Posted by Ultradog MN on January 24, 2020 at 09:44:21 from (172.58.83.123):
I posted here about a week ago asking what were the Ford and Dodge equivalents to the Chevy Work Truck. I got some good replies. Board member John in Newhaven mentioned there was a pickup like I wanted coming up at an auction where he works. We got in touch - phone and text - and he helped me to jump through all the hoops to get registered. I do everything on my smart phone here. Have unlimited high speed data. So yesterday was the auction and I'm raring to go. I'm registered, had updated my browser, downloaded the app and was watching the livestream of the auction. A few cars into the sale I started losing data. Livestream was stalling. Oh no! So I jumped into my pickup and went to the library and switched my phone from data to Wi-Fi. Cool. Livestream is on again and I was back in business. Then of all things to happen my phone decides to update. There's no delaying it. It just gives you a notice and then shuts down. Meanwhile the auction ain't waiting on me. I rushed over to one of the library computers and logged onto it with my library card #. Then I found the auction website and hurriedly logged in there. Got on the livestream again with one car to go before the one I want comes up. Whew. But the library computers don't allow sound unless you bring your own headphones. Which I hadn't. And hearing the auctioneer is pretty important in a live auction. I'm a little bit rattled by now too. The price of the pickup gets right up to my maximum. So I clicked the bid button. Nothing happened so I clicked it again. John said he had watched the auction on a monitor and afterwards told me he saw my bid come in about a second after the auction closed. And I didn't get the pickup. I was just stunned. But, I did learn a lot and will find another pickup to bid on. More than anything I feel I let John down - after all the help he gave. Thinking about it here, technology gave me the ability to live bid on a pickup that was 500 miles away. But that same technology had a few hiccups and took my opportunity away. All these odd circumstances seem to have conspired against me. But, guy has to be philosophical about it all and I'm thinking that for some reason, me getting the pickup just wasn't meant to be. Jerry
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