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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3700863, member: 112&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t say that you need to adjust your methods, but your thinking - yeah. It&#039;s more a matter of realization than thinking though. </p><p><br /></p><p>First off you have to realize that there&#039;s a lot of people out there who bid based on emotion, not objective reasoning. And if one of them happens to be bidding against you on a given coin - well, you just aint gonna win that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, you also have to realize that if you&#039;re lucky you might, stress lucky and might, have the winning bid 5% of the time - maybe, stress maybe. And even that 5% is probably too high. In other words, when you&#039;re bidding on a coin, you&#039;re almost always gonna lose - that&#039;s pretty much a given. And not just a given for you - but for everybody.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, you can never underestimate the knowledge factor. In other words, there might be something about a given coin that somebody else recognizes that nobody or almost nobody else recognizes - because they know something that the others don&#039;t. And when that happens the value of that coin just isn&#039;t what most think it is. The reverse also applies, there might be an issue of some kind, a small problem, that some notice and others, bidding higher, simply don&#039;t. I guess the point I&#039;m trying to make here is that when it comes to winning bidding, it&#039;s not just what ya know that matters, but also what ya don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, if you start winning bids too often, too much of the time, it&#039;s a near certainty you&#039;re paying too much for the coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, paying too much for a coin now and then is something we ALL have done. Sometimes we know that and sometimes we don&#039;t. And it&#039;s the ones where ya don&#039;t that ya gotta worry about. Knowing what you&#039;re doing and when - that&#039;s the important part.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, the feeling, concern maybe, that you&#039;re expressing is something else we&#039;ve all experienced. But, realizing what I&#039;ve said above, well, it helps us deal with that. And that&#039;s about the best we can hope for <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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