Irritating Loss on Ebay tonight

badger

R&I won an auction for a 1953 Franklin PCGS Pr68Cam that had lots of bidders. R&I played fair and square (providing sniping is o.k.) Coin went up $800 in last seven seconds to $3300. I came in next to first.

The irritating thing was that coinsbyhucky sent me an email alerting me to the auction listed by 1dragons, then bid against me on the coin. This was distracting and I let R&I get a key coin. I need to learn to focus better.

Peaceman

mmmm.... The guy tells you about the coin and then bids against you..... think about that....

dtkk49a

Here's a link to the auction:
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GAT

Something ain't according to Hoyle here. I Have dealt with coinsbyhucky and have alway found them to be very honest people. I find it hard to believe they would shill.

nederveit

Why would you want it since you own a 1953 in 67DCAM? Yours is worth more registry points anyway. I was watching that auction, but it got out of my price range pretty quickly. I wonder if feedjake saw that one?

Cameonut

Not sure who you are irritated with Hucky or R&I. Looks to me like Hucky - so why mention R&I who won the auction under the Ebay rules?

I have lost more than a couple auctions to R&I - they have a client list with deep pockets. If he doesn't already have a buyer, it will be in his newsletter in a month or so (with appropriate markup) so you may get a second chance.

UncleJoe

UncleJoe

I let R&I get a key coin.

Not sure what this means. I will assume that you may have wanted to bid higher.

First, IMO, to have the best chance to win an eBay auction you MUST snipe. In this auction you bid three times on this coin with one of those times with 11 minutes left and your last time was with 3 minutes left. Why the impatience?

You need to bid with less than 10 SECONDS left to be effective. At that point you make your one and only bid for the highest amount you are willing to pay. More often than not you will pay less (and sometimes far less) than your max bid. Other times you lose but this should be no sweat because it sold for more than you were willing to pay.

Joe.

jmccarthy1983

<< <i>I let R&I get a key coin.

Not sure what this means. I will assume that you may have wanted to bid higher.

First, IMO, to have the best chance to win an eBay auction you MUST snipe. In this auction you bid three times on this coin with one of those times with 11 minutes left and your last time was with 3 minutes left. Why the impatience?

You need to bid with less than 10 SECONDS left to be effective. At that point you make your one and only bid for the highest amount you are willing to pay. More often than not you will pay less (and sometimes far less) than your max bid. Other times you lose but this should be no sweat because it sold for more than you were willing to pay.

Joe. >>



Bingo, Just dont do it to what i want, so stay away from the crap currency!

Cameonut

Joe
I couldn't agree with you more. My philosophy exactly.

Takes all the emotion out of the auction game. I win some, I lose some. But I am not chained to my computer to watch auctions close at all times of the day. And no "bidder frenzy" toward the end.