Unexpected costs

[QUOTE On the other hand I like to keep my face as CNG customer. My image is utmost important thing for me to keep.[/QUOTE]

Yea, I think you established this rather well haha!

I don’t think @mightyknighty is fake, but some aspects of his life are. Selective memory and replacement memory are prime suspects in a story like this. My best guess is that in the past he had financial troubles caused by his gambling addiction. This resulted in a divorce. Now newly single and recently bankrupt, he gets a second chance to run up new credit card debt, and is still very bitter at his ex-wife and created a caricature of her to try to feebly justify a past situation that he is recreating in his mind as a current one.

Our brains are extremely complex machines. In his mind this is really happening. But we know two things. He loves his coins (and previously other objects more than anything else in the world, and the guilt for everything that has been lost as a result is causing this fantastical story that we get the privilege of hearing.

 

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I don't know what to say except I think your problems stem from extreme materialism. I'm not sure how you fix that but insulting your wife (and all women) plus going into debt over coins doesn't seem like it

 

1. Explain what happened to CNG and see if you can withdraw your early bids...don't worry about "credibility" at a time like this...just be honest about it. Things happen and they understand. Besides, will be worse if you can't pay them...then you WILL lose credibility. As a back up, agree it's a small-to-zero chance those bids will hold, so not-to-worry.

2. "Something is rotten in Denmark," as the saying goes, with the repair/replacement estimate for your Porsche tranny, I really believe. You MUST get a second and/or a third estimate...it's a no-brainer. Or, depending on what the car is worth and how much you still owe, let it go and cut your losses...maybe you can get something for the rest of it...and then come down a few notches by getting a much less expensive car...my two sense (2c) worth.

 

I haven't read all of th entries, but what I read makes me wonder about the information about the cost of the car being repaired. When I was a lot younger, married and 3 kids. I had a great job that paid pretty good. (I'm a CPA and worked for the state and I also am very busy during tax season.) My wife was a nurse and she worked overtime. The reason we did it, was to pay off our house and all of our bills. She drove a Buick and I drove a truck. When our home and everything else was paid off, we decided to travel to Europe for a long trip. Grandma and Grandpa took care of the children (12-girl, 10-boy, and 5-girl). We were having a time of our life, something we couldn't do when we were in college. After about a week, my wife got real sick. We thought it was adjusting to the food. Luckily, we were able to find a doctor in Germany. Test after test, he couldn't find what was wrong. Finally, he sent us to Oncologist. After a few more tests, we met with the doctor and found out that my wife had pancreatic cancer. He recommended a doctor in Italy. After a few more tests, he confirmed what the first doctor had told us. As you can imagine, we were on the first airplane home. My wife quit her job and I got leave from mine. We spent the whole time playing with our kids and seeing our friends. I sold everything I could without breaking the bank so that we could take our children to Disney World and many other places. I sold my whole collection to a local dealer. (I think that he paid too much, but I had been dealing with him for years. I enjoyed the years of my coin collection, but when it came to something or someone that I really loved, I found that the next three month with my family was more valuable than my coins. I lost my wife, July 2, 1994. The memories are in my heart and my pictures are in a closed now. I could always start my coin collection again, which I have and I have enjoyed every coin I got again. On November 22, 1996, I met a woman I knew before I married my wife. A friend of mine suggested that I call her. I couldn't believe she wasn't married and have 6 children. He gave me her phone number and after a couple of weeks, I finally called her and asked her for a date. We dated for 10 months and I finally asked her to marry me. I gave her a diamond and she said "Yes!" She had been teaching high school English and living with her mother. I found out later, she put the ring in a draw because she didn't want her students asking questions. Anyway, we got married. I grew to love her mother, although it took a while. I found out later that her father (who also died of cancer.) had a small coin collection.
I am sorry for my entry. I think you should sell whatever you can to finance the cost to repair your Porsche. Starting over your coin collection will be enjoyable and you will find that, like marriage, the second time, you will learn how to start your collection again. Best of Luck!!

