Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!
The last auction I bid on finally out bid me-THANK GOD!!!
Do any of you ever sit in front of the computer drinking and then the next morning realize that it might not really be a good idea to have 3 bids working-even though they are all fairly low but over reserve?? The last one, I sweated out for 5 days!! Crap-If I'd have won all of them I would'a had to come up with close to $1900!
(Course I would have three neat guns-but it's tough to justify a stainless Marlin guide gun, a 8 3/8 nickle 27 and a Super Alaskan Redhawk all at once )
Note to self-NO BWD!!

Booze has a similar effect while out in a tavern evaluating a companion for the evening...

$1900 is a "mere bag of shells" for a lawya!!
(and I was quoting Jackie Gleason from "The Honeymooners")

Caj,
Been there, done that, have the scars.
Bid almost $4500. a couple years ago on an auction I new I would NEVER win. Praying for three days did no good. I had to come up with the dough. The seller was sympathetic, to a point. I made good on the deal and it took me @ four years to recoup my money but I did make a small profit.

Lesson semi-learned, at least as far as safe queens are concerned.

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Crap-If I'd have won all of them I would'a had to come up with close to $1900!

Just think how some of your clients would have been sweating if you had won all three!!!

Or maybe you if they were pro-bono!

Drinking+Bidding=PAIN!! Been there, done that! My best friend got a "really good deal" on an old 9mm Combat Commander while too intoxicated to see the photos on GB well enough to realize that it was a genuine beater, I mean, UUUUUGGGGLEEEEEEE!!! What he paid should have bought about 4 like it. Like the man he is, he bucked up, paid, and learned a lesson. I've considered a breathalyzer interlock on my keyboard!

Remember when your friends would be "drunk and dialing" and you'd get calls in the middle of the night:

"Love ya, man!!! You gotta get down here! It's, like awesome, man!!!"

Well, I have a pal who sits in front of his computer, drink in hand, and bids on stuff--he bought a 10K boat, a 2002 GEO Tracker, a pair of engraved, commemorative Marlin 45-70s, a couple of high-end Randall knives, a Winchester 94, etc., etc., etc.

I think it's fun to watch--as long as it ain't me!!

Tim

Where are the drunk bidders when I auction something?

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Originally posted by jeremyws1:
Where are the drunk bidders when I auction something?

Time your auctions so there is less than 24 hours remaining around 2200 hours on a Friday night-us drunks tend to react when we think we're about to miss out on a deal

I learned long ago --- NO booze when typing on a forum or NO booze when visiting an auction online. Booze, for me, is the 'mother's milk' of rationalizing my dire need for something or the ease in paying.

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Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:

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Originally posted by jeremyws1:
Where are the drunk bidders when I auction something?

Time your auctions so there is less than 24 hours remaining around 2200 hours on a Friday night-us drunks tend to react when we think we're about to miss out on a deal

HAHA...great idea!

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Do any of you ever sit in front of the computer drinking and then the next morning realize that it might not really be a good idea to have........

Been there and done that. I have had to figure out how to explain the new gun a few times. You'd think I would learn at some point.

"Friends don't let friends bid drunk"
PSI

Ah Caje,

Just call Charlie S. to see if he knows of a few customers and you can bid on a lot more stuff.
$1900 really isn't that much money.

It don't just happen on auction sites!
It happened to me on this site.
After asking about 1911 pistols ,someone e-mailed me saying they had one to get rid of.
So he named a price and I told him I'd take it.
He didn't get back to me for a couple of days so I thought he changed his mind(no big deal)
So in the meantime sombody else lists a 2nd model hand ejector in the classifieds for a good price THEN LOWERS IT!!!!
So I tell him if he still has it I would take it.(done deal)
Then that night the guy with the 1911 calls and wants to finnish the deal I e-mailed him about me wanting his gun.
Sooooooooo, to make a long story short I got both guns for good deals.
I just didn't plan on spending that money at the time.


Willy