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103 bids in less than two hours, but just 3 bidders

AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,802 ✭✭✭✭✭

Why do they do it this way? One bidder must have spent 20 minutes bidding....lol
Think he'll be the winner in the end?
bob :)
https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/334810150631?item=334810150631

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  • Clackamas1Clackamas1 Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭✭✭

    6 days left.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,802 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Clackamas1 said:
    6 days left.

    Should calm down tomorrow, eh?

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • JoeLewisJoeLewis Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭✭

    That stuff is great for the seller. As a buyer, why not just place your max bid at the last minute? Why give the other bidders time to convince themselves to stretch…bid more than they originally wanted to?

  • WalkerloverWalkerlover Posts: 952 ✭✭✭✭

    @JoeLewis said:
    That stuff is great for the seller. As a buyer, why not just place your max bid at the last minute? Why give the other bidders time to convince themselves to stretch…bid more than they originally wanted to?

    Maybe they need to see where they stand in the bidding so to have an idea what max bid will work

  • alaura22alaura22 Posts: 3,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 28, 2023 9:20PM

    @Walkerlover said:

    @JoeLewis said:
    That stuff is great for the seller. As a buyer, why not just place your max bid at the last minute? Why give the other bidders time to convince themselves to stretch…bid more than they originally wanted to?

    Maybe they need to see where they stand in the bidding so to have an idea what max bid will work

    The max bid is what you are willing to pay, no more, no less
    You should already know that number!

  • alaura22alaura22 Posts: 3,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 28, 2023 9:27PM

    @JoeLewis said:
    That stuff is great for the seller. As a buyer, why not just place your max bid at the last minute? Why give the other bidders time to convince themselves to stretch…bid more than they originally wanted to?

    Then you get tagged with being a "SNIPER".............. :)

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd blame it on the cat lying on my keyboard.

    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Inchworming his way to underbidder status.

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's probably one bidder with a high max, and the second bidder...

    Put's in a bid.

    eBay: You have been out bid. Do you want to bid $3 $4 $5.

    Underbidder: Click on $3

    eBay: High bid is $4. You have been out bid. Do you want to bid $5 $6 $7

    Lather rinse repeat.

    What I really hate is how easy it is on that app dialog to miss that you are now the HIGH bidder and keep clicking to push up your high bid unnecessarily.

    Then again the UI is not designed to make it good for the bidder, but rather for eBay,

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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,360 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BStrauss3 said:
    It's probably one bidder with a high max, and the second bidder...

    Put's in a bid.

    eBay: You have been out bid. Do you want to bid $3 $4 $5.

    Underbidder: Click on $3

    eBay: High bid is $4. You have been out bid. Do you want to bid $5 $6 $7

    Lather rinse repeat.

    What I really hate is how easy it is on that app dialog to miss that you are now the HIGH bidder and keep clicking to push up your high bid unnecessarily.

    Then again the UI is not designed to make it good for the bidder, but rather for eBay,

    those bid boxes are relatively new is it because of smart phones or bored programmers?

  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 5,897 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My strategy is to go one increment at a time, even if it takes say, 30 bids to find out what the max bid is at the moment, I guess 3 were trying that?????

    My online coin store - https://desertmoonnm.com/
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That design looks like transfer from the bag the coin resided in.

    I just don't understand......................

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,154 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 29, 2023 6:20AM

    @BuffaloIronTail said:
    That design looks like transfer from the bag the coin resided in.

    I just don't understand......................

    Pete

    That's what textile toning is.

    $260 is barely wholesale price.

  • rte592rte592 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 29, 2023 7:59AM

    Is that what pecking order looks like?
    Sometimes I see a high bidders name stacked up multiple times.
    IF that's the case someone else may have been having fun helping the bidder spend their money.

    891 high bidder stacked six deep.
    I could jump in and give a demonstration, but I wouldn't want to be the high bidder at those prices.

  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 29, 2023 8:16AM

    @AUandAG said:
    Why do they do it this way? One bidder must have spent 20 minutes bidding....lol
    Think he'll be the winner in the end?
    bob :)
    https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/334810150631?item=334810150631

    He literally spent over 5 minutes placing incremental bids.

    3 rim nicks away from Good
  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Textile toning is interesting as a bit of numismatic history, so I can see a small premium. Only rational explanation I can think of for this type of bidding is that each bidder is fishing, not knowing what a reasonable max bid should be. Even so, a tad bit early.

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