Can you ever have enough tools - I think the answer is YES

[Busy Beaver Lumber]

I can agree on the need for more clamps. There has been many times i wish i had a few more bar clamps, but with their cost, i usually try to be patient and pick them up at auctions and garage sales or from some woodworker giving up the hobby

[hardtailjohn]

I was at the local auction last spring and there was about 2 dozen pony pipe clamps. I knew what they were worth and bid them as high as I felt I could, and a guy that had bid me up all the way got the auction. The clamps were being sold _ times the money and they asked the guy how many he wanted.... ONE.  I thought the auctioneer was gonna kill him (I was ready to help)!  I wound up bringing them all home.

[easymoney]

you never know how an auction is going to go. a few years ago you could pick up some real bargains at farm auctions here. but with scrap metal bringing what it does now those days are gone. i got a laugh about the bidder wanting one clamp.
if you have one of everything you might need another one for a backup in case one fails. i do not rely on my tools for my living but i still have 2 or 3 of every tool i need.
what burns me up is someone just bidding against you for mischief intending to dump it on you when he feels you are near your maximum.
i was at an auction a few years ago and an item i was bidding on reached as much as i was willing to go. one of the people working for the auctioneer came around and said if i would raise it one more time he would see that i would get it. i felt that he was having someone that did not want it bidding against me to make me pay more.  sometimes buy bidders will backfire on them.

[Corley5]

I've stuck more than one planted bidder with an item.

[Busy Beaver Lumber]

Don't go to auctions nearly as much as I used to. Came to realize that auctions were probably where the saying " A Fool and his money is soon parted" must have originated.

I went to a coin auction a few years back and watched one such fool jump for joy as one coin after another he was winning the bidding wars. Of course he was. He had successfully bid each coin up to much higher than its market value and every one else was smart enough to let him do it. Even the auctioneer asked a couple of times if he heard his bid correctly, as if to warn him that he was seriously overbidding. It was really sad watching him in action and you almost wanted to go over and save him from himself by snapping his bidding paddle in half and throwing it in the trash.

I just about died when he jumped out and bid $9 each on 40% 1968 JFK halves that were only worth about $4 each and said he would take all 50 of them. After the auction, I asked him why he paid so much over spot silver value for the "junk" 1968 halves and he says " Goes to show what you know, they are worth over $10 a piece for their silver content because they are 90% silver". You should have seen his face when I told him only the 1964 JFK halves were 90% silver and the 50 halves he just bought were only 40% silver.

[SwampDonkey]

I went and viewed a couple auctions locally. All they was, it turns out, was all the junk left over from 'high graded' estate sales in the city. And pure junk it was, quite literally.

I laughed one time, there was an estate sale, another one of them high grades from the city again. And this fellow saw a graphone that had a little drawer in the case, that he wanted. He is a radio collector. Anyway, the person in charge was quite a snob. So when she wasn't looking he stuck a couple $100 bills in the drawer. He then carried on to look around. He and my uncle were he only ones there at the time. Later he told her he would buy it for $100 and she said sold. When he loaded it on the truck to take it home, he opened the drawer in plain view and said to her, 'Oh look, $200 right here'. She was some mad, he had his come up'ns with the old battleaxe. :D :D