reception. I actually miss landlines - sound and volume was crystal clear, never garbled and no dropped calls.
"They are just numbers at this point" such a capitalist joke.
Jealous much
That’s how an auction works.
@@bzamski17 it's not even about jealousy It's more that fact these are priceless specimen and consider the fact that stegosaurs are rare among Morrison formation and the fact if it's gets lock up in someone mansion it's literally lost and it also contain arthritis sick of disease plus skin impression .
@@kenfern2259 Stay tuned for the fossil to be donated to a Natural History Museum as is nearly always the case.
@@tsfoxe hopefully there are some that aren't as lucky . One allosaurus is chilling in the mansion 60 percent complete . Im thinking it's possible that the museum that got stan brought it
apex herbivore?
Them plants were quakin in their boots when he rolled up in the hood.
I heard this was a good auctioneer. She got nothing on the ones in rural Wisconsin.
She ain't got nuthin' on Jim Dickens from Letterkenny, Ontario.
Yeah shes trying way too hard to be sensual or whatever that is….shes trying to make the auction about her
whats with the phones - why dont people that have the money just go to buy ?
Wheres adele she will get a custom piece but I thought she would bid
Where does the money go?
And to never been seen again. Housed in a private collection. What a tragedy.
For one or two generations, maybe. But it will certainly end up in a museum at some point. It's been underground for 65 million years; what's the rush?
It will also help to fund future excavations, for more species to be found. It is probably why the paleontologists decided to sell it, to fund future excavations
Many times the winning bidder will lend it to a museum. Although this one I'm not too sure what the owner's intentions are.
Y’all need to realize that a lot of these things are bought and then loaned or donated. It’s really frustrating to read these uneducated comments.
It’s literally in a museum right now in New York.
Rich people really live interesting luxurious lives. But are they happy buying things ordinary people cannot purchase. When we leave we are the same leaving behind material objects, it all stays with Mother Earth the creator of what we see with mortal eyes. Our treasure is in Heaven with God.
If it sold for 40, what is it actually worth 😳
I want to buy a t rex
Why wasting time with such a small increment of half mio. It is just pocket change. Should at least use 5 mio increment
I bid $1.25.
typeshii
Like watching paint dry, I can't believe this got so much attention. The world needs to get a life.
i knew from the beginning theyll sell it 20m $ at least 😂 1kg of grape in supermarket can cost that money soon, and its a stegosaur real sceleton. beter than superyachts and superhouses investments 😂
Shocking behavoiur from idiots battling for a carcass that would kill them instantly who can barely afford it.
Sotheby’s = Money Grabbers
The constant repeating of the same number is annoying
I hope in a few million years our skeletons may be worth more than what we were alive 😢
People applauding money is kinda cringeworthy.
..sold to a private buyer, unfortunately.
Wondering if it was bought by an oil sheikh: "Look what it was before being petrol."
Cant you do that with everything living?
oil*