is this Gloat worthy?

[brandom11]

At a local auction I saw a pallet with a rotary phase converter and two boxes of misc woodworking equipment. The winning bid was over $500 and I figured he was after the phase converter so I dickered with him and bought the two boxes for $70.00. As he was picking up the phase converter and I was getting the boxes loaded into my truck another guy asked if I would sell the jointer knives that went with the Oliver 13" jointer that he bought. Sure I said what will you give me? We settled on $60.00 so for $10.00 I was left with the following stuff: 3 King water stones, 600, 1200 and 6000. all new in boxes, a two cherries burnisher and several scrapers, three machinst vices, one of which was a cross slide and one that pivoted, several packages of sandpaper, two Organizers full of misc hardware and at the bottom of the box a BridgeCity tool works 24" straight edge. I believe I got my monies worth one any one item. Best thing was all three of us left the auction happy.

[Mekon]

That one qualifies for a gloat and a half...well done!

Sheesh, did you buy a lottery ticket too?

Mekon

[Robert Bonomi]

For it to be a *real* gloat, you needed to sell the knives for $75.

But this is definitely a 'large, industrial strength' neener.

And, as such, it does rate a "you suc ".

Congrats. particularly as regards the last line of your post. Well done!

[Bruce Barnett]

Verily. Thou sucketh.

[Guess who]

Nice when it happens. Sometimes it backfires. My wife wanted some sewing material and the bid went much higher than I'd have thought. I didn't embarass her though. What did turn my crank afterwards though was the fact that she then *gave* the basket [she was interested only in the contents], before I got there, to the woman who had been bidding for it; the reason the bid went so high. From now on I do the bidding.