Outsniped by 86¢

K6AZ

Sniping doesn't always guarantee you will win, especially if there is someone else sniping that has the coin valued about what you do. I just knew I should have sniped it at $70!

Bid History

ddbird

Oh man! Not to rub it in, but I bet thats an AMAZING coin in hand...

RYK

Here's an expensive coin that I lost by $2! Very annoying and painful. It caused me to go out an get an AU-55!

Link

I did make friends with the seller.

Edited to add: $66.66. Number of the

K6AZ

That's what I figure. I guess I just got taught a lesson for trying to be cheap, I was thinking of going over $70 on it but I figured there might be less competition on New Years Day. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

K6AZ

<< <i>Here's an expensive coin that I lost by $2! Very annoying and painful. It caused me to go out an get an AU-55!

Link

I did make friends with the seller.

Edited to add: $66.66. Number of the
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Boy, that looks even more painful than my loss!

tincup

Reminds me of the time when I was out-sniped by...... 1 cent. Yikes!

But then I have succeeded a few times also...

fcloud

You win some; you lose some. Better luck next time. I know I have lost my share of coins at being sniped!

Merc

Ouch
That has never happened to me, but I've done it to others

LanLord

Your bid was $66.66? I'm generally not too much into numerology or stuff like that, but lots of 6s in a row gives me the willys. Makes me wanna buy fire insurance.

K6AZ

I was hoping it would give me good luck, but the only real number you don't want to deal with is 666.

LanLord

<< <i>I was hoping it would give me good luck, but the only real number you don't want to deal with is 666. >>

Yeah, but just the same, I usually toss a 7 in the middle when I get a chance.

K6AZ

Guess I'm just not really superstitious. The number 13 has never bothered me either. Or stepping on cracks in sidewalks and all the other "bad luck" things.

TomB

I wouldn't think 666 would bother you; after all, look at what you use as your icon.

K6AZ

<< <i>I wouldn't think 666 would bother you; after all, look at what you use as your icon. >>

MFH

Getting sniped is not exactly what I'd call a pleasant experience. My worst "snipe - on - me " was loosing a 1901-S quarter in ANACS net grade AU 55 ( Unc Details, Obv cleaned ) on a Heritage sale two years ago - it had slight hairlines to the left of Liberty's head. I bid on it - and I was the higher bidder on line up and until it hit the block...it sold for $50 more than my bid... <Fifty bucks!!! >...plus the 15% buyers fee. There was a nashing of teeth that night in Naples ! I was so angry I was unconsolable for months about loosing that coin. No one from Heritage would tell me that it was a buy back - or not. {I guess I'm still not over it.}

I should have opted for a call back on this coin, but I thought it was mine, until the actual prices realized were posted !

Jdurg

Being sniped really does suck. There have been many times when I was looking for a 1/10th ounce gold bullion coin and came upon a seller or two who were selling a whole bunch of them at a great price. (I.E. a small % below spot price). Nobody was bidding on them, so I placed my max bid right at the spot price of gold. For the entire auction I would be winning that ONE coin that I wanted. At the very end, however, one jerk always went in and bid a few bucks over spot on ALL of the coins that particular seller had for sale. (I wish I could say that it was a shill, but all evidence just said that it was a wealthy person who wanted to buy as much as they could, and didn't care if they would up winning ten coins since they'd just sell them again anyway). But that is always very frustrating. You just want ONE coin out of a whole slew of coins, and someone has to go in and snipe you at the last minute on all of the coins. It also happened to me tonight with some 1880 Morgans. I was bidding on some very nice looking 1880-O and 1880-S Morgans. I had my max at 21.00 dollars for each of them since they are raw, but from the photos look to be in very nice shape. I was winning the auctions for about 12.00 each until the last five minutes when I was suddenly outbid on the 1880-S and my max bid on the 1880-O was reached. Thankfully, I won the 1880-O and wound up driving up the price on the 1880-S to a foolishly high level.