I’ve been bidding about 50% of NADA value on Class A RV auctions for about two years, and naturally I was getting outbid early on every auction. I had bid on so many RV’s I got in the habit of telling Alice after I lost an auction. So here I am travelling on business in Chihuahua Mexico, eating with coworkers in the hotel lounge, and my smartphone connected to WiFi (I did not have international service). All of the sudden my smart phone rings out with “DROID…” from my EBay app…

I look and it says 15 minutes left, and I’m still the high bidder! It’s a no reserve auction and I made made a really low proxy bid, I should be thrilled. But I’m a 1000 miles from home, have not told my wife about this auction since I usually tell her each time I’ve been outbid!  As you might guess, I’m in a panic hoping to get outbid in the last few minutes! As the auction winds down, I win and guess who’s a dead duck! After I got back to my room I called home like I always do on biz trips and Alice says she had an Oh Ship moment today, I snorted… She asks me what’s up and I say dear, I’d love to hear about your day first…. Big mistake since that was a big, fat red flag… Now I realized I was lucky I was 1000 miles beyond her reach…