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A hypothetical question about losing an auction

Started by Firespitter,

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Firespitter

Firespitter

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You're in your office watching an online auction count down from the last 3-5 minutes, so you can snipe a couple of slabs at the last moment, when in comes an employee who proceeds to verbally drop a pantload on you about why they are so important* that they shouldn't have to do their job and you should get someone else to do it for them so that they can simply collect a pay check for coming in late and leaving early an eating anything anyone leaves on the break room table. Thus causing you to lose out on bidding on either slab at all...In fact you look down at your computer to see that both auctions ended 12 minutes ago.....for about a quarter of what your starting bid was going to be.

 

Do You....

A) Begin outlining a classified advertisement for this person's replacement, making sure to include the line "-MUST NEVER INTERRUPT ME WHEN I"M FISHING FOR COMIC BOOKS!!!"

B) Call human resources an ask them for the most volatile and abusive verbiage you can use to fire someone without ensuring litigation from the Labor board's in your state.

C) Take a stack of New 52 comic books and roll them into a log an stuff them into said employee's tailpipe on your lunch break.

D) Immediately demonstrate your Hulk two-fisted haymaker punch on their stupid face?

 

Or E) do you have another suggestion?

 

(The suggestion cannot be "fire yourself because you shouldn't be looking at auctions online while you're at work" because I cannot fire my self. If I could I would have done it years ago.)

 

 

*important = their 15 cats would starve if they weren't there to feed them, and no one else has their medical issues, and no one else in the universe has to pay taxes this time of year except them, and you can't possibly understand how stressful that is..yadda, yadda.

 

GAHHHHH!!!!!!

Sorry, but I just had to get that out.

-Terry

 

Bomber-Bob

Bomber-Bob

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If you really wanted the books, I would have put in a high bid going into the last few minutes, just in case. If you didn't really want the books but just wanted to snipe a couple on the cheap, maybe it wasn't meant to be. Maybe the books had SCS or would have shipped with a cracked slab or some other aggravating situation. There are so many auctions and available product nowadays you will surely get another chance.

revat

revat

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Depending on what state you live in you might be allowed to shoot the employee.

 

florida ftw

Firespitter

Firespitter

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Yes yes...I realize I'm griping about someone else griping caused me to lose something I didn't need. (One of the comics I have over 2 dozen copies of, and the other I have too many of and in much better condition).

This has just been a tough week of people not taking responsibility for things an expecting me to handle them, and this was a straw on the camel's back.

And no, they are not fired....their dozen cats will have food on the table for a bit longer.

-Terry

Gem_Mint

Gem_Mint

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haha this has happened to me.

 

I chalked it up to...I shouldn't be buying these books anyway.

 

But I have used MyBidder ever since.

vaillant

vaillant

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:taptaptap: Why weren't you working?

 

lol +1

 

I always use a sniping service, when possible.

In the case of MyComicshop auctions last time I bid what was the most I thought I’d pay for a book, and I won (for a decent price, close to market value anyway).

wombat

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You should have just told him to come back in a few minutes because you were working on something. You have no one to blame but yourself. :baiting:

ttfitz

ttfitz

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I don't bother with sniping and go ahead and put in my best bid early

 

Aw, what fun is that?

 

Artboy99

Artboy99

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as already mentioned: you tell the employee at the beginning that now is not a good time to discuss for you but you will come see them in 5 minutes.

 

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