3 responses to “Stupid Me – Beating Myself Up”

1. 

   Maisy

   Tuesday, January 11, 2005

   The seller DID relist it. 🙂

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2. 

   Maisy

   Sunday, January 16, 2005

   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. 

   Maisy

   Thursday, February 17, 2005

   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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