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Originally Posted by Topnotchsy
In general I'm pretty good at enjoying the hobby without dwelling on items I missed.
Over the decades, there have been a couple of misses that sting more than others:
1)
A WWII Navy Game-Used jersey of Ted Williams was being sold at an obscure auction house. I bid in an advance and IIRC, was not around when it sold. (I think it ended Saturday, and as an Orthodo Jew, I observe Shabbat so I was not online)
Checking afterwards I saw that the final sale price was my bid, so I thought I had won, but I was informed that I had not won because my bid was through a 3rd party platform and those bids registers after the in-person bids (or something like that), and so I was not the winner.
Later the item sold at Goldin for 10x the price.
It wasn't about the loss of money. It was the fact that I had no chance of affording the jersey when it hit Goldin.
2)
I was away traveling when a Christie's auction was ending. There was a ball from the 1945 team that played in Venezuela which included Jackie Robinson right after he signed.
I was working off a phone with very poor internet connection and at the time, needed to do the math on the Buyer's Premium in my head.
I thought I was the high bidder but wasn't and lost the ball. I've never seen another like it in years of searching and it has not hit the market again (to the best of my knowledge).
Both items would have been absolute centerpieces for that area of collecting.
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I feel for you on your first story there. Nothing is worse than losing a desired item over Semantics. Especially when it was in your budget.