Blasted snipper

Oh I hate those ebay snippers. I had a bid on a Topcon Super D that needed
the mirror supports redone. Something I could have done. For almost the
whole time it was listed not one bid, so today I placed a bid, 2 hours to go
got outbid, so I layed another much higher bid onto it, One bad came in but
mine was still higher. Right at 4 secs to go a sniper hit and jumped the bid
by $1.00 over mine.
Pissed am I? YES.
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Starlord

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo3WuwimDHw
Turn up the speakers.
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Alan Browne

Re: Blasted snipper

Poor baby. Didn't win his auction on eBay and now he wants to whine about
it.
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Doug Robbins

Re: Blasted snipper

Well I have had the joke on them, I won an auction for a Topcon 135mm
telephoto lens just now and what's funny, it was down in the misc lens area
and only one other user had placed a cheap bid on it. So I took the money I
would have used for the super D and threw it at the lens and got it. 5 hours
of my bid being top and not a soul tryed after my bid.
the old snipers missed a good one this time.
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Starlord

Re: Blasted snipper

I must have missed where you proved you could tell how a bid was placed.


Spaam_this@hotmail.com

Re: Blasted snipper

and I still say it was a sniper and I still would like to distroy all
sinping software.
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Starlord

Re: Blasted snipper

"Starlord" <starlord@sidewalkastronomy.info> wrote in
:
One of the charters of this group is that, if you're gonna whine
about eBay, you need to put that in the header so those of us who are tired
of hearing about people dropping the soap and getting surprised by the
result can filter you out.
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Al Denelsbeck

Re: Blasted snipper

The point of Nicolas' post is that if everyone snipes (i.e. an 'ebay
sniping auction'), it's the equivalent of a sealed bid auction, because
the auction is over before the bids can be disclosed to others.
Everyone bids without any info about their competitors.


Spaam_this@hotmail.com

Re: Blasted snipper

Bidding during the last few seconds is useful if there haven't been any bids
on the item to that point. - People who might be on the fence about buying
it will be discouraged by the fact that no one else has bid. But I usually
don't have the time to bother with it, so I bid earlier, and bid the max
that I am willing to pay. What amazes me about eBay, is that there are so
many people who bid more for items than I can buy them for brand new,
untouched by human hands! I've seen things go for twice what they are
worth.......


William Graham

Re: Blasted snipper

"Nicholas O. Lindan" <see@sig.com> schreef in bericht
No, it is not, see the word 'sealed' in the sentence. This means
the bids are not disclosed to the others. So sniping is not
possible. You do not overpay, and the seller gets a fair price.
(Assumed that there are enough bidders).
Ben


Ben Brugman

Re: Blasted snipper

On 2006-11-01 18:09:41 +0000, "Starlord"
<starlord@sidewalkastronomy.info> said:
It's an auction, not a charity. You got beaten by somebody who would
pay more than you. It is not relevent whether or not the other person
used sniping software or did it himself at the last minute. If you'd
bid to the maximum your limits allow then you lost the auction because
somebody else could and did bid more. Period.
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