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HERITAGE November................................................

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jimbo_707

jimbo_707

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I like spreadsheets. They help me keep anarchy from overtaking my sanity. That being said, I decided to track my Heritage books on a daily basis to see how the bidding progressed over time. I thought it might be helpful to those panicky consignors who think their books are going to tank if they aren't bid up in the first week.

 

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Thanks for posting this.

 

As a buyer, I have a rule when bidding. :rulez:

 

If I'm trying to snipe an item, or bid live on HA, I calculate what the pre snipe bid or pre live bid and multiply by 1.5. For instance, an $800 pre snipe (live bidding) bid should be budgeted to $1200. With this rule in place, I can rationalize being the underbidder as the book was over priced. Conversely, if I win, my reasoning is that I got it at a bargain. If there is a book I can't live without, I'll close my eyes and hold my nose and go 2x on the bid. In this auction I won 3/8 using this rule in the HA Nov auction.

 

Anyone else got :rulez: to live buy?

I look to see if there were any recent strong sales--i.e., bidding war sales--that could be temporarily inflating the price. I've seen many cases where books are hot for a while and then come back down to earth, and I'd rather wait than buy a book while it's hot.

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originalisbest

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There seem to be a fair number of high-grade copies of this one around. Now I have one. :D

 

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i wish i didn't. but i do.

 

Yeah, not really our boy Raboy at his finest. :D

 

Agreed. There are a ton of copies around of this ish that are basically uncirculated, some touched by water, some not or less so -- I remember seeing a bunch on eBay in a short span of time 10 years back. It's one of those "Gerber 6's" that may have been at the time (in Ernie's opinion) but certainly isn't any longer.

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