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Anybody else miss a card on eBay just now?

BillBobBillBob Posts: 72 ✭
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EBay is having trouble. I was waiting to snipe a card and got hosed. I know half of you are thinking "Why don't you use eSnipe?", but I enjoy the sport of manual sniping. Just wondering if anybody else lost out.
Bill Roberts

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  • AROD626AROD626 Posts: 127
    I did last night. I lost a PSA 9 1970 Gibson. My bid stayed until the end and the email said "Item Not Won" but it sold for the price lower than my bid.
    Always looking for pre 1990 rookies and stars, pre 1970 baseball (all) and HOF game used.

    tradelist
  • jaxxrjaxxr Posts: 1,258 ✭✭
    This afternoon, while watching some auctions, several times, my bidding page showed no items at all. Going back from the start seemed to clear it up. Tough on potential snipers though.
    This aint no party,... this aint no disco,.. this aint no fooling around.
  • BugOnTheRugBugOnTheRug Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭
    Yep,
    My ebay home page was all messed up when I just checked recently. It showed I lost a set that I sniped. I fiddled around the sight, then I went back to my e-mail to see if I had won. I did, so then went back on e-bay and everything was back to normal................must have been those darn solar flares.

    BOTR
  • ydsotterydsotter Posts: 500 ✭
    Do those sniper services take the fun out of it for you guys?
    The sniping services have been great to me...
    except last week there was a PSA 9 1975 louie dampier that I really needed... it's the last dampier I needed to complete the player run..
    and I had some obscene amount of money to snipe it with...
    well, auctionsniper screwed up and the card ended up selling for $22.00~
    so.... maybe a combination of both sniping and esniping is a good plan...
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  • VirtualizardVirtualizard Posts: 1,936 ✭✭
    ydsotter,

    I lost about 8 auctions in January because snipes weren't placed. I emailed my snipe service, telling them how upset I was. They told me to place my snipe orders twice. Although it's a minor inconvenience, I now place two snipes for every auction I'm interested in. If the first one goes through, the second is just rejected as "not meeting minimum bid". If not, the second one will hopefully do the trick.

    I have not lost one auction (at least due to snipe error) since. Try it. It works.

    JEB.
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭

    ydsotter - If there's a card that I "just have to have",
    I'll put in a bid with my sniping service, but I'll also put in a manual bid for a little bit less.

    To eBay, it just looks like two bids from one bidder, so you don't end up paying any more.

    Pix of 'My Kids'

    "How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
  • NuyauwkaNuyauwka Posts: 157
    Paul,
    I had oput in a manual bid once on a item I also snipe because it was close to the end and I thought I might miss out, I did not think Ebay would take both bids, but when my snipe bid came in with 4 seconds left it overtook my manual bid. When I checked bid history at the end of the auction, I had the last 2 bids. I outbid myself by the minimum, check bid history on Ebay #2708122194.
    If it's worth doing..It's worth overdoing!!
  • brucemobrucemo Posts: 358 ✭
    I use eSnipe. One of my bids didn't go through today, the explanation in the eSnipe email was that eBay had technical problems.

    bruce
    Collecting '52 Bowman, '53 Bowman B&W, and '56 Topps, in PSA-7.
    Website: http://www.brucemo.com
    Email: brucemo@seanet.com
  • VirtualizardVirtualizard Posts: 1,936 ✭✭


    << <i>Paul,
    I had oput in a manual bid once on a item I also snipe because it was close to the end and I thought I might miss out, I did not think Ebay would take both bids, but when my snipe bid came in with 4 seconds left it overtook my manual bid. When I checked bid history at the end of the auction, I had the last 2 bids. I outbid myself by the minimum, check bid history on Ebay #2708122194. >>



    Nuyauwka,

    Your first bid was not high enough to outbid tleppyredsox' bid of $40.01, so your snipe bid was placed and covered the minimum bid increment ($1.00 in this case). You didn't outbid yourself, your original high bid just shows up because it was less than the necessary high bid.

    Hope that makes sense.

    JEB.
  • interchangesinterchanges Posts: 864 ✭
    No doubt about it, ebay has brain damage right now.
    If you need something, better bid your max now.

    I was checking out some 54 topps hockey cards, it showed 2 hours left, clicked on the auction, and it was over.


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  • BuckwheatBuckwheat Posts: 644 ✭
    I couldn't get on this afternoon to bid on a couple of cards. The cards went for much less than they would have because of the glitch. ($400 instead of $600+) Ebay has an explanation posted that just said they had problems. Esnipe couldn't get through either. OUCH

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  • NuyauwkaNuyauwka Posts: 157
    Jeb,
    Thanks for clearing that up, that confused me at the time. All sorts of trouble tonight with Ebay, I just had 2 auctions not go through, but luckily they did not get bid on and I was able to contact the seller and purchase the card. One card was a PSA 8 1971 OPC Orr All/Star, I would of been pretty hot if I missed it. I got it at hte opening bid which was 66% of book..So all is well!!
    If it's worth doing..It's worth overdoing!!
  • WabittwaxWabittwax Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭
    Jeb, do you get charged twice from your sniper service for placing 2 bids?
  • VirtualizardVirtualizard Posts: 1,936 ✭✭


    << <i>Jeb, do you get charged twice from your sniper service for placing 2 bids? >>



    Wabbitwax,

    I forgot that some services charge per snipe (or a % of winning bids). The service I use has a flat monthly fee.

    JEB.
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