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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well guess that will just UP the price, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why not prebid maximum price?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh bother. This is too frequent of late. Boo Hoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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. \ud83d\ude41 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-obsessing-over"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/P8260001.jpg?fit=600%2C818&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":433,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2008\/07\/15\/blueberry-bear-coca-cola\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":0},"title":"Blueberry Bear Coca Cola","author":"Maisy","date":"Tuesday, July 15, 2008","format":"gallery","excerpt":"This is one of my favorite photos of my favorite cat. 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