How about this one?
Yesterday I saw a card offered on eBay with a BIN of $99.99. That was a good, but not jaw-dropping, price. I would have paid it, but as a Chicago resident, as of Jan. 1 I'm paying 10.25% tax on every. single. card. I buy, thanks to our politicians. So I offered $90 to offset that. Figured it would either get accepted or a counter at $95, and done deal. Or, of course, someone could pull the trigger on the BIN.
What I did not expect was to see an email that the card had sold at $87. I contacted the seller to ask if he got my (higher) offer. Yeah, he said - but the other guy offered first, and they were close enough, so I just sold it to him.
Fair enough, I responded, but I hope you can understand how that's frustrating from a buyer's perspective. He said he understood that it wasn't logical, but essentially that's what I get for not taking the BIN. "You left it in the judge's hands."
OK, but so did the other guy, and you rewarded him for making the lower offer??
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