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Lost Silents

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Star-crossed Collectors?
« on: July 01, 2014, 05:01:00 AM »
If this isn't the right place for this, then could some kind person please move it - I've had a good look and haven't found any other thread where this would fit better...

Anyway, have any of you had that strange experience of competing with the same bidder time and time again for the same pieces? I'm not exaggerating when I say that I come up against the same person on almost every lot that I bid on in Bruce's auctions - Warshaw21. If any of you are he/she, let me just say - you have excellent taste and deep pockets, friend!

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2014, 07:35:24 AM »
I believe everyone has a mirror collector, I would swear for years a couple people were bidding just because they saw my id on something because it always seemed to be the same people I would get stepped on by.


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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2014, 08:25:13 AM »
Not me :) yahooo
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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2014, 12:48:04 PM »
Yes, at least two of them, one's a member here....   :-\
It's more than a Hobby...

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2014, 01:46:25 PM »
Quote from: Mirosae 3link=topic=237.msg121921#msg121921 date=1370212061
ma500969  Congratulations  Way Down East is all yours!

I was the underbidder  I tried.. I really wanted that poster... oh well... next time I suppose

Agree. I want what s/he wants. If I see him/her again bidding I ....I. ..Don't know what I would do..
« Last Edit: July 01, 2014, 01:48:50 PM by Mirosae »

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2014, 03:16:59 PM »
I have a mirror in my gambling collection.

he is also one of my own customers, but his interests are a bit more limited (he wants lc's and posters that actually show gambling chips. no chips? no interest)

we'll both bid on something - say a 2-3 card lot - and if he wins, he'll email asking if I'm interested in the 2 he isn't, but the problem is we're both interested in the 1 card

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2014, 04:37:57 PM »
How many times must this happen before someone can say one has a "mirror collector" or competitor?

It is bound to happen to any that bid, a handful of times (same genres, or decade), so that the random few times we have all experienced this is much different than what Lost Silents was asking and suggesting, namely, when it happens time after time after time with the same mirror bidder. 


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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2014, 05:03:02 PM »
I assumed mirror means it happens more often than not and with the same one.

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2014, 08:50:35 PM »
What about someone like marklawd... I think he is the mirror for like 13-15 different people -- including myself!   ;D

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2014, 10:28:53 PM »
Star-crossed sounds too lovey dovey for when this situation arises.  I know I certainly do not feel like I have a poster soul mate when they continuously battle me!

It feels more like a poster marriage   :P
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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2014, 11:04:50 PM »
What about someone like marklawd... I think he is the mirror for like 13-15 different people -- including myself!   ;D

That's no mirror, it's a space station!

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2014, 04:09:54 AM »
Doppelganger?  (As opposed to star-crossed)

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2014, 11:34:37 AM »
Definitely need a word invented to describe this phenomenon.

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2014, 12:13:30 PM »
DoppelGrande?


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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2014, 12:20:43 PM »
What would be a word to describe this situation - wife and I are pissed at each other/its monday morning/I'm tired/hungover/hungry/getting crapped on at work...etc.  Then out of the blue I get a text message.  Its my wife:

"Poster tube just delivered"

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2014, 01:36:13 PM »
© DoppelGrande.

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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2014, 02:01:23 PM »
What would be a word to describe this situation - wife and I are pissed at each other/its monday morning/I'm tired/hungover/hungry/getting crapped on at work...etc.  Then out of the blue I get a text message.  Its my wife:

"Poster tube just delivered"

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This is known as the "I now need to buy flowers on the way home from work" situation
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Re: Star-crossed Collectors?
« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2014, 02:12:34 PM »
I remember the couple times I beat out 'ingagi'. Felt like doing cartwheels.
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