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I've been trying to complete a birth reg set for me wife for awhile now and happen upon a 61 Lincoln on eBay a couple days ago. PCGS PR68CAM,... last piece needed for the Cam (trying to stay affordable here). I put an early bid in, which I usually never do, but forgot to check again until the last minute. I went to check on it and it said I had 53 seconds left, so immediately I try and place a max of $90.00 for fear of loosing the opportunity.
Well, must have been lag between servers, because by the time I hit the last "submit" button the auction had ended for $37.50, and it wasn't my $37.50. I guess it wouldn't bother me so much if the pop was astronomical, but with it being 40/10 @ 69, none higher,... there went my chances for awhile I think.

Why couldn't the damned thing been on DLRC or DHRC or somewhere so I could just buy it and be done with it?? Why didn't I just initially bid the 20+ bucks over what the trend is to begin with, so that my lapse in memory wouldn't get the better of me? Sometimes I loathe auctions!!

OK, I'm done venting now.

Craig

The Rede we live by: If it harms none, do what you will.
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  • bozboz Posts: 1,405
    Sucks to be you huh?image
    The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it--James Truslow Adams
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    Let me load up my GLOCK....

    There...a Bullet is in the chamber.....
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • That is a bummer.
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Offer the winner a hunnerd bucks????

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  • Sucks to be you huh?

    Yeah, Boz. Indeed!

    Let me load up my GLOCK....

    Nah, Lucy. It'll never make it through me thick skull. Get a Magnun image

    Offer the winner a hunnerd bucks????

    I had that very thought, Topstuf, but after the last one that didn't sell in an auction from a 16 coin lot, I offered to buy the coin from the seller at whatever premium they felt reasonable and never got a reply. In fact, the copy of the email I sent them had the typical eBay blurb, warding sellers/buyers to beware of people offering outside the arena. I think I scared them away, even though my email was upfront. Nevertheless, I just might do that.

    Craig
    The Rede we live by: If it harms none, do what you will.
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  • nOoBiEeEnOoBiEeE Posts: 1,011 ✭✭
    Ebay always seems to lag for me at the last minute when I try to bid. Always, never ceases to amaze me.
  • Well, eBay may spank me if this guy gets a burr and reports me for unsolicited email, but I wrote him and asked if he'd be willing to sell anyway. All I can do is wait and see.

    Craig
    The Rede we live by: If it harms none, do what you will.
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  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Let me load up my GLOCK....

    There...a Bullet is in the chamber..... >>



    Remind me NEVER to get Lucy mad at me!

    PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Let me load up my GLOCK....

    There...a Bullet is in the chamber..... >>



    Remind me NEVER to get Lucy mad at me! >>




    the only way you would ever get the HepKitty angry, daddy-o, is if your a sixty second man...

    know what I mean?
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Let me load up my GLOCK....

    There...a Bullet is in the chamber..... >>



    Remind me NEVER to get Lucy mad at me! >>




    the only way you would ever get the HepKitty angry, daddy-o, is if your a sixty second man...

    know what I mean? >>


    Would 61 be ok? image
    (I was going top pick another number in the 60s but figured, nah.)
    PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    Now a Sixty Minute Man... I'm good with that!

    Sixty Minute Man - the Dominoes 1951
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • 60 minutes? Kitty (my wife, not Lucy) says I'm good to go there.

    Why? As you get older it takes you all night to do what you used to be able to do all night long! image

    Craig
    The Rede we live by: If it harms none, do what you will.
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  • I don't know why anybody would not be using esnipe or some other service when it is really important.
  • esnipe? Don't know what it is, but sounds like it would have been good to have last night.

    Craig
    The Rede we live by: If it harms none, do what you will.
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