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<p>[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1418166, member: 25270"]I'm going to be kicking myself over this one for awhile. I was doing my usual eBay search this morning, world coins under $5 ending soonest, and at the top of the list is a Mexico 1929 2 centavos. Well, Mexico is a country I'm trying to get a full 20th century collection for, and this is the only 2 centavo I need, because it is $85 at the lowest grade in the book. The bid was at 99 cents with less than a minute left. So I'm kind of panicking trying to look at this to see what the catch is, and as there's 5 seconds left I enter a bid of $15. It says "You have been outbid! Current bid $15." So in other words, the other person bid the same as me, and his bid wins since he was first. I tried to enter a new bid but ran out of time. If I'd just done $15.01 like I usually do, I would have had an amazing deal. As is, I'll probably never own that coin, since I'm not going to pay $85 for it. I wish I'd had more time to think about it. And it was a nice coin, not uncirculated but no real problems. It should probably have sold for more than $100.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1418166, member: 25270"]I'm going to be kicking myself over this one for awhile. I was doing my usual eBay search this morning, world coins under $5 ending soonest, and at the top of the list is a Mexico 1929 2 centavos. Well, Mexico is a country I'm trying to get a full 20th century collection for, and this is the only 2 centavo I need, because it is $85 at the lowest grade in the book. The bid was at 99 cents with less than a minute left. So I'm kind of panicking trying to look at this to see what the catch is, and as there's 5 seconds left I enter a bid of $15. It says "You have been outbid! Current bid $15." So in other words, the other person bid the same as me, and his bid wins since he was first. I tried to enter a new bid but ran out of time. If I'd just done $15.01 like I usually do, I would have had an amazing deal. As is, I'll probably never own that coin, since I'm not going to pay $85 for it. I wish I'd had more time to think about it. And it was a nice coin, not uncirculated but no real problems. It should probably have sold for more than $100.[/QUOTE]
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