I outbid my boss' wife at a silent auction and won tickets to a hockey game. She ran her mouth about getting these for his birthday in front of him, me and others. I was one of the first people to bid and the last and she knew I was bidding. With 3 minutes left, someone told her she was outbid but didn't say it was me that outbid her. She then in front of everyone explained to their child why they were no longer bidding, that they didn't want to pay any higher. When it was announced that I won, I just said how bout that. She proclaimed my name in an annoying tone and said oh my god! Then I added, I have a birthday too. Others congratulated me. Then she didn't talk to me the rest of the night. I say I had every right to bid on those tickets just as everyone else did. I don't think I should have stopped because it was his supposed birthday gift. I had my reasons for wanting those tickets too, but I kept them to myself.
2007-01-16 10:21:24 · 15 answers · asked by ajillity 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
You were fully entitled to bid as you pleased, and she was just being a spoiled brat about it. If she really wants to treat her husband, she can just go and buy her own tickets at full price.
2007-01-16 10:28:49 · answer #1 · answered by teresathegreat 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Maybe this woman hasn't heard...but hockey tickets are available to everyone. If she continues to get on your nerves, slip her the number to Ticketmaster.
That said, you're absolutely entitled to bid on anything you please, ESPECIALLY at a silent auction. I imagine this woman has a circle of close, catty friends, and everyone else on the planet despises her quietly behind her back. In fact, the friends probably do, too. She sounds like a real piece of work. I might have bid against her simply out of spite...at least you WANTED the tickets.
She obviously has no knowledge of how a silent auction is supposed to work, and she got exactly what she deserved. And if telling everyone why she was bidding was an attempt to get other people NOT to? Well, that's among the most childish things I've ever heard of. Kudos to you. Enjoy your game.
2007-01-16 11:01:49 · answer #2 · answered by mjenkins8 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely. She showed poor taste by letting everyone around her hear about her plans for the tickets, as if they were already hers, and being a poor loser didn't help. It doesn't matter what you wanted the tickets for, anyone was allowed to bid on them, and it wasn't as though you bid just so she wouldn't get them. It was an incredible lack of manners for her to give you grief over that. Shame on her!
2007-01-16 11:47:31 · answer #3 · answered by tmiller 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you were not wrong! The idea of a silent auction is to get the most money for the item, usually for charity. She is an ignorant buffoon who tried to make you feel bad and probably intimidated because her husband is your boss. It doesn't matter why she was buying them--if you want something bad enough, you have to pay the price.
Enjoy your tickets and brag about how much fun you had! If she says anything further, you could say "Gee, your husband makes more than me--he's my boss after all--I'm sorry you couldn't afford them."
2007-01-16 10:30:58 · answer #4 · answered by schweetums 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tell her about the hot new trend in "Box Office ticket sales". It's incredible-she can actually GO TO THE VENUE and buy her tickets! And no one can outbid her on them! Why, she can even do it online!
And if she likes auctions so much, tell her to "See Ebay".
Seriously, you don't owe this woman anything. It's not like you heard her talking about it excitedly and then ran to outbid her. THAT would be really rude.
2007-01-16 12:50:41 · answer #5 · answered by Jennie Fabulous 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no I dont think that you were wrong at all what was wrong is for her to promise her husband something that she didnt have, and you are right you had just as much right to bid on those tickets as she did and you paid your money and if i was you I would not feel bad cause you didnt do anything wrong, it seem any way you go she would have been mad with someone, what if another co-worker would have out bidded her it would have been the same thing, good luck and enjoy the game
2007-01-16 10:30:28 · answer #6 · answered by MsThang 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, what a rude and nervy lady! You had every right to bid on the item, just as she had every right to pay more if she really wanted it too. It's not your fault that she was counting on that to be her husbands birthday gift. If she wanted them so bad she should have just purchased them outright. She sounds like a very entitled lady who is used to getting what she wants and gets mad when she doesn't. She should have behaved graciously or said nothing at all. You were 100% right.
2007-01-16 11:55:52 · answer #7 · answered by MelB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 06:18:27 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If she wanted to give him hockey tickets as a gift, she could always buy them from a ticket office. You had every right to bid on them, and good on you for winning them. She's just suffering from terminal bad manners and ungracious behavior and setting one heckuva bad example for her kid.
2007-01-16 12:26:00 · answer #9 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, you did nothing wrong. An auction is called, It goes to the highest Bidder. She could have kept bidding.
2007-01-16 12:22:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