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I was wondering today if anyone else on here has lost an auction or had a coin deal fall through and has then gone on and purchased another coin that they really didn't want, but bought it as a consolation for not getting the first one?
I thinking about this since that happened to me this week. Edited by The Silver Searcher
01/23/2013 7:30 pm
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Yup, guilty as charged.  Edited by CoinsKelly
01/23/2013 7:37 pm
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Always have a Plan B coin pre-rationalized, so you don't have to feel like this.
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Yup, me too! Getting beat out with 1 second left on ebay really drives me nuts  usually I bid with my phone and if there's less than 4 seconds left my bid won't go through in time, so I don't know how people beat me with 1 second.. But after something like that sometimes I either overpay on a buy it now or end up with a coin I like less...  |
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SilverSearcher, I'm not sure why but reading that really cracked me up. Some things about human nature kill me.  |
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I also agree with SsuperDdave, in the last month or so I've been smarter (I like to believe so at least, lol) and had a few backup plan on all my purchase's.
(Although it still drives me crazy when I get out bid by like a buck (that I easily/willingly would have paid) on a coin I fall in love with)
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Pillar of the Community
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It's more like I get the same basic thing I wanted, but pay more for it after I lost Auction #1 (Plan A) and won Auction #2 (Plan B). |
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I have done this in the past...but I am trying to get better about NOT doing it anymore. Most recent was that I lost out on a 1938 D/S Buffalo nickel and would up springing on a 2001-D PCGS Silver Buffalo (I've been wanting one of these for a long time).  We all fall every once in a while.  Edited by oih82w8
01/23/2013 11:22 pm
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I've been guilty of doing that numerous times in my early collecting days. Then realized I ended up settling for just "something" I can hold on to at the end of the day. I've since redirected that urge to settle and usually save more bucks for what I really want.
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I try and have a few picked out I like or just wait for another to come. I've gotten ones that werent more first choice after losing out, but I will just move on to a different series or coin if the only ones left are the ones I dont want
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Guilty also. But trying to get better at accepting it as part of the game and not a catastrophic lost opportunity. I pre-bid in an online auction the other day for an NGC MS 68 Grizzly that I really wanted for my Wildlife collection. Couldn't be online for the live auction. I was livid the next morning when, despite the rules of the auction stated that all bids on coins $20-$50 would be in $1 increments , I lost the coin by a last second 50 cent bid. I called the auction house to complain, he stated that they only make 10% from every lot and that he needs to take any bid he gets. I informed him that I had bid on won numerous coins from him and hoped that the 5 cents added profit he made was worth losing a long time customer over. He offered me an ICG MS 67 for the same $37 I had bid on the other Grizzly. I really didn't want that coin, but still a great deal right ? I declined on principle. Quote:
Always have a Plan B coin pre-rationalized, so you don't have to feel like this. Yeah but isn't it a killer when your " plan B " comes up for bid before the coin you really want ? |
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Ughh... I haven't done that.... yet and I doubt I will. However, I know the sinking feeling of going in, waiting for an auction on ebay and then poof you get outbid in the last 2 secs. I had my eyes on a 2013 Proof Cheetah silver 1 oz Rwanda wildlife series. I waited and waited until the day of the auction. I was ready. I was going to outbid every single person no matter how high the auction went, I was going full blast all out nuclear war attack for it. well... :/ ..... I was outbid. I was like what the heck.. didn't feel great to spend all that time waiting and bidding aggressively. So, after that. I went back to ebay and found someone who had one Buy it Now and paid like 15 bucks MORE than even the auction. Did I overpay? Yes I am sure. Do I care? NO. I wanted that coin and after not being able to do so at auction I went and paid threw the nose. BTW those Cheetahs are now extinct, the proof ones that is. |
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I always have at least 10-15 CW tokens that I'm watching at any given time in my E-Bay. Out of those, I pare down to the top 5 that I would buy. I put in the amount I am willing to bid and if I get it, great. If not, there are always more to bid on. You win some, you lose some. I know the ones that I win, I've gotten a good deal on.
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No. I let the perfect Twenty Cent coin get away from me and I have yet to find a suitable replacement.  |
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