Off topic but could apply to coins I guess.
coinrookie
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Tried to snipe a 70 vette off ebay. Waited to the last 20 seconds. Put in the high bid. Then get a message to go to another page and give a credit card number. It seems that when a bid reaches a certain dollar amount that you have to supply this as security for a bid. By the time I got back to the auction page it had closed and never showed my bid. So learned a lesson that ebay has some strange policies. I tracked this car for 3 days. Almost no sleep. Been searching for a car just like this one car for 5 years. You would not believe the disappointment I feel. But let this be a lesson if you try to snipe some high dollar coins. I would like to register a complaint to e-bay on this policy but am sure it would do no good. So that was a really sucky Labor day. Atleast I did get a nice SBA from Marty`s auction. As much as I love coins it doesnt quite equal out.
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Bummer though! I know how you feel. Kinda like when I snipe a coin and it takes me to the login page because I got to eBay from a link here and never signed in. grrr......I think the limit is $10K or maybe $20K. It's been a long time since I bid on something that expensive.
<< <i>Sniping a car?!?! Hmmm.....
Bummer though! I know how you feel. Kinda like when I snipe a coin and it takes me to the login page because I got to eBay from a link here and never signed in. grrr......I think the limit is $10K or maybe $20K. It's been a long time since I bid on something that expensive. >>
Yea dog. If you hit 15,000.00 You have to have a secured bid I guess. What a crock. If I could not pay, I would not bid. Stupid policy cost me my dream car. Tried to place an early bid but it kept getting bumped a hundred bucks, Probably a shill bidder. Live by the snipe and die by the snipe I guess.
Joe
This certainly does apply to coins. Take it from someone who has gone on wild goose chases all over the northeast (and to Canada) in search of that dream car, you probably got off easy in the end. Unless you saw the car first (sight-seen bidding) chances are it was not as described. Why would cars be anything different than coins on e-bay? I too was on a 5 year quest for the "right" classic car and whenever I arrived at the seller's home I was sorely dissappointed 19 out of 20 times. There's a nice '70 Vette for you out there but you're going to have to go see it first and pay fair for good quality. I would never buy a car off E-bay unless I had seen it in the past. Photos usually don't show flaws and seller's usually don't go out of their way to enlighten you. And in the case of honest and ethical classic used car dealers, they are far and few between.
Makes coins look like the Garden of Eden.
roadrunner