VidThreeNorth
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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I just won my first eBay auction, and I have mixed feelings about it. It is a lens with a known scratch on it. The price was within my bid limit which was after due consideration. So what was so bad?
Well, I put in my bid limit about 1 1/2 hours before the end, and someone out-bid me. So I felt that it was over for me. I closed the page and went on to other stuff. Other stuff later included bidding on something else, which I was out-bid on anyway. Then I went on to other work and forgot about it for the night.
The next morning I get an email that I won the auction. The "final bid" was retracted leaving mine at the top. It never occurred to me that bids could be retracted, but ok, it seems like a reasonable idea in proper circumstances.
What bugs me is that I basically re-assigned that money in my head. I almost "re-spent" it. I do not like being put in positions like that. Maybe I should have retracted my bid on principle? I do not really need the lens. . . .
Well, I put in my bid limit about 1 1/2 hours before the end, and someone out-bid me. So I felt that it was over for me. I closed the page and went on to other stuff. Other stuff later included bidding on something else, which I was out-bid on anyway. Then I went on to other work and forgot about it for the night.
The next morning I get an email that I won the auction. The "final bid" was retracted leaving mine at the top. It never occurred to me that bids could be retracted, but ok, it seems like a reasonable idea in proper circumstances.
What bugs me is that I basically re-assigned that money in my head. I almost "re-spent" it. I do not like being put in positions like that. Maybe I should have retracted my bid on principle? I do not really need the lens. . . .