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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3169353, member: 26302"]Yes but...</p><p><br /></p><p>I think we have all been in auctions where the totality of your bid shocks you. That is where I was at. I backed off on some lots simply because if I would have won everything I had bid on it would have been twice my monthly house payment. If, however, I was able to sit at my computer and adjust my bids on later lots knowing my total bill would not be nearly as catastrophic as I thought, (since by then a few higher ticket items were already out of reach), I am sure I would have increased my later lot prices I would be willing to go. In the hypothetical $400 lot, I would have been willing to go $700, (that is what they were worth to me), but scaled it down due to fear of being "lucky" and having a huge bill be due.</p><p><br /></p><p>Make sense? Certain auctions simply hit me all at once, and the totality of my "potential" bill scares me and makes me back off all bids.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3169353, member: 26302"]Yes but... I think we have all been in auctions where the totality of your bid shocks you. That is where I was at. I backed off on some lots simply because if I would have won everything I had bid on it would have been twice my monthly house payment. If, however, I was able to sit at my computer and adjust my bids on later lots knowing my total bill would not be nearly as catastrophic as I thought, (since by then a few higher ticket items were already out of reach), I am sure I would have increased my later lot prices I would be willing to go. In the hypothetical $400 lot, I would have been willing to go $700, (that is what they were worth to me), but scaled it down due to fear of being "lucky" and having a huge bill be due. Make sense? Certain auctions simply hit me all at once, and the totality of my "potential" bill scares me and makes me back off all bids.[/QUOTE]
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