ebay is for gutless wimps
jacktheknife
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I've been sniped again!! Not because I was trying to get a coin for cheap, quite the contrary. The bid with several minutes to go was $341. I really wanted this coin (I know Rella is laughing right now) and bid strongly. In fact I was so worried about getting sniped that I bid $425. Then I thought, "Put in the bid to make sure you get the coin". So I then re-entered a max bid of $450, just for insurance. With one second to go, and I checked the bid history it was ONE second, I get sniped at $457!!! Little weasel!! Too afraid to go toe to toe so he sucker punches me. I give up with ebay.
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Russ, NCNE
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)
if you had $450 and it sold at $457 - then there were 2 other bidders that got you
or else it would have closed at $451
if you really want those - think what you would be willing to pay - and then double it - make the snipers bid very strong to "steal" your coin
Cameron Kiefer
I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.
Always looking for nice type coins
my local dealer
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
Ken
Wow, tough crowd. My point is this, how many of you at a live heritage auction jump up a yell out your max bid? I would imagine very few bid in this manner. It is wiser to bid more conservatively to assess the competition, bidding with the increments. If there is competition, then bid accordingly to your max. ebay allows for no assessment of the competition. I took the bid from $300 to $450 to try to assess the competition, if any. I would hardly call that weenie bidding. It would be different if I bed $310 and then whined about getting sniped. I would have placed other bids after seeing further competition at $450. In this case the seller loses.
<< <i>I took the bid from $300 to $450 to try to assess the competition >>
What you really did was telegraph your maximum to the competition. It was you who got assessed, not they.
Russ, NCNE
Ken
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
<< <i>As for ebay... often times it is better to just turn the computer off and go to a coin show... you get to see in person what you are buying. >>
Maybe for some people but around here you get to see the same stuff you have seen a hundred times over. Ebay Rocks in this part of the country.
Ken
Glad I was able to provide you all with some fodder for the evening. I'll see what I can come up with for tomorrow. If I ever need to settle a score at least I'll know where to find a bunch of tough guys.
The buyer could care less about the seller. The buyer wins. If you want to play eBay learn to snipe.
90% of my bids are placed with a sniping program. Set your max bid and walk away. This way you
don't broadcast that you are interested in the coin.
Onlyroosies
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
if you go to some $3 item that has a start price of $3 and put in your max bid of say $1000 - you may very well get it with the opening bid price
if you go to the same item and bid $3 and then bid again $30 then bid again $300 - it will have at least 3 bids but you may still get it at $3
so these gutless wimops either have deeper pockets or know how to play the game better - my feeling is deeper pockets
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This has got to be THE funniest thing that I have seen on these boards!!!!!!!
jacktheknife,I salute thee!!!!!!!!!
Thomas Aldrich
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This has got to be THE funniest thing that I have seen on these boards!!!!!!!
jacktheknife,I salute thee!!!!!!!!! >>
CORRECTION!! TWQG gets the credit,I'm sorry.
Thomas Aldrich
Me laughing at you? Never! OK maybe just a little bit...but now adding this makes it even better.
If you just woulda given up on that last 36-S and chased the 35-S from the same seller you wouldn't be in this spot. BTW...what would you pay for a 35-S right now?
RELLA
who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
twenty times.
Hah! I only think I'm tough.
We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
Rella,
I don't know why, but you always get me to grin ever so slightly and shake my head. I should have figured you'd come up with some icing for the cake. We'll, like Cameron suggested, I'm just movin' on. Done getting my undies in a bundle over an ass-whoopin' on ebay and another ass-whoopin over here!!!