What was your worst impulsive overbudget/overspending incident on an auction?
Stone193
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It's been a while since we've talked about something like this and we have a lot of new people.
Mine was in 1994 - I bid the minimum on about 7 lots - it was at the National - I got ALL of them!
I received a bill for 5400$!!!!
My wife went all balistic on me.
I still have the cards today - it's turned out pretty darn well.
But at the moment - I was pretty messed up - break out the credit card!
What's yours?
mike
Mine was in 1994 - I bid the minimum on about 7 lots - it was at the National - I got ALL of them!
I received a bill for 5400$!!!!
My wife went all balistic on me.
I still have the cards today - it's turned out pretty darn well.
But at the moment - I was pretty messed up - break out the credit card!
What's yours?
mike
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There was one really nice high number, I still have it raw and it's probably a solid PSA 6, which I won and that's the only card I intended to buy. Making a long story short, I went into a feeding frenzy, and I bought 11 other high numbers rolling into the 4 figures total.
Loved the cards though! What the heck - it's only money. LOL
- Joe
Actually, I was cruising along at less half that price when someone tried to snipe the bid with a bid of $1800. Since my high bid was over 2k, I still won the auction. To this day, I believe it was a shill and I got ripped off.
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<< <i>What were they, Mike? >>
Drew
Not sure where the receipt is - I didn't keep records as well back then.
But the 4 I definitely remember:
1. 1932 US Caramel Cochrane PSA 8
2. 48B Baugh PSA 8
3. 57T #95 Mantle PSA 8 OC
4. 57T #407 Mantle/Berra PSA 8 OC
I can't remember what else? I'm gonna have to find that receipt I guess.
mike
<< <i>About 6 months ago I had a cold spell on ebay with my snipes over 5 weeks. I think I won like 2 items in 30 or so lots I bid on, was getting upset so I set up 12 snipes the next weekend, hoping I would win at least 2. Well I end up winning 10 of them with a bill around $1400 (mainly Clemente items), ouch when I was thinking of only spending $300. I was happy with the prices I paid, I was just not expecting to have to pay for all that at once. Glad I don't have a wife to report to, haha. >>
Sounds good!
Isn't it amazing how ya can go broke...saving money on ebay?
mike
bought a PSA 4 Walter johson and paid Cobb $$ for it duh