Ever Bid on a Coin and then ask, "What have I done?!"?

braddick

Someone linked this coin a couple weeks ago. I remember seeing it and thinking it would be cool to own the worse 09-S VDB ever. This afternoon I saw the coin offered on eBay and before I could talk myself out of it, placed my bid.

It was with a mixed blessing I saw that I had won after the auction closed. There was a big part of me screaming on the inside hoping for sanity and another bidder to step up!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11944&item=3301400739&rd=1

Oh well.

LucyBop

I had this happen to me on a PSA Graded Eddegirn James Rookie card. Luckly, I was sniped in the end.

agfox

LoL.. I had that coin bookmarked on the last Heritage auction it was on. I was so tempted, but I thought the 75 bucks at the time seemed high.

Look at it this way, it's a conversation piece

relayer

it's a conversation piece

only if you want to talk about how much you overpaid for it

fcloud

Maybe AGC can slab it at a higher grade for you!

Fairlaneman

Congratulations !! Didn't even open the Link, do not want to see it !!!

Braddick you seem to be a Impulsive buyer. Is this true ?

Ken

braddick

<< <i>it's a conversation piece only if you want to talk about how much you overpaid for it >>



Ouch!

(The truth hurts!)

Paultjuno

When will the insanity of having the worst registry set end?!?
There will come a day when I will not even be able to affourd PO-1 coins, then I'll be stuck with MS coins alone

braddick

Ken, I truly try NOT to be an impulsive buyer, but occassionally I find myself bidding on a lot on eBay and it is usually some odd coin that really doesn't fit in my collection.

Now, if ANACS starts up a Registry...

(By the way, if anyone knows of a worse (authentic) 90-S VDB, I'd be interested in the downgrade!

66Tbird

I like it,,,,, really,,,,,, it has a personaliy, and it fits the collection.

merz2

I too recently did this.I have been searching the net for a 1954 PR68 RD Lincoln.I saw a PR67 RD on Heritage FUN Show Auction and placed a bid.I keep hopeing someone outbids me before the end of the auction.No I didn't think it would upgrade from the scan.

MadMarty

I was seriously eyeing a 1889-cc in a p-02, was up to $80 but didn't make the reserve. Really wanted that just to put up a post for Pat...

Bulldog

Brad,

It went to a good home, where it will have tons of company...LOL

I have won so many impulse bids, it makes me want to schedule a double appointment with a shrink. Everytime, I tell myself "thats it" "stop it" "never again" Yup thats what I say to myself everytime....LOL

Bulldog

Lakesammman

Twice....and I won't divulge the details cause you might be the next buyer!!

Twowood

I didn't have the addiction til I started collecting gold. Now I'm in over my head.Now I know how those miners felt back in 1849! Gold...Gold...Gold. Twowood

pontiacinf

Yeah when I bid 1050 on Cameos pr70dcam kentuckey that went from pop 0 to
5 overnight

luckily someone was a little stupider than I was...I emailed and thanked him

Outhaul

I've bid on coins where I sat in front of the screen chewing my nails PRAYING for a BIGGER wally to come along and outbid me

Don't know why I do it. It's not that there was anything wrong with the coin, just that I got a tad too aggressive with my bidding.

Cheers,

Bob

TheNumish

Hey Braddick,

Didn't we already have this conversation about the 1892-s anacs $1 you bought from Winn? You were the one that saved me on that one.

I'm the first to admit if I like something I can be very stupid about it. I can also admit sometimes I get the itch to buy something and get stupid. The good news is that this only happens with about 5% of my purchases.

Singapore

I'm not proud of this, but on a couple of occasions I've attended a live auction and bid on another example of a high grade coin I already own just to 'protect' the value of my own piece.

In theory this is a great idea (or its unethical - but for this story, lets just say its a great idea), as you cleverly bid a few times and then step out having raised the price a few notches and let some other buyer take the piece.

In reality, this quickly turns into a bad episode of the Lucy show, where Lucy and Ethel are both bidding on some horrendous lampy they already own each thinking they are ratcheting up the price not knowing they're both in on it and ultimately discovering Ricky and Fred bought it. Boy, that was one fun-ny show.

To make a long story medium lengthed, in both cases I ended up buying the coin.

I don't do that anymore.

MacCoin

I'm to cheap to be an impulsive buyer, well at least on ebay but in the coin shop or a show when I have a coin I like in my hand sometimes I just can't help myself.

Rampage

Oh my my my.............................It is not that bad Pat. I would have paid $100.00 for it. You can probably put it back on eBay and sell it for the same thing or a few dollars less maybe.

Libertad

I snipe about 30% of the time, and have joyously killed the pending snipe bid before the end of the auction when I regained my senses and asked myself those 4 little words;

What am I doing?

Insanity comes to me in waves.