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This was the second one for me. The other was a few years back , put a $800 bid on a browning 71 carbine. Week later got an email. Was not upset about that one.

I once threw a penny bid on two bulk lots of brass, over 1k each of rifle brass by the same seller. I won them both. I emailed him and asked if he would combine shipping lol. He didn't respond, I paid the $20.02 for 1k 308 and 243 brass. I kinda felt bad for the guy, kinda.

You and me both!

Just had a guy back out of a bid like that. He wanted the gun for his dad, won it, his dad didn’t want it so he backed out. Still working on getting my fees back from GB. He was a new guy, only a couple feedback, now he has negative feedback and has been reported as a non paying bidder.

Old70

I call it “BWI” Browsing While Intoxicated

You guys are cracking me up- and yes, I've been in a position of hoping someone would outbid me so I didn't have to fight with the wife over my latest purchase...

Not Gunbroker, but an online auction I saw a Kimber of Oregon 82 S Series that looked really nice. Great wood, etc... I was watching the bidding and it was extremely low for what should have been a $2500 rifle so I put in a max bid of $1500 while it was still at around $1200, just to get the bidding going again and identify who was bidding... wouldn't you know it, there was only one more bid and it was an automatic max bid for someone and nobody bid over my max bid so I ended up with it. Funny part was I was talking to my buddy on the phone who is the Kimber expert about the listing and we were both watching it when it was winding down and discussing guns in general and I just knew I was going to be outbid. We both laughed our butts off when I realize I had bought this thing for a bargain price... he has been trying to buy it from me ever since...

Never unintentionally bid on one but sometimes you feel like you just have to bid when you see a deal going by even if it's something you don't really really want.

As I write this someone's about to get a Browning SA-22 for $390 - Japanese made but still a pretty rifle. Watched a 4" S&W Model 34 in the box with manual, cleaning stuff and the other goodies go for $680 a few weeks ago, most of them are priced up a good $200-300 higher than that these days.

I threw opening bids on a Lefty MRC X2 280 Rem over the 4th of July one year, and a Lefty Ruger Hawkeye 270 Win just before Christmas another year. I ended up with both of them. Neither rifle showed much use. I figured my odds were near zero. It sure used to be different .

Ha! Think I'll pass on that one, but thanks for the info. You must have been lit!

I've done it a couple times, too much beer I suppose.

Been there and done that and got the guns to prove it. Have said many prayers to be outbid as well after some alcohol involved surfing as well.
CT

Kinda...No, really arm askeered of internet gun auctions.
But I have been on both sides at in person auctions.

Bid on a Mark V in 300 Hammond 15 years ago.
Mostly because buyers were being stingy and wasting time, so I made
things move. At $1300 installed, my bid.

My hands went in my pockets and made fists.

What the hell would I do with a PITA wildcat that weighs a ton?
It was a deceased friend's, it didn't even shoot well!

Into one right now, I'm the high bidder, don't really care one way or the other if I'm outbid........... I don't think it will last...

Wouldn't mind having it though.

Best part NO shipping, shop is a half hour away...........

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There is a reason they give out beer cozies.

Nope

There may have been a few. They all worked out, luckily im pretty cheap most of the time. Did pay $700+ for a run of the mill 1100 in 12 gauge a while back. Barrel code came back to the year i was born, have a weird thing about wanting guns from 73. Still wouldn't have hurt my feelings to be outbid though

I was watching an A.H.Fox on auction and bidding was pretty slow, so I thought I'd help it along. Wasn't planning to own it, but wasn't too put out that I won. I would have kept it, but, fitting a new stock to it would have cost 2/3 of what I paid for it. The good new is, eight years later, I put it on consignment at local gun store, and after stores' commission, I walked away with $200 profit. How often does a person buy high and sell higher?

Not unintentional but regretted a bid which eventually won the auction. I wrote to the seller and offered to pay his fees if he would keep the gun and put it back up for sale but he wouldn't do it. So, I bought it.

never bought off them.

I saw a tax sale notice for land in the Americus GA newspaper years ago (lived there at the time... late 90s).

One parcel was about 6-7 acres... and a mile or so before Plains, GA. I had driven by it often. It would have been a nice site for a couple of simple homes or even a small hotel (Secret Service/Dignitaries for JC stuff).

The other parcel was 60 acres near Andersonville... middle of nowhere stuff.

I prepared two bids ($1,200/acre for the Plains parcel) IIRC.

...and $100/acre for the parcel way back down a dirt road near a creek.

As I opened the mailbox to drop in the two bids, God tapped me on the shoulder and said "Not so fast... you better go and look at the 60 acre one." So I went to the courthouse and pulled up the plats... jotted down various turns etc.

Down some old old roads, turning left and right I finally found an intersection and on the ratty fence next to the abandoned building read the sign ("CLOSED" Hazardous Materials NO LONG ACCEPTED at this Landfill".