Experience is the best teacher - She tests first, then teaches.

Experience is often costly.

Dave, none of this is your fault, that's for sure. You did this all in good faith and as a group we need people like you to bring things forward. The fact that this particular auction house did what they did is certainly no fault of yours.
My wife is a physical therapist here in WV in pediatrics. She has children/patients who will never walk, jump, run skip, say their first word, walk down the aisle someday, walk across the stage for graduation, play ball of any kind, HOLD a ball of any kind but most of them smile. Their parents smile. So I feel pretty tiny complaining about a gun I didn't get. I wish I would never have posted originally also. I have more double guns than I could ever shoot on a regular basis. It was childish of me to complain and get everyone else involved.
With that said, we also as a group if we are going to bid at auctions, need know who the stiinkers are. So the thread has merit, we just need to keep in all in perspective. I get spiteful and that's not a gracious quality in a person. I think we need to move on and concentrate on the positive. Spring is coming and I know of some native brook trout willing to bend the little 7ft 3wt cane rod I've built over the winter. God Bless our military, present and past serving, Jerry

Thanks Jerry, Good thoughts there. I think I'll try to catch the tide today and put my little boat in the water. I hear the Perch are running.

Dave

Well spoken indeed Dave.
 

Even though I am NOT an auction buyer or for that matter, consignor, you have clarified for all of us on the PGCA Forum what exactly happened. Your words ring true for me, and I believe your willingness to come forth and give us all the "Paul Harvey- rest of the story" details will possibly prevent future incidents such as this one. As for the Mark Twain quotes- yes indeed. But as Mark Twain lived and wrote in an era without microwave ovens, his sage observations about cats and stoves is most telling- I wonder what the greatest American fiction writer (Hemingway's words of praise) would say if he saw a foto on my daughter's Calico cat sleeping on top of the microwave in her kitchen??:bigbye:

Enjoy the new 7 ft. 3 wt. Lee Wulff would smile!
 

== Jerry, my friend- your description of what your wife deals with on a daily basis recalls to my mind the wisdom of the Hindu-- "I cried because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet!"--

So true O & R, so true! My wife is an angel, and has the greatest attitude 99.9% of the time. The time she's down however, she's really down but...I can't say much as she has one tough job. We've been to a lot of funerals with little caskets. it's sad. Jerry