Props to Al and his team on another great auction and congrats on your 1st AH win Jeff, great pick ups all around. I love Al's auctions, the material is so varied and interesting, you can spend $100 or $100,000.
For me it's always the same, preview the auction, put 20 cards on my watch list along with placeholder bids, over the next couple of weeks think about those 20 cards and why I want them in my collection and mentally rank them 1-20 from "if I could only pick one" to "meh, it'd be nice to have". Some expensive, some under a few hundred bucks. I also keep a few cards on that list to check if they're under market on auction night. On auction night it always comes down to a balance between my list and finances.
Fortunately, and thanks to my consignments, I was able to hit items 1-4 on my list. Doesn't happen often.
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