My perfect score at online only auction!

Nuffin! Yes this is my first time bidding in an online-only auction run by a regular auction house. Score zero for 6. Fine, I was kinda getting my feet wet, not really in love with any item, but bid on 6 items.

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Two items I really didn't care about but could use, I put down the starting bid and never increased even after the "you were outbid, please bid a minimum of ...." Three more, I upped my bid after each outbid email a few times then decided if I was serious about a nice Naval ordnance ledger book, I'd better let those other three go, and did. I chased the book a good ways over the starting bid, ate lunch, came back to the 'puter to find bidding closed and myself the underbidder. Fine-saved me a good chunk of change. Plus I'm guessing a Museum group I know bought it, and if so I know I can just go there and ask to copy the ledger, I don't have to own it personally.

So much for my initiation into online-only auctions-I still prefer bidding on the phone or in person!

 

I've bought a few times from online real auction house auctions. The hardest part I found was having to contact someone and arrange my own shipping.

 

I bid on, and won, a little brass duck in Robin's last auction, and she personally hooked me up with easy shipping! It helps to know the boss-lady!

I had a blast... felt like a behind-the-scenes-billionaire bidding via my mouthpiece minion on million-dollar rarities, confident that the world-renowned Head Auctioneer, a personal associate, will ensure my anonymity and safe, secret transport of my purchases!

 

G2-congrats!

 

Thank you, dah-ling!

 

G2... Here you are.... G7

 

That's terrific, WTK! If Mexico were in the G7, I'd swear that was my Uncle Luisenrique next to the nearest OIL sign!

 

Oh my. You have me rolling. Thank you Gila you are too too kind. LOL! I am so glad you got your duck. ;-) He is a nice duck.

 

Gila see above I was trying to reply to you but somehow messed it all up. Sorry guys. I try.

 

Hey, Boss Lady! I'm coolio as long as you remember me and San Ex when you become a mogul.

 

Strangest coincidence occurred in this auction, and I just found out at a gun club meeting last night. The friend who owns the small bronze cannon I'm researching in another thread-comes up to me and asks if I'm the one who outbid him for a certain naval ordnance ledger book! I said no, in fact I had bid on it but someone else won it and I was underbidder. So here we were, collectors in different mid-Atlantic states, bidding on one item in an online auction out of an auction house in the northeast. But we both lost it.

 

You called me WTK....(WantToKnow)..... It is good I am NOT a WantToFind!!!

 

I got it right!!!

 

I knew YOU will! Same scent of humor....

 

We're a real pair, WTK.