Vagaries and much rambling to follow.

Been a strange week for me and online gun auctions. Watching a very expensive pistol I'd love to own, but probably wouldn't buy, sit at an absurdly low price for a week. Hoping someone would buy it so I didn't have to. And hoping it would go pretty high so I wouldn't feel bad about just missing it. Luckily it did.

Last week I was watching two shotguns from the same seller. The morning I went to bid, one... the one I really wanted, was gone. (sold in the store). So I turned my attention and money towards the other I only sort of wanted. Really just to check it off the list so I could stop looking at them. Following them on action, waiting for a bargain became a pastime the last few years. Well I probably paid too much, but who knows these days. I won it.

Just after it ended, a copy of the model I really wanted shows up from a seller I've bought from many times. (heck I bought two of this exact model shotgun from them in fact) I throw a bid of a "good" price at it and wait.

In the meantime, I think to myself "You're trying to buy a fourth copy (different variation) of this model. You just bought this other very similar one. Why don't you finally buy this other other one, one you've been wondering about for years and check that one off the list as well. If for nothing else, just to get past it, stop wondering! Like it, keep it, don't, sell it. Just stop dancing with the idea!

I found one at a price I could live with. Bid and won. The gun world being what it is, I paid the lowest price on Gunbroker. Yet that same price I would have said "No f#cking way!" 3 years or more ago, and passed on many of them for a fair bit less. But I figure I'm getting older and my dollar is worth less every day. Just do it!


So anyway, back to the original point... I won one gun I don't really need. Won another gun I don't really need (at close to 3x the price) But I still have the high bid on the other one!

So all week I'm watching it "don't worry, my bid is too low, someone will outbid me." Days go by, nothing. "Someone better outbid me!" More days go by. I start to make plans for what to do if I win. "Please someone outbid me!!!!" Starting to sweat. Not the money, it's a good price. But FFL's and all that, plus what to do with it, where to put it? I don't want it!

Tonight someone finally did. Thank goodness right? But somewhere inside, I'm fucking angry!! LMAO


Not really angry because I'm not going to get it, though I'd rather have it than one of the ones I do. I'm angry because it's only $25 more than my bid. I guess like many things in life, I don't mind losing as much as I dislike almost winning. Now the spiteful angry person comes out. I want to bid just to drive the price up! lol And then what? Accidentally win the gun I've been hoping all week I wouldn't? lol


I guess the problem is, the idea of ending up with it after all started to feel okay to me. I really wouldn't mind having it as well, even though it would sit unused.

Yes, I want all the guns! lol The hoarder gene meets the gun nut gene, bad combination.


Happy because I didn't win. Sad because I didn't win. Anxiety from both.

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Originally posted by cas:
Yes, I want all of the guns! LOL! The hoarder gene meets the gun nut gene = bad combination.

I have no idea what you are talking about. *


* Says the guy with four P220s chambered in 7.65mm.

How do you know the other bidder wouldn't have gone up $300 more dollars? Maybe $500?

You are the guy auctions were designed for since you are your own best salesman.

I kinda did that to improve the "herd" for several years and amassed quite a collection. I then ended up worrying that I would leave family with a bunch of stuff none of them were interested in and more of a burden so I ended up selling 20 something guns in a years time. I only really miss two of them. I still have more guns than I use but at least it's a manageable number.

I have convinced myself that if I buy a guy it needs to fill a need and be better than the one I I currently have for that purpose. So far I have been successful.

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
How do you know the other bidder wouldn't have gone up $300 more dollars? Maybe $500?

Doesn't matter, I'da gone with 'em!


As for leaving it to people, I've decided I'll be dead and won't care.

You can get therapy for that.

For something that I want, I don't want to F around so I go looking for the buy now option.