I know a guy in Germany who sells used board games. Once upon a time I was a regular customer. But over the years I have slowed down. Earlier this year I got the urge to participate in his online auctions again. So I bid on Palermo, an obscure race game from 1992 that I was interested in. As it happened, I didn’t get any competition, and I eventually won his going once, going twice, sold method of running his auction. Unfortunately, instead of running his auction every two weeks as I had recalled he seemed to do it about once a month or even every 6 weeks.
Compounding my wait, I decided to then bid on a couple other older games from his extensive list: Odysseus and Big Deal. I also won these for the opening bid, but they took an extra cycle to clear. Shipping from Germany takes roughly a month, so roughly 5 months after my initial bid, the box showed up today. I had forgotten about it!
