Shifting Strategies

It seems like the yarn bidders at the online auction are all back to swarming, so I tried another strategy with bidding on two more big lots: placing bids on what I want right before the auction closes. I'm also bidding on one that ends in the evening to see if there's a difference in the results. All three of these lots had no bids when I checked them.

Here's the lot that ended in the evening. In this lot there were some good quality yarns in the bag, and if there were as many as I estimate from with photos, the total cost would work out to about $1.50 per skein. I made my bid in the morning, and expected not to win it. I was very lucky and got it with no challengers. :)

This 8 lbs. lot comes with one-cent shipping, and has a lot of the colors that I want for my stash. It's one of the morning ending auctions, and yep, I won it for the minimum bid without any challengers.

Finally this 7.6 lbs. lot (also with one-cent shipping from the same source store) had a yarn kit still in the case that from the listing photos appears to be full. I already have two such kit yarn collections in my stash, and if these are compatible I would have enough for a throw or blanket, and I could test all of them. It ended in the morning and I won it with no challengers as well. I got both lots for my minimum bid and paid only two cents total for the shipping of both lots.

I don't know if winning all three lots proves that my strategy worked, but I got the yarn I needed for my stash at the price I was willing to pay, and that's what really matters. :)

Image credit: all the pics in this post came from the original auction listings at ShopGoodwill.com.

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