It hasn't been often where I had a #1, it has typically been a tiered system where a handful of guns sit at #1 and the rest are somewhere lower. Then... you sit patiently and wait as if they don't even exist so there is zero pressure... and when one appears in a price range that works, no STUPID excuses as to why ya can't or why "wahhh, it isn't the right time boo hoo" or you don't have the money.
That's purely amateur and I left that nonsense a decade ago.