Accidental over-bidding stories

[JustinD]

Well I sorta dinged myself in the pocketbook last night by misjudging that a crazy bidder was out there.

I placed a gavelsnipe proxy way higher than I should have thinking it would never get near that high but tossed in 200 bucks out of silly habit.

I thought the card just may come close to 30 or 40 bucks but at the last second a sniper hit it with 190 likely thinking no one would top that.

Well I did.

Lesson learned on lazy bidding.

Anyone else have dumb lessons learned?

[BruceinGa]

A few years ago I left out a decimal point. It took me a little while before I found that I could cancel that bid.
Now I double and triple check.

[pawpawdiv9]

No, but I apparently 'gave' someone a lesson last night in a PWCC auction.
A card I wanted, I set a crazy snipe on. 150+ than previous sale. Heck I gota say it was a PSA 10, so a registry guy must of wanted it more than me.
No worries, I find another.

[jhs5120]

I was on the receiving end once. I consigned a 1935 Shutter-Johnson Joe Cronin card to PWCC which sold for $787. The buyer emailed PWCC and said it was a bidding mistake and never paid. The card sold for only $32 the second time around.

[FourStrikes]

Originally Posted by jhs5120

I was on the receiving end once. I consigned a 1935 Shutter-Johnson Joe Cronin card to PWCC which sold for $787. The buyer emailed PWCC and said it was a bidding mistake and never paid. The card sold for only $32 the second time around.

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[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by jhs5120

I was on the receiving end once. I consigned a 1935 Shutter-Johnson Joe Cronin card to PWCC which sold for $787. The buyer emailed PWCC and said it was a bidding mistake and never paid. The card sold for only $32 the second time around.

Similar story here with one of my own auctions. This time last year with a Roger Maris newspaper and a bidding war. Guy who won, decided right after he won that he had made a mistake on the bidding, 3 days after he put his bid in. Decided he wasn't going to pay for it unless I sold it to him for $450+ less then the final bid.

Put it up again, blocked him, the underbidder also disappeared, and it went for about $450+ less next time around.

Did a little digging, realized the guy bragged about having several copies of that issue already, and it struck me that he may have been artificially enhancing the results of that item in ended auctions, in order to make his copies appear more valuable.

Since, even though I hung a unpaid item notice on this guys neck for this item (which he did not like at all), it still showed in the SOLD auction section as a realized price.

[JustinD]

Proud to say I have never withdrawn a bid and never non-paid in my life.

It's going to end that way too as my mistakes are always mine.

[Sean]

I let my girlfriend use my ebay account. The first bid she made was supposed to be $12.00 for a pair of shoes. She left out the decimal point. We won the shoes for $130. Luckily the seller let us out and sold the shoes to the underbidder.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

No, but I apparently 'gave' someone a lesson last night in a PWCC auction.
A card I wanted, I set a crazy snipe on. 150+ than previous sale. Heck I gota say it was a PSA 10, so a registry guy must of wanted it more than me.
No worries, I find another.

That may have been me, lol.

Was this modern, like 1982 modern?

[pawpawdiv9]

it was a 1982 RC ripken

[midmo]

When I was about 16 I was at an estate auction and there was a small binder of silver pesos (which I knew nothing about). I bid something like $6 or $7 and won. I thought cool, that has to be a great deal. Then he quickly added them up. The bid price was for each coin individually, not the complete binder. It totaled well over $100. I quickly learned to know exactly what you're bidding on.

[pete zouras]

It happened to me recently when I put what I thought was a proxy bid (in a major AH) but turned out it was the bid (about $50 higher than the next highest bid). No harm no foul, I like the card and next time I won't make the same mistake.

[Beatles Guy]

Originally Posted by midmo

When I was about 16 I was at an estate auction and there was a small binder of silver pesos (which I knew nothing about). I bid something like $6 or $7 and won. I thought cool, that has to be a great deal. Then he quickly added them up. The bid price was for each coin individually, not the complete binder. It totaled well over $100. I quickly learned to know exactly what you're bidding on.

I've done that before in my early auction years. I've learned to verify with the auctioneer whether it's a group price or by the piece

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

it was a 1982 RC ripken

Well close, but mine was an even more common 82, lol