fuck you ebay

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  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,128
    hobbes wrote:
    i hate that they don't have some sort of "snipe" policy. i was just outbid on a san deigo ames 03 (s/n) poster with thirty seconds left in the auction. such fucking bullshit that i don't get a chance to counter bid on something like that.

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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    There are several "snipe" services that will snipe for you if you can't be around. Ebay even has their own. Just put in your max bid and that's that. I love it because I don't get pressured into bidding higher than I might if I was bidding at the last second. :)
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    wolfbear wrote:
    There are several "snipe" services that will snipe for you if you can't be around. Ebay even has their own. Just put in your max bid and that's that. I love it because I don't get pressured into bidding higher than I might if I was bidding at the last second. :)
    problem with the ebay one is that it bids straight away when you set it up..and if someone else has one set up it up-bids until one has reached the max bid.. you need to do it less than 1 min before the auction end for it to work really..
  • Smarter_Than_U
    Smarter_Than_U Posts: 515
    One of my favorite software tools is Auction Sniper. It's an automated program that bids at the last second for you with your max bid. That way you don't have to actually be at your computer sweating it out. This software is especially helpful for auction's that end in the middle of the night.

    To the people who complain about sniping--if you can't beat em, join em.

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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    Pegasus wrote:
    problem with the ebay one is that it bids straight away when you set it up..and if someone else has one set up it up-bids until one has reached the max bid.. you need to do it less than 1 min before the auction end for it to work really..
    No, I have mine set to bid 6 seconds before the auction ends. You can set it for any time you want. :)
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • FnCircus
    FnCircus Posts: 439
    pjtradeking wrote:
    I look at it as a sport...:)
    they have commercials on the television that portray it as just that, a sport.
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    wolfbear wrote:
    No, I have mine set to bid 6 seconds before the auction ends. You can set it for any time you want. :)
    really..that's new no? (arguably it's been months since I even looked at that.. I don't really do ebay..)
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    Pegasus wrote:
    really..that's new no? (arguably it's been months since I even looked at that.. I don't really do ebay..)
    Nope, sniping services have always been that way. We've used one for years. :)
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Sniping has always been the way to go on eBay. Never bother with the petty bidding wars throughout the duration of the auction - all that does is raise the final price. Just watch it and snipe it when the time comes.


    sounds liek you sniped the origianl poster... good job!!!
  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    Maybe I'll go shill bid for an hour, just on shit i dont want. My little poke at "the man".
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    wolfbear wrote:
    Nope, sniping services have always been that way. We've used one for years. :)
    I'm talking about the eBay one..
  • KDH12
    KDH12 Posts: 2,096
    it is no different than, missing out on a poster from an artist's site in the last few seconds......

    AKA 10C

    clicking the buy button to get some stupid message about being temporally out of stock.... and going through that about 15 times like i did with the DC poster :(
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  • i am a target
    i am a target Posts: 808
    rorrim_weiv_raer wrote:
    Oh yeah, its their fault........ *shaking head icon if we had one*

    the fact that you can be outbid with thiry seconds less negates whatever notion of an auction there might be. whats the point of having it up for days at a time? why even have bidding until there's five minutes left in the action? if you go to an actual auction and someone makes a bid right before the auctioneer says "sold" then the bidding isn't just over..it's started over again.

    i don't know why they don't do it. it would make more money for ebay and for the sellers.
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    hobbes wrote:
    the fact that you can be outbid with thiry seconds less negates whatever notion of an auction there might be. whats the point of having it up for days at a time? why even have bidding until there's five minutes left in the action? if you go to an actual auction and someone makes a bid right before the auctioneer says "sold" then the bidding isn't just over..it's started over again.

    i don't know why they don't do it. it would make more money for ebay and for the sellers.
    yes as if inflations not already bad enough already... let find a way to make the sellers MORE money... :rolleyes:

    ebay has made it pretty easy these days to bid at the very last second... if you go on your my ebay page you can have a box that says how many seconds are left... just keep refreshing it and then put in a bid at the very last second... i learned the hard way that leaving 5 seconds to spare is too much sometimes...

    and to answer your question about why leave it up for days at a time? its to A) have their product noticed and B) allow people dumb enough to jack up the price to do so
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  • ECM
    ECM Posts: 1,687
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    just bid high
    youll win one eventually.
    i have gotten many of my rare gems off of the ebay.

    so it works for alot of people also ,...
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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,932
    that is how the game goes

    if you don;t snipe in some way you will get into some insane bidding war one upping each other. I did that for Benaroya and ended up shellng out 650, 2 weeks later it went for 425.

    It is simple either bid your max off that bat, or get ready to hit submit with 20 sec or less with the same amout. It sucks yes, but it is as fair as you can make it as anyone can do it. You can go in and change your max bid with 20 sec left too
  • KDH12
    KDH12 Posts: 2,096
    Evil Closet Monkey wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt


    got to love the closet monkey to come up with something totally irrelevant
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  • SBC03
    SBC03 Posts: 502
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  • KDH12
    KDH12 Posts: 2,096
    hobbes wrote:
    the fact that you can be outbid with thiry seconds less negates whatever notion of an auction there might be. whats the point of having it up for days at a time? why even have bidding until there's five minutes left in the action? if you go to an actual auction and someone makes a bid right before the auctioneer says "sold" then the bidding isn't just over..it's started over again.

    i don't know why they don't do it. it would make more money for ebay and for the sellers.


    kinda like basket ball why play the first 3 quarter might has well only play the 4th
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