When will you overpay?

[andybecker]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Anytime I've won something in a Goodwin auction.

why is that? does goodwin have stuff you can't find elsewhere? i can understand overpaying for a card or a certain issue found in goodwin's auctions.....but, i'm obviously missing your point.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by andybecker

why is that? does goodwin have stuff you can't find elsewhere? i can understand overpaying for a card or a certain issue found in goodwin's auctions.....but, i'm obviously missing your point.

Stand by for the floodgates to be opened.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by andybecker

why is that? does goodwin have stuff you can't find elsewhere? i can understand overpaying for a card or a certain issue found in goodwin's auctions.....but, i'm obviously missing your point.

No, Goodwin's auctions don't contain items much different from most of the auctions out there. But it's the marketing. I've never seen anything like it. The marketing is so compelling that I'm forced, almost in a trance-like state, to pay 2 or 3 or 100x more than what the exact item went for just months before. I don't know how he does it but he sure is talented.

[barrysloate]

Jeff- I think it's the secret bidder list, the one nobody else has.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Jeff- I think it's the secret bidder list, the one nobody else has.

As of this time it's the double-secret bidder list.

There is a little known codicil in the N54 Constitution that grants the moderator virtually unlimited powers in times of chat board emergencies.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

As of this time it's the double-secret bidder list.

There is a little known codicil in the N54 Constitution that grants the moderator virtually unlimited powers in times of chat board emergencies.

Actually this is kind of funny but true. Fortunately with a few people gone there are little skirmeshes but no all out warfare like there used to be. It was pretty much me or them.....so here we are.

I did add something to the forum rules where I/we get a judgement call....it almost never needs to be used ...

"The board moderators have the authority, at their sole discretion, to ban anyone whom they deem detrimental to the welfare of the board."

This has happened in less than a handful of cases in almost 5 yrs....best regards

[FrankWakefield]

When I've had too much cash in hand, I've paid too much for a some cards that could have been obtained for less, with patience. I've outgrown that, but there was a day, and that was for cards that are regularly available.

As individual collecting evolves, we start wanting items that are seldom available. And that is when we pay too much, if it is that at all. The last card I bought for a significant price could fall into that category. I paid more than the guides suggest; but for me I didn't pay too much, for my desire or the card was much greater than the general collecting public's desire for the card. I'd have paid more... So this 'too much' thing is a bit relative. More than guide price, I've paid that lately... 'too much', not at all.

[baseballart]

If you use an auction service like gavelsnipe, you can actually figure out how much you overpaid by determining your maximum snipe to your actual winning bids. You can sort and total your winning bids, and then comparing that total to your maximum snipe. Warning: if you do it, the results will be scary. My maximum snipes were almost double my winning bid totals.

Max

[Jason Carota]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

When I've had too much cash in hand, I've paid too much for a some cards that could have been obtained for less, with patience. I've outgrown that...

That just about sums up my overspending habits. Still working on the outgrown part, but I'm getting better.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Leon

Actually this is kind of funny but true. Fortunately with a few people gone there are little skirmeshes but no all out warfare like there used to be. It was pretty much me or them.....so here we are.

I did add something to the forum rules where I/we get a judgement call....it almost never needs to be used ...

"The board moderators have the authority, at their sole discretion, to ban anyone whom they deem detrimental to the welfare of the board."

This has happened in less than a handful of cases in almost 5 yrs....best regards

So your nickname should change to "Dean Vernon Wormer"

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

So your nickname should change to "Dean Vernon Wormer"

Yes sir. And I am here to inform you, that you and your whole gang, have been on double secret probation!! And one of the best clips ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hnwvWhbJw

[Sixtofan]

I overpay when I get close to completing a set. My impatience gets the best of me and I just "have" to win the last five cards or so.

[E93]

Originally Posted by Sixtofan

I overpay when I get close to completing a set. My impatience gets the best of me and I just "have" to win the last five cards or so.

A couple of years ago at the National I found the last two cards I needed to complete my E94 set. Once the deal was done, I told the dealer I just completed the set. He, half-jokingly said, "Damn, if I knew they were the last two you needed, I would have charged more."
JimB

[brianp-beme]

I rarely overpay, because I am usually the underbidder. I make other people overpay.

Brian

[Leon]

I accidentally posted this in the 5k investment thread....but here is what I overpaid for today...As I said....now watch 50 of them come out at $5 each...

[barrysloate]

Interesting Leon...I wonder if Eddie Boland was the chase card, impossible to find thus ensuring few or any prizes would be given out.