Bidding & Winning Auctions (or how not to get Camel Hair Seat Covers for a 55 Chevy I Don't Own)
© Reginald Vickers
Remember the Fred Flintstone show where Arnold, the paperboy, bets with Fred over marbles and he gets hooked on gambling? Every time someone says something about gambling, an alarm goes off in Fred's head, he gets wild-eyed and starts yelling, "Bet! Bet! Bet!" I think that was the best way to describe me when I first found out about auctions on the Internet. It started out small, a few bucks here, a few bucks there. I'd win one or two, lose many. I could quit at anytime. The more I played the better I got. My chances of losing were as good as Jeff Gordon missing a shift on a restart at Pocono Speedway. It can happen but I would learn from my mistake.
Sure I won only things I could use. So what if I didn't have a 55 Bel-Air? Those camel hair seat covers were going to be pretty nice if I ever did get one. And I know what you're thinking about the velvet Elvis that I bought for a song. That's why I had to buy that lava lamp. $85 may seem a lot for a lamp but you should have been there when I won the bid from "Disco-man." We were going neck and neck. I waited for 5 seconds before the bid ended, with my bid all ready and my finger on the submit key, then "bam!" I won. My eyes glazed as the words came on my screen, "This auction has ended." Disco-man was another victim. I've been in Disco-man's place before. I muttered under by breath, "I know how you feel, but you're messing with the king of auctions." And as Jim Croce sings on Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, "You don't mess around with me." (I picked that album up last week with five other albums for $75 - bargain hunting goes out the window when you're bidding.)
There are many on-line auctions. The two main types are 1) purchase items from the auction site - Onsale and 2) purchase items from an individual who has placed an item on the site - eBay. There are pros and cons of both. Let's look at those.
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