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When bidding on eBay against a professional dealer, do you ever jack up your bid?

RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
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When bidding on eBay against a professional dealer, do you ever jack up your bid? If it is someone you know and have confidence in his/her abilities, does it ever embolden you to raise your bid, knowing that a professional has approved the coin?

I know I have. image
My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That would require me to bid on ebay, which I now refuse to do....
    Early Dollar Set
  • stiffystiffy Posts: 407
    If I feel they have slighted me, or looked at me funny, then I might try to drive them up to their maximum, just because they were willing to pay it.
  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    yep !
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  • slickpickslickpick Posts: 44 ✭✭
    Actually makes me bid where I might not have before.
    "Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, for fear of getting burned." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    YES!! Bid the wankas up!! image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    No. What somebody else is bidding has no bearing on what I'm willing to pay. Besides, the only dealer interested in the same stuff as I is Marty, and he's so stinking rich I can't compete anyway.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why?

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unbelievable Question number 2.....image

    and then pay more if a win comes through. NOT !!

    Ken
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    No. I know what I'm willing to pay, and that's what I enter in the sniping software -- not a dollar more, not a dollar less.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think you guys are missing the point. It's not about the dollars and cents. It's about the confidence that the coin is what it is supposed to be.

    I am not especially confident bidding on images and even less confident out of my area of concentration. I might see a coin that looks nice and usually make a low-ball bid. Most times I do not stand a chance. If the coin is great, I lose handily. If it is a dog, I might get stuck with it. If I see a capable dealer bid on the coin, perhaps one who has actually seen the coin in person, knowing that he has confidence that he can sell the coin for a profit, it might raise my bid. I do not buy much on ebay and have never won a coin this way.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No. It's not cool to make sport of someone else's livelihood.

    peacockcoins

  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think you guys are missing the point. It's not about the dollars and cents. It's about the confidence that the coin is what it is supposed to be. >>



    Hmmm..... so you are saying you do not trust your own knowledge ? I trust mine.

    Ken
  • ABC123ABC123 Posts: 2,627
    Always---Let them mix it up with the rest of us collectors !
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,554 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think you guys are missing the point. It's not about the dollars and cents. It's about the confidence that the coin is what it is supposed to be.

    I am not especially confident bidding on images and even less confident out of my area of concentration. I might see a coin that looks nice and usually make a low-ball bid. Most times I do not stand a chance. If the coin is great, I lose handily. If it is a dog, I might get stuck with it. If I see a capable dealer bid on the coin, perhaps one who has actually seen the coin in person, knowing that he has confidence that he can sell the coin for a profit, it might raise my bid. I do not buy much on ebay and have never won a coin this way. >>



    I believe someone did this when JadeRareCoin had a bid on a coin that looked "funny" but that they had seen in person and knew to be very nice........bids were low, until Dennis mentioned stuff about it here then someone went in and jacked the price up.....I don't recall the final on it though....

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    This question sounds familiar. image
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    Didn't wanna get me no trade
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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    If you ever seen an auction with the question below, put in a $23 snipe image

    Hi, is the proof set pictured the one that will be delivered? Thanks, Marty
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,572 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If I feel they have slighted me, or looked at me funny, then I might try to drive them up to their maximum, just because they were willing to pay it. >>



    Sounds like a great way to buy a coin that you never really intended to buy.image


    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165 ✭
    I'm not at all sure that I am understanding the question but I agree with Ziggy about bidding what I intend to bid, not a dollar less nor a

    dollar more and if I am deadly serious about winning actually I won't bid at all until the last possible point in time. I do not want to drive the

    price upward and with that, I also agree with this statement:



    << <i> No. What somebody else is bidding has no bearing on what I'm willing to pay. >>

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    No, I have enough knowledge to know what I'm bidding on.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson

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