Be careful when making offers "just for giggles"...

... you never know when one might be accepted. 
I had made an offer on this Graubunden piece back in July. Nice rainbow toning. 2,000 pieces originally minted, with over 1,300 melted... I imagine not too many examples extant after all this time.
My offer of $200 below his ask was pretty much laughed at.
Fast forward 7 months. The piece has increased $100 in XF, and increased $250 in UNC in the new 19th Century Krause. I figure it's an AU piece minimum.
So I make a fresh offer just to see if the intervening period had loosened his pricing at all, but based on previous communication I just assumed he'd deny again or counteroffer...
Oops. Offer accepted. I hadn't really planned on this budgetwise.
Looks like I'll be selling off more stuff...


I had made an offer on this Graubunden piece back in July. Nice rainbow toning. 2,000 pieces originally minted, with over 1,300 melted... I imagine not too many examples extant after all this time.
My offer of $200 below his ask was pretty much laughed at.
Fast forward 7 months. The piece has increased $100 in XF, and increased $250 in UNC in the new 19th Century Krause. I figure it's an AU piece minimum.
So I make a fresh offer just to see if the intervening period had loosened his pricing at all, but based on previous communication I just assumed he'd deny again or counteroffer...
Oops. Offer accepted. I hadn't really planned on this budgetwise.

Looks like I'll be selling off more stuff...

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Nice buy. Quality over quantity any day in my book!
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What I did was place a $9,350 bid (not what I would consider "giggles" but I'm sure j-Inumismatique giggled). Gotta watch that comma/period! I never noticed the error and won the item for $250+ shortly the next morning. I was probably lucky but not pleased... most I would have gone was $100- could have been a whole lot more!!
Thankfully, after a friendly negotiation, he kept the art plaque and gave me good feedback, I rendered the same unto him plus US$25.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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Yes, it could have.
Lessons not learned over and over again are the most important ones. Sh*t comes at you from left field when you least expect it.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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