Stupid Me – Beating Myself Up

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So, while wasting time until an auction was nearer to it’s end, I wrote the previous post. Finished it, published it. Said OOPS MY AUCTION and sure enough, it was over. 🙁

It was for a NEW bear that’s my OLD bear. I mean, my very first Boyd’s Bear, loved and smooshed before I “knew what a Boyd’s Bear was” in 1995. I only realized it later when I started collecting Boyd’s when a Dillard’s frequent browsing shopper. Dink is my bears name. He was retired in 1997. My Dink has no tag. I don’t know if he came with one on, but if he did, I discarded it without knowing a thing.

So this auction was for a new, never used Dink with tag. Hmph. I wanted him and was meant to get him. No one bid on him. He could have been mine!

So the seller had no contact on that page. So I pleadedly asked a Q on another auction, are you going to re-list Dink?

Well guess that will just UP the price, eh?

I have missed other auctions because of forgotten ending times. I’ve felt like “asking” about the item when it didn’t get bid on and wasn’t ever re-listed. But I never have before today, seeing as it would seem “I’m desperate for it and will pay a high price to get it cause I want it!”

Since one doesn’t pre-bid it means they are waiting to get it cheaper at the end, right? Right! It’s not about winning to me, it’s about WINNING with the LOWEST PRICE. We aren’t made of money, and since I have a problem with “time”, it’s an ethereal thing, I can have my auction page open and bury it with myriads of other pages, browsers and emails and Photoshop, etc.

I get busy doing that stuff, or go somewhere else in the house. The closer I am to the computer, the higher the chance is that “I will forget about the auction”.

Why not prebid maximum price?

Well because if NO bid has been place yet, the last thing I want to do is bid on something and invite someone to overbid me. If I snipe in at the end over someone else, then I have a chance of winning if my maximum is higher than theirs. If I wait and submit first bid on the auction until the last minute counting down, then most likely I’m the only one trying it, and if not, which I’ve never found to be the case in my last second bids on items with no bids yet, then my bid max may be higher since I have a super wierd thinking pattern on what price to bid usually.

So that defeats me when attention span goes off to the circus and forgets about the show on broadway it’s supposed to perform in.

Oh bother. This is too frequent of late. Boo Hoo.

Maisy

3 responses to “Stupid Me – Beating Myself Up”

  1. Marysue Avatar
    Marysue

    The seller DID relist it. 🙂

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  2. Marysue Avatar
    Marysue

    But who cares about a relisting. Dingbats come and jack up the price then some sniper steals it at the end.

    If someone doesn’t jack up the price, said sniper ususally isn’t able to snipe it away from me. But see, my Max Price I had in there early so that I wouldn’t forget about this auction BY ACCIDENT again.

    I normally don’t bid early. Anyhow, it didn’t seem unsafe, as there was little interest in this bear before. Right? So a cheap start price got jacked up only the last few hours by a “0” bidder. I’m looking into it. It seems that this person takes the “I will bid in tiny increments one after the other until I’m on top” approach, and that is an ugly way to do business. In any case, Hurray for the seller, 22.10 for the final auction price. I didn’t want to pay that much anyhow. My Max Price was 16.00. That should have worked fine. But pricejacker put it past that. So my next bid could be about 17.50, but that’s silly. I did “22.00” for a second Max Price, with an hour on the auction to go. Did I care about it? Yes. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. This was a product I was emotionally involved with. Stupid. Yeah.

    I figured that said pricejacker would jack it up again, or not. I’d either lose it and they’d get it for lots more, or I’d get it for no more than current bid maybe.

    Then in comes someone and bids “22.10” or whatever Max Price. I thought it went in increments higher than “.10” but whatever.

    Someone decided it was worth more than that and wanted it badly, or just decided they wanted it, not knowing that the person with High Bid right before auction end which they were going to snipe it from had a 1995 reason for wanting it. She has a Dink, no tags, loved to smooshed fur. Love it, wanted Twin Newbie to display in honor of First Every Bought Boyd’s Bear in her collection.

    Sob story. For me. New with tags Dink. Lost. PriceJacker/Snipe event.

    I don’t mind snipers. I am one. I mind PriceJackers. Back to the Matrix-Like scanning for another NEW DINK. 🙁

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  3. Marysue (Maisy) Avatar
    Marysue (Maisy)

    I finally got a new Dink. Another auction of a new Dink went up and it was eBay’s slow poke processing that had me lose that one.

    Then finally another new one was listed. I waited and waited for the last one minute of the auction and won it, for $10. I’d rather have had it for $5, but double that works out alright. The bear was $21 originally, something around that price.

    Dink is in my home now. Well, two Dinks. Old smooshed up fur Dink, and brand spanking new Dink.

    I spent the last year looking for my bear on Ebay, on the internet anywhere. Why suddenly the last few months a certain seller has had new Dink’s available one after the other here and there … I can’t say, but I find it a bit odd.

    Let’s put it this way: I can search for this bear online, and find the only references to him on peoples text lists of their Boyd’s Bears for sale. No pictures.

    Then the next thing that comes up in search is “Winkie and Dink as Lambs” figurine. That’s not the right thing.

    From there you might find one of my posts on one of my sites talking about Dink.

    Then anything else refers to any current Dink Ebay auction, and then just nothing relative, only the name DINK but not referring to the Boyd’s Bear “dink”.

    This bear just means silly things for me since it’s the first Boyd’s Bear I ever bought and I didn’t know it at the time. He’s smooshed and I just wanted to get another of him, in a more pristine condition, with a hang tag.

    My original Dink is probably an older run. He was made from 1995-1997 and retired then. My Dink was bought in Dillards in 1995. His blue bow is a satiny blue ribbon. The new Dink I just got has a wide blue gross-grain ribbon. The Blue is basically the same, the material is completely different. Of course, I have no way to verify that my original Dink’s ribbon is meant for him. I bought him with it on. But maybe someone switched it, you never know until presented with absolute evidence.

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