Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!!
Doughty's Dawn in Britain, the 1943 one-volume edition, VG in dustjacket, sold to somebody else for £6.45 because I forgot to bid on the goddamned auction!
I had it open in a browser window in the background, but then in the last hour or so before the auction I got so engrossed in writing the draft of yet another book commentary that I forgot about the auction until it was too late.
The cheapest one currently offered on ABE, G without dustjacket, costs £80.
Grrrr. Remind me again why I don't trust sniping services?
*bangs head against table*
posted by ill-advised at 9:37 PM
2 Comments:
You don't trust them because you think you're better than them. But you're also human and they're not. :)
But life does get better once you get over the inital shock. :)
Actually, I think the main reason I don't trust them is because I'm worried that they might forward my eBay password to some third party.
Besides, doing one's own sniping the old-fashioned way provides a nice, cheap thrill :)
But life does get better once you get over the inital shock. :)
This reminds me of the well-known recipe for happiness: swallow a live frog the first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. [Nor to the frog, for that matter :)] But I'm not sure if that's the sort of advice that I particularly wish to heed :)
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