Featured Wounded Civil War Vet Business Card - BIN or Auction?

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Bookahtoo, Feb 1, 2024.

  1. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    Who here is watching it?
     
  2. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    I confess, I am watching :)
     
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  3. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    I had to take the listing down - I misplaced the card.

    I can't believe it - worst misplacing I've ever done.
    I looked and looked, and decided it was better to take it down before it got any bids then to go forward and hope I find it before the listing ends, and then have to tell the winning buyer I can't find it.

    I know it's going to look really bad if and when I ever relist it. People are always suspicious of items that have been canceled and relisted.
     
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  4. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    where did u see it last ?
     
  5. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    On my kitchen table. It's my work table and I have my scanner hooked up.
     
  6. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    I know this is probably a dumb question, but did you check the scanner bed? I've done that!
     
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  7. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Thanks Marie - yes, I did.
    I haven't seen it for a while. I scanned it several weeks before I listed it. That's one reason it didn't get to the "listed" area. I didn't have it at hand when I wrote the listing. I just assumed it was in the small pile of stuff next to, or on top of the scanner that I was working on.
     
  8. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    unless you tossed it in a baggie for safe keeping.....it's still in the pile of things that you scanned at the same time....
    I would recon...
     
  9. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    Something very similar recently happened to me! I was going through old photos on my phone, having a purge. I came across some pics of a desirable Madame Alexander doll I acquired a couple years ago and decided to post them on an MA FB group to find out more about her. I received enthusiastic replies and good info... and an offer of $400! Of course I said yes... and then, despite hours of looking through my over-packed basement storage area, I just couldn't locate her. I'm sure the poor potential buyer thinks I'm nuts... she made it fairly clear that she wasn't very happy.
    I know that darn doll is here somewhere...
     
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  10. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Thanks komo.
    Yes - several times I picked up the piles intact and moved them to the living room because we had company for dinner, then moved them back. I was very careful
    I've already looked through 10 boxes of ephemera page by page, some boxes twice. But I know it's got to be in one of 3 rooms - it's less than 2" x 3" so who knows?
     
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  11. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Thanks bluumz. That's why I decided to cancel the listing. If it was something else I might have decided to put off canceling with the hope I'd find it before it was time to mail it. But it was stressing me out too much.
     
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  12. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    is it tacky.....or sticky.....?
     
  13. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I'm sure this is not your situation......just saying though......I have a blue plastic document wallet..with papers...for my eyes only...... 4 ever it was in my night table....one day...years ago...... xmas or New Years ..I decided to move it along with some gold & silver heirloom stuff , to my most secret hiding place..

    I lost track of the papers....looked where only I would put them......even there....and found nothing.
    Like u though....I knew where they should be.....and one day , some months ago....I was looking for something to show here......and low & behold...it was in my secret hiding place....but had slid to the back...the very back.....so I only found it ...with a deep dive....while looking for something else...

    Phew !!:banghead:

    I hope you find what you're looking for too !!!!!!!!!:happy:
     
  14. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Thank you komo.
    I'm sure I will.
    And let's face it, I couldn't have been too careful, or I wouldn't have lost it.
     
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  15. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    not lost.........misplaced.........for the time being!!:playful::kiss:
     
  16. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I had one pin here that dropped out of my fingers, bounced once, and vanished for a year and a half. Gave it away after that and thankfully it vanished when I was about to list it instead of once it went live.
     
  17. mirana

    mirana Well-Known Member

    Oh noooo... I hate when that happens. Hate it more when it's something I've bought. In which case I've begged the seller to contact me when they've found it but alas...nothing yet. :shifty:

    Along komo's line of thinking... Any chance you could have closed the scanner, or moved a book or something else that would cause a breeze to lift it off your work area? Slide down a crack between furniture? Stuck to the underside of another bit scanned at the same time? It's so small...

    This is why I do photos as a last drop directly into the listing from my phone and store the item directly after. I've definitely photo'd then listed later and while I've not lost anything, I have had to search and it was annoying. :banghead:
     
  18. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    So sorry to hear that, @Bookahtoo -- Same sort of thing has happened to me, and sounds like many others. Once I had ordered a photocopy of a document that might have been for a relative (genealogical research). It wasn't, so I offered on a genealogical forum to send it to somebody who was related. There was a taker, and suddenly .. poof! The photocopy was nowhere to be found. I'm sure the person was disappointed, and I was embarrassed, having just seen it a few days earlier. Many years later I found it in a file drawer. :confused:
     
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  19. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    I've looked through all the boxes upstairs at least twice. It certainly isn't where it should be. I have to just let it go. :sorry:
     
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  20. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    You'll find it when you're looking for something else, it'll be a very nice surprise :)
     
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