I know it's just laziness with me, I missed a great bargain about three weeks ago, there's a site in the UK called Gumtree that does local auctions and there was a guy in Edinburgh selling 3 A1200's with 030 boards and he only wanted £45 for the lot, unfortunately I don't drive and my sister who could have taken me their was away that day. I contacted the guy the next day but he had sold them to someone else the night before, just my luck eh... 
My biggest bargain was when I bought a QuaddddroPort 4 way clockport expander together with a IOBlix 1200S and a IOBlix 1200P clockport card for a very small amount of money. A while ago I saw an Amiga 3000 with a 030 card & Mediator at a real affordable price, and I was sooooo tempted at bidding on it, and before that I saw a Commodore CDTV which I considered bidding on as well.
But what typically happens with me is that I find something interesting on an auction site, but in order to avoid driving the price up, I don't place a bid early on in the auction. What happens next is that I forget about the whole thing before it's too late
Must be all the different blood from various ancestors bit of German, lithuanian & Irish in the mix... 
So you are not a 100% pure scotsman then, you know one of those who will sit in the smallest room in the house with a teaspoon and cry about what he is about to lose :lol:
