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Don't know who is more anxious...

DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
edited November 2016 in General Discussion
...watching an auction. The sole bidder hoping for a deal or the seller hoping it doesn't sell for the starting price.
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Too old to live...too young to die...
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  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd be nervous if it was starting at a penny and only one bid that wouldn't even pay for a stamp lol.
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bump it up to around six hundred that way you know you will win no matter what and if no one else bids you still get it cheap :)

    quote:Originally posted by Doc
    ...watching an auction. The sole bidder hoping for a deal or the seller hoping it doesn't sell for the starting price.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ruger41
    I'd be nervous if it was starting at a penny and only one bid that wouldn't even pay for a stamp lol.


    If I won a gun for $0.01 due to no bids I would ask the seller to relist for an agreed upon price. I like good deals and am a cheapskate but I'm not taking advantage of anyone.
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  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would too if all it was was a penny win. But I bet that doesn't happen too often.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm the only bidder on an auction and I have been waiting 5 days for it too end.[}:)]
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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
    edited November -1
    If both the buyer and seller were equally informed as to the true value of the item then graphing their respective anxiety levels would show a convergence as deviation from true value approached zero.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a bid on a gun for 10 bucks once. In the last 15 minuets, someone outbid me. I let it go to see what would happen. It ended and a week later, the same guy that was selling the gun, relisted it. Hmmmmmm, wonder who the other bidder was.[:0] I did end up winning the gun a second time around, but for a lot more. He listed with a reserve the second time around. Still got a great deal. Oakie. PS, forgot to add, it was not GB. This was many moons ago.
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  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    might be the bidders wife, after he told her he wasn't buying any more guns, (Hypothetical situation...)
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  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was once the sole bidder on a rifle and the selling prices was very low. I offered the seller the chance to cancel but he insisted on completing the transaction. Big seller with thousands of sales.

    Another time I won on one bid and I really thought the starting price was a fair value but the seller complained in several emails until I told him to pay the auction fee and keep the rifle. He went ahead and completed.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got a sweet Springfield SS 1911 LNIB for under 500 bucks from Kasey, it had everything in the box, papers magazines and holster. It is the best deal I ever got on GB auctions.

    I lose a lot of auctions because I bid way too low and my airplane needs my money now. [:I][:)]
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    Congrats on your new gun,,,[^][^][^][^][^]
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