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<p>[QUOTE="Restitutor, post: 4803731, member: 112621"]Oh I agree completely! When I had to stop bidding I just said to myself, given the rapidity in which paddle 2725 immediately outbid me with each click, there was no way a $2,500 bid wouldn’t be outdone. Had I done that though, my next bid would have been $3,000 and <i>maybe</i> that would have gotten it for me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly for me when I prepared for the auction I saw the $500 estimate and thought alright, I’ll save up $2k+ fees and that should be sufficient! I likely put far too much stock in the baseline estimate, but I had just started collecting at this point and hadn’t realized just how off estimates are! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Hopefully it will reappear for sale at some point in my lifetime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Restitutor, post: 4803731, member: 112621"]Oh I agree completely! When I had to stop bidding I just said to myself, given the rapidity in which paddle 2725 immediately outbid me with each click, there was no way a $2,500 bid wouldn’t be outdone. Had I done that though, my next bid would have been $3,000 and [I]maybe[/I] that would have gotten it for me :rolleyes: Sadly for me when I prepared for the auction I saw the $500 estimate and thought alright, I’ll save up $2k+ fees and that should be sufficient! I likely put far too much stock in the baseline estimate, but I had just started collecting at this point and hadn’t realized just how off estimates are! :dead: Hopefully it will reappear for sale at some point in my lifetime.[/QUOTE]
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