The bid spotter is leaning toward Robbie Jandik’s seat, and the question on screen is “Are we good at 125?” Jandik is not. The text over the next shots, which cut away to a matte gray Rezvani Tank parked on the hall floor, reads “*saying no*”, and the card after that gives his reason: “I still had 3 cars to bid on.”

Jandik, who posts as @jandikrobbie, titled the 89 second clip “WINNING MY DREAM TANK” and captioned it “PT 2: WINNING my dream TANK at auction in Vegas.” The whole negotiation is told in on screen text while he sits among rows of other bidders in a convention hall with an American flag hanging from the rafters.

The video opens on its own ending, a clasped hand and the word “SOLD”, then rewinds to the start of the lot. The spotter’s first line is “Give me 100K!” and the next card reads “$100,000 BID!!!” Under a banner that says “THE REZVANI TANK BATTLE” the asks stack up: “$110,000 now”, a card reading “Yes. Yes.”, “Now $120K” with a weary face emoji, then “130K now” with a wide eyed one. Jandik labels himself stressed at that point and the camera catches him looking down at his phone.

The next two cards carry the numbers. “125K NEEDED” fills the screen first. Then “10% fee + $8K shipping” sits over close shots of the truck: the gray bodywork, the tall off road tires, the white quilted seats. Those are the only two costs the cards list beside the bid.

That is where the spotter asks “Are we good at 125?” and Jandik refuses. The spotter does not walk away. He leans in beside the chair with both hands open and the card reads “Gimme 122.” Two more follow, “What you get?” and “125?”, before text reading “*TV cameras*” marks a camera operator standing in the aisle. Then “That’s it…?”, “Anddd…” and “SOLD!” as Jandik reaches out toward the spotter. A cameraman turns toward his seat under the word “Smile!” and the last frame, in black and white, says “WHEW.” The clip never shows the final number, and its last promise is “FULL TOUR SOON.”

Two days later, on his Instagram account robbiejandik_carsandcastles, he posted a third part that runs through the other lots he chased in the same hall, captioned “PT 3: buying a tank, Mystery Machine, and 6×6.” It starts inside a log shaped camper that the captions call a “1000 year old” tree home, hand carved “with a chainsaw”, with “$71,000” on screen as the camera moves down its carpeted hallway. Next is a blue, green and orange Mystery Machine van. The captions say he is “quite bummed” about not buying it, then float another route: “However what if we built one”, shown beside a photo of a plain silver van.

The bidding in part 3 is on a black open top Hummer with a gun mount on the roof. The cards read “BIDDING ON HUMMER:”, “$13,000 bid”, “$14,000 bid” and then “*passing at 15*”. He also films a gray six wheeled 6×6 pickup, says in the captions that he met the man who won it, and raises buying it from him. The reel closes back at the Rezvani, which the captions describe as a “military styled armored” SUV.

What His Two Videos Show a First Time Bidder

Have the all in figure worked out before your lot rolls up. His cards put two costs beside the bid: a 10% fee and $8K for shipping. Those are his numbers for this truck at this sale. Ask the auction office for the fee on your lot and get a transport quote to your own address before you sit down, then write the total on your phone.

Treat every ask from the spotter as a question you can answer no to. In this clip the asks went 100, 110, 120 and 130, and after he refused 125 the next number offered to him was 122. His no did not end the conversation or cost him the truck.

Split your budget across the whole run list before the first car you want. His stated reason for holding back was three more cars still to come. List every lot you plan to bid on and the most each one can take, so a single truck does not spend the money meant for the others.

Set a pass number and use it. On the Hummer he let it go at 15 after bids of $13,000 and $14,000, and the reel moves straight on to the next vehicle.

Walk the vehicle on the floor before it crosses the block. Both videos include his own footage of the Tank parked away from the bidding seats, outside and inside, down to the seats and door handles.

If a lot gets away, find the person who won it. Jandik says he did exactly that with the 6×6.