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Re: Auction Update 

By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (1)
Sun, 04 May 25 3:04 AM | 16 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 07772 of 07794
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It isn't often that I screw up on sterling silver purchases, but this time I did.

The auction lot shown includes three sterling silver spoons of a weight and size not provided. It turns out that these spoons are very small. They actually have pins on them so they can be worn as jewelry. Who would do such a thing?

I figure sterling teaspoons are worth a minimum of $10. In this lot, I had a teaspoon and a couple of baby spoons. Their combined weight should be 25 grams or so. It turned out that the largest of the three is baby spoon sized and the other two are really small. Their combined weight is 18 grams, and some of that is the non-sterling pins you can't see. Pretending that the pins are sterling, their total bullion value is $17.10. I paid $23 + 15%, or $26.45. #$^~! I hate it when that happens.

I'll keep the spoons, of course. But the costume jewelry is worthless to me. It goes to Goodwill.








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Re: Auction Update
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Wed, 30 Apr 25 9:32 PM 		Msg. 07593 of 07794

My wife did an auction pickup a few days ago that I just got around to looking at. One lot, described as "Misc. Electronics Lot, Excalibur Craps, HP Media Drive, Zire," was won for four dollars. Excalibur craps? Where does it say Exalaibur craps? LOL... [UPDATE: I forgive them. It does say Excalibur craps... in the lower, right corner.] I bought it for the drive - which I hoped would be good sized. The model number wasn't seen, so it could have been up to 750 gigs. It turned out to be smaller but still respectable. Putting it in perspective, most of my boxed-up drives are probably 10 gigs or less.

The power supply was missing, but the first one I tried worked, and so did the drive. It's absolutely loaded... 159 gigs used on 160 gigs capacity. There's so much information on it that I had no problem finding the owner's e-mail address... or, at least, her address in 2016. Does she still use it? Maybe not. Her husband died of cancer last year. She may have retired and gone away. But my conscience would have bothered me if I didn't make an effort to let the owner know what I had, so I sent her an e-mail to explain and offer to return it. After all, I think a good chunk of her life is on the drive and that's what I hope someone would do for me if I made such a colossal blunder.

Or maybe it's no blunder at all. She might have died. Or she may have backed up what she wanted.

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