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It was bad enough that the auction for the cel of Raphael from TnN on a pillow blasted out of my price range recently. But I shrugged it off--I kinda knew from bidding activity that it would happen like that. And anyway, there was this other auction I had my eye on...
It was a lovely, lovely cel--an oversized pan cel that showed some awesome wing detail, some nice detail on the jacket, his face/hair... And it was *really* a steal of a price, half what people usually pay for that character. It sat at minimum bid *all* damned week--why, I dunno. I think min. bid was set too high and was scaring people off. Even going into the last half-hour, the last *ten* minutes, it was sitting at that minimum bid.
And then someone hikes it up. No biggie, still in my price range. During the last couple minutes of the auction, I try to bid...but the bizzatch who started to hike the price up had a higher max. I hike it up 25 bucks, her max was *still* higher. A few dollars more, a few dollars more--I never did fscking find where that bakayaro's max bid was. *growls* I finally made myself stop, when I realized how close I was getting to the price where I could just buy a Raphael cel outright from a direct sale.
But I wanted that cel. And I lost it. And that *pisses* me off.
I'm telling myself the usual--"It wasn't meant to happen" "Something else will come along, even at such a good price"...but saying that stuff doesn't actually help, does it? I'm still pissed off. Even thinking to myself that I made the bitch (or who knows, it mighta been a guy...but he can be a bitch too, for all I care) pay 55 dollars more than they would have had I not tried bidding ain't much comfort.
I *wanted* that cel. Rrrrgh. Yeah, I know I'm being far too pissy/snarky for what it's worth. I know that many, many countless scores of people have gone through the same thing, have gone through much worse. But I *wanted* that one. I'll regain my sense of the big picture later. For now, I'm pissed. (And just for the sake of ranting on something real, I must say I was minorly upset as it was, since *someone* decided to try and have a hissy fit late last night. I won't go on about it, since it's all discussed and apologized for already--but at least I have a real reason for being in a mood already.)
Hmf. Lord knows, with my karma I'll find out the person I was bidding against and bitching about is someone I know. Then I'll get to be horrified and feel like an uberjerk. ><;; It would be just my luck
It was a lovely, lovely cel--an oversized pan cel that showed some awesome wing detail, some nice detail on the jacket, his face/hair... And it was *really* a steal of a price, half what people usually pay for that character. It sat at minimum bid *all* damned week--why, I dunno. I think min. bid was set too high and was scaring people off. Even going into the last half-hour, the last *ten* minutes, it was sitting at that minimum bid.
And then someone hikes it up. No biggie, still in my price range. During the last couple minutes of the auction, I try to bid...but the bizzatch who started to hike the price up had a higher max. I hike it up 25 bucks, her max was *still* higher. A few dollars more, a few dollars more--I never did fscking find where that bakayaro's max bid was. *growls* I finally made myself stop, when I realized how close I was getting to the price where I could just buy a Raphael cel outright from a direct sale.
But I wanted that cel. And I lost it. And that *pisses* me off.
I'm telling myself the usual--"It wasn't meant to happen" "Something else will come along, even at such a good price"...but saying that stuff doesn't actually help, does it? I'm still pissed off. Even thinking to myself that I made the bitch (or who knows, it mighta been a guy...but he can be a bitch too, for all I care) pay 55 dollars more than they would have had I not tried bidding ain't much comfort.
I *wanted* that cel. Rrrrgh. Yeah, I know I'm being far too pissy/snarky for what it's worth. I know that many, many countless scores of people have gone through the same thing, have gone through much worse. But I *wanted* that one. I'll regain my sense of the big picture later. For now, I'm pissed. (And just for the sake of ranting on something real, I must say I was minorly upset as it was, since *someone* decided to try and have a hissy fit late last night. I won't go on about it, since it's all discussed and apologized for already--but at least I have a real reason for being in a mood already.)
Hmf. Lord knows, with my karma I'll find out the person I was bidding against and bitching about is someone I know. Then I'll get to be horrified and feel like an uberjerk. ><;; It would be just my luck
