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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9838423, member: 10944"]I bought a presidential signature at auction once. Someone chased the bidding up to $700 or so on me. Just me and one other bidder going back and forth until he bailed out at around $700 or so. It was a local/regional auction house. Once I had the item I listed it on eBay and another user contacted me and let me know he wanted to buy it and that he was the under bidder in the original auction. He offered me a decent amount over the auction price but after auction and eBay fees not much of a profit. He finally ended up buying it for well over $1,000 more than the auction ending price. Turns out he had collected every single presidential signature other than that one. It was the only hole in his collection. Very nice guy and ended up trading me another political related signature in addition to the amount he paid for the item, a cash + trade type scenario. Sometimes you regret not bidding more in an auction and this was one of those scenarios.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9838423, member: 10944"]I bought a presidential signature at auction once. Someone chased the bidding up to $700 or so on me. Just me and one other bidder going back and forth until he bailed out at around $700 or so. It was a local/regional auction house. Once I had the item I listed it on eBay and another user contacted me and let me know he wanted to buy it and that he was the under bidder in the original auction. He offered me a decent amount over the auction price but after auction and eBay fees not much of a profit. He finally ended up buying it for well over $1,000 more than the auction ending price. Turns out he had collected every single presidential signature other than that one. It was the only hole in his collection. Very nice guy and ended up trading me another political related signature in addition to the amount he paid for the item, a cash + trade type scenario. Sometimes you regret not bidding more in an auction and this was one of those scenarios.[/QUOTE]
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