 

Thank you, Jim, for sharing your story. It's nice to be reminded, every now and then, that some things are more important than coins.

 

Don't be sorry, but let me say thank you for sharing this personal story.

 

Going into debt to buy coins is a great idea. Consider remortgaging your house.

Fear is a terrific motivator

 

Do fax machines still exist? I haven't seen one since the 20th century apart from on trips to Japan

 

You should start bragging about your ancient coins more in public. Level the playing field.

 

I have one at the house thru the scanner/printer. FedEx and UPS
stores provide the service. Both ways. Independent shipping stores
usually provide the service. Most large numismatic auction companies
have fax numbers. Not very popular these days, but for the OP's
situation it might help. @Andrew McCabe

 

This troll has been on Cointalk under several different names, one of which is Arash, also the name he went by on FORVM. Arash managed to get himself banned from multiple coin forums for this trolling, an impressive feat not achieved by many others. I'm reasonably confident of this but am not willing to share the proof publicly. If a moderator or admin wants proof, please PM me.

 

It's very clear from certain oddities of syntax that English is not his first language, not that that proves anything in particular.

 

First off, yes, as a matter of fact. Many of us here spend more than 5K a year with the complete blessing of our family. Thirty years ago, I was told by a dealer that a 'serious' collector was one that spent over $1K a year on coins. I suspect the CNG number today is higher??? There are ancient coin dealers who rarely have any coins for sale that are less than $1k. If you have such great coins, sell some of them for 1/4 what you paid and raise the $35k. You can choose which toy to keep but can not have the car, the coins and the wife. Many of us have had to sell coins for a loss when we discovered ourselves overextended. You will survive that. I hear that divorce is expensive so your wife might get the coins in the settlement. You may as well sell now. Toy cars are expensive. Ex-wives?

I am not a woman but find this matter as offensive as Donna did. Your wife will have no trouble finding a lawyer who will use your attitude against you and take the coins. If you are lucky, she will get the car, too. I never owned a Porsche but I did have a '71 Audi that ate two transmissions and one engine in four years. Interestingly, that was about the time I sold my 150 ancient coin collection.

I had not thought of the troll possibility but I have known several people every bit as dumb as this. I recall one guy that traded trophy wives twice and had two different judges give each half his income. I don't know how that worked out for him in the long run since he lost his job because the 'situation' was deemed a security risk. $4000 is not a lot of money in the subset of people who bid heavily on CNG sales. If you don't have $4000 to pay for the coins, tell CNG the situation and hope that they will take you back after both the car and the wife are just memories.

 

If you can't afford your lifestyle, make more money.

I don't put myself in positions like yours OP. I don't purchase what I can't or won't afford. I'm also adequately insured and maintain a healthy liquid reserve to cushion for unforeseen events.

Veblen goods don't impress me. If they did, I would finance an Aston Martin Vanquish and drive it instead of my old Toyota Truck that has been long ago bought and paid for.

I prefer to live somewhere in the middle of being a miser and a spendthrift.

If you came here looking for advice, the best advice would be: You ought to do some serious soul-searching.

If you came here looking for empathy, my response would be: Go troll somewhere else. Your story is about as believable as a Nigerian lottery win.

 

Wait a couple of days until you are outbid, that’s what happens to me.

 

Whether it's trolling or sharing TMI, this has to be the oddest thread I've seen on CT.

 

LOL, same TROLL, different avatar... it’s back.

Y’all been fooled again.

Report and Ignore.

He has fed off y’all for several posts and pages so far.


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The psyche of these people really intrigues me.

 

Is that supposed to be an image of a troll? LOL.

He must be pretty happy, successfully provoking well over 100 responses, continuing long after he's stopped posting himself. A persona displaying incredible stupidity, salted with a few direct misogynistic insults, will have that effect, whether it's feigned or not.

 

Eh, at least it has showed that the majority of the people are decent here