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Great personal story for you guys: Sometimes when you loose an auction, you can still win it back!!

I thought you guys and gals might find this story entertaining:

I was watching this FUGIO cent on ebay a few weeks ago and I was going to snipe it but I missed out and the auction ended. I was mad because the coin went for QUITE a bit cheaper than what I was willing to pay. I wanted to know what the winner's highest bid was just so I would have known what I would have had to bid at. I contacted him, and he writes me back a number that was far lower than my bid and we began having email exchange about the coin and other coins in general. He actually put in that really low bid thinking he wasn't going to win and was just as surprised as I was how cheaply it went for. We chatted for a week or two casually and I was enjoying the new coin friend I had made online.

Well, he writes me out of the blue that he might have an offer for me with the fugio. It seems a dealer friend of his had gotten a lower grade chain cent that he was going to get for a good price and he was going to be selling a bunch of his coins so that he could afford the new chain coin. He offered to sell me the Fugio at what he bought it for so he could get it out of his hands. (It hadn’t even arrived yet! His fugio purchase was an impulse buy he didn't think he was going to get anyway.) At first, I was skeptical of course because I know how crazy ebay can be. However, after thinking it over and chatting with him about it on the phone and through email, we agreed the safest way for us both to do it was a "buy it now" on ebay with paypal. (He is a paypal protected seller with excellent feedback.) Well, he got the auction ready, called me on the phone and I got it within two minutes of it being posted for his price plus shipping and handling and made a coin friend in the process! Pretty wild huh?

Sometimes when you loose, you win!

Comments

  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Liberator: Great story! Thanks for sharing it with us. Please let us know what you think of the Fugio Cent after you've received it. image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,652 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've met and befriended several people by losing auctions to them on eBay. If someone beats me on a better date Lincoln Cent or type clip, I habitually write him/her a short congratulatory note with an offer to exchange want lists. Several times I've been able to help them with duplicates from my own collection, or vice versa.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    Great story!


    I've only had one crushing ****up on eBay, and I still haven't recoveredimage






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  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for sharing. Had a similar experience only I was contacted by a losing bidder on an early date gold piece I had won. (It was before sniping programs were popular and he got caught in a meeting and was not available to do his own snipe.) The piece had been a jewelry coin but he wanted it for his grandmother for her birthday. I think he planned to remount it. I ended up selling it to him for what I had been prepared to pay for the coin even though it went for less than my maximum bid. Ended up as a win-win situation all around.
  • liberator that is a really cute dog.


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  • Catch22Catch22 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭
    I once got a nasty email from a ticked off fellow sniper who missed out by a couple of seconds. The guy bid on a coin early in the listing...with just a few seconds left he was the only bidder and upped his own bid, which I topped when I sniped. This guy was not a happy camper.

    Had he simply emailed me and expressed a deep interest in the coin I would have sold it to him as it wasn't something I was particularly passionate about.


    When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

    Thomas Paine
  • That's the type of story everyone likes to hear. I've made 2 coin friends by contacting other bidders. One, we went back and forth bidding one evening. I finally put in a bid that was it for me. I e-mailed him and said that I just put up my last bid and if he wanted it I was out. He put up a bid then got sniped at the end by someone else. We've been e-mailing for over a year now and hope to shake hands in Pittsburgh in Aug.

    Jerry
  • imageCool story!!!!!!
  • TheLiberatorTheLiberator Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭


    << <i>liberator that is a really cute dog. >>



    Thanks! That is my baby, MEKO. She is a Shiba Inu. They are a Japanese breed. You can see what they look like better with this link:

    Link to google shiba search!

    They are like big cats that loved to be held for hours!
  • TheLiberatorTheLiberator Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭
    double post..sorry! image
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good deal! And a new friend to boot! image

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Cool Story. I met a certain person from Greece the same way.image
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • Listed a watch on Ebay,guy in the Netherlands wanted it so bad he talked me into canceling the auction by making a very strong offer.
    He got the watch and we chat via email a couple times a week !
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