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Roomie and I have often formulated our decision-making policy as one of "regret prevention." Regret prevention applies to, among other things, the purchasing or not of motorcycles. For instance, right now I regret not having bid $7,900 for a 1986 Ducati F1 a couple of weeks ago. If I had, I would have the F1 for less than I was willing to pay for one last year. I had my reasons for not bidding on the F1 two weeks ago, i.e. I was in Durango skiing when the auction ended and could not very well bid from the slopes. Turns out I probably could have, but when I left it was uncertain if I would have the time.
In any case, the bike is up for auction again this week. Evidently the winner of the previous auction decided that it was going to be too costly to ship the bike to Germany. The irony of regret prevention here is that I will in all probability be relieved if the auction price goes above what I am willing to pay. It is not the best time for me to be spending more on motorcycles, and acquiring this one will require me to put a couple of others (750 Sport, Benelli 250 SS) on the block. Even with the additional work of selling two motorcycles, taking on another project, and arranging the delivery of yet another motorcycle to Albuquerque, I know that I will regret letting this motorcycle be sold for less than what I was willing to pay for it.
Posted by Underblog at March 29, 2008 8:04 AM
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