So, I may be an idiot, or maybe I'm lucky, I'm not entirely sure yet, and only time will tell (If you ask my wife, she might say that I'm an idiot, 
and we don't need to wait for time to tell us anything). It goes like this; I'm bored, with a little time to kill before I head off to grab the young fella from school. I get on my fancy laptop and check my email. I notice another update from the local auction house that politely reminds me that their next online auction closes Saturday, March 6. I think to myself, "self, you love window shopping for other people's junk that you have no intention of buying, and you have a little time to kill." So naturally, I hit the link to go to the auction website. Now I get on there, and start browsing; remember this is casual, window shopping, I have no job (COVID BABY), no money, and no time to work on the junk I have.
I don't know how you fine Stars and Stripers do it, but this particular maple-flavoured auction house only shows you prices when you login and put in your deposit. Now, being curious, and having extensive and good credit (I don't know how or why, maybe because I'm not 18 anymore????) I slap the fully-refundable deposit down so I can really dig into the finer points of window shopping for other peoples sh*tboxes. I spied a little corolla with low miles, and a stick shift, and thought, "that's a great first car for my boy!" He is 6. Then I got browsing into the trucks, and there was lots of new, spendy stuff, and a half-a-dozen clapped out, "Seller reports engine problems," kind of garbage.
I bounced back to the cars, looked hard at a couple minivans and some really ugly pseudo-suvs, and then right at the end there were two suburbans. One really nice 2011 with low miles and a decent body, and then a 2003 with right around 200k miles on the clock. I clicked on the 2011, looked it over until my curiosity was satisfied, and then I clicked on the 2003 to do the same. I backed out, and then thought, "I don't know if I counted how many seats were still in that Sub," so I clicked to go look it over one more time. Then I noticed that the box for this suburban is now a nice little green colour, and inside the box it said, "Bid with you, $1200."
I somehow bid on it by accident, with my old-man, ham-fisted, computer skills.
The box to click to open the detailed view of the ad and the box you click to bid are side by side, and my dumb-a$$ decided to click on the wrong one. I have heard of kids accidentally buying stuff on their parents phones and ipads and the like, or people getting worked-up at live auctions and bidding on junk that nobody needs, but I may be the first donkey that I know of that has pulled a bone-headed stunt like this.
It has been about 5 hours now, and nobody else has bid on this sucker. I'm the only bidder. This auction has been going since Thursday morning, and it closes tomorrow AM (Saturday).
Update to follow tomorrow. Either I have a new-old suburban to pay for, or I'm in the clear. I chickened out and told my wife, so far she hasn't divorced me. I think she's waiting for the outcome.
Thoughts, build options, ideas, criticism?
and we don't need to wait for time to tell us anything). It goes like this; I'm bored, with a little time to kill before I head off to grab the young fella from school. I get on my fancy laptop and check my email. I notice another update from the local auction house that politely reminds me that their next online auction closes Saturday, March 6. I think to myself, "self, you love window shopping for other people's junk that you have no intention of buying, and you have a little time to kill." So naturally, I hit the link to go to the auction website. Now I get on there, and start browsing; remember this is casual, window shopping, I have no job (COVID BABY), no money, and no time to work on the junk I have. I don't know how you fine Stars and Stripers do it, but this particular maple-flavoured auction house only shows you prices when you login and put in your deposit. Now, being curious, and having extensive and good credit (I don't know how or why, maybe because I'm not 18 anymore????) I slap the fully-refundable deposit down so I can really dig into the finer points of window shopping for other peoples sh*tboxes. I spied a little corolla with low miles, and a stick shift, and thought, "that's a great first car for my boy!" He is 6. Then I got browsing into the trucks, and there was lots of new, spendy stuff, and a half-a-dozen clapped out, "Seller reports engine problems," kind of garbage.
I bounced back to the cars, looked hard at a couple minivans and some really ugly pseudo-suvs, and then right at the end there were two suburbans. One really nice 2011 with low miles and a decent body, and then a 2003 with right around 200k miles on the clock. I clicked on the 2011, looked it over until my curiosity was satisfied, and then I clicked on the 2003 to do the same. I backed out, and then thought, "I don't know if I counted how many seats were still in that Sub," so I clicked to go look it over one more time. Then I noticed that the box for this suburban is now a nice little green colour, and inside the box it said, "Bid with you, $1200."
I somehow bid on it by accident, with my old-man, ham-fisted, computer skills.
The box to click to open the detailed view of the ad and the box you click to bid are side by side, and my dumb-a$$ decided to click on the wrong one. I have heard of kids accidentally buying stuff on their parents phones and ipads and the like, or people getting worked-up at live auctions and bidding on junk that nobody needs, but I may be the first donkey that I know of that has pulled a bone-headed stunt like this. It has been about 5 hours now, and nobody else has bid on this sucker. I'm the only bidder. This auction has been going since Thursday morning, and it closes tomorrow AM (Saturday).
Update to follow tomorrow. Either I have a new-old suburban to pay for, or I'm in the clear. I chickened out and told my wife, so far she hasn't divorced me. I think she's waiting for the outcome.
Thoughts, build options, ideas, criticism?
With an hour left, I'm in the clear, and back out of the dog house. 
I'm just as disappointed as you are."
