Did you ever want to email someone that was bidding...

lawnmowerman

on one or more of the auctions you planned to snipe and say quit raising the price! I just cant figure out why people insist on raising the prices by getting into bidding wars. I can see if they dont have a snipe service and have to go somewhere therefore they bid. The auctions I won, these two fools went back and forth raising the prices. I just wanted to emai one of them and say did you ever here of snipping or do you just like to throw your money away?

matt

KOBEcollector

Your loaded , stop complaining

Griffins

I don't understand why anyone places a bid before the last 5 seconds. Pointless and self destructive.

BigRedMachine

<< <i>I don't understand why anyone places a bid before the last 5 seconds. Pointless and self destructive. >>



I've long thought one could bid $5 on a dog turd and someone would outbid you just for the sake of winning. I couldn't agree more with the above quote.

shawn

edited to ask.......more cowbell??

BigRedMachine

Stingray had the link

cowbell

lawnmowerman

<< <i>Stingray had the link

cowbell >>



Its in my sig line

matt

lawnmowerman

<< <i>Your loaded , stop complaining

>>




matt

blindflyer

Depends.... if I am looking to affect the market, I will often put bids on product I dont' really want to win, but want to drive the price up. For instance, I own several Bazooka back Allen & Ginter cards (numbered to /25). It is in my interest in keep their value high... therefore I will attempt to drive up the price, hoping to eventually get sniped in the end (or, better yet, bid the price up without becoming the high bidder). It's worked great so far. Of course, on occasion I'll accidentally win an auction .... but, my point is, bidding without the snipe is great to help drive the market from a seller's/owners perspective.

If I want to seriously win something for cheap, I will only bid by snipe.

-t

lostdart58

If I didn't spend time in these forums, I would know NOTHING about snipe services...... I think the average ebay bidder doesn't realize that there is such a thing.

ctsoxfan

<< <i>If I didn't spend time in these forums, I would know NOTHING about snipe services...... I think the average ebay bidder doesn't realize that there is such a thing. >>



Actually, I think you are way off here - it seems like sniping is more the rule rather than the exception, especially with cards. I'm surprised to read that someone here just signed up with a snipe service today - they have been around for years. I am back in a buying phase on Ebay, and I always lose half the stuff I bid on to someone who outbids me, and I always snipe - which means they are also.

jradke4

I dont use a snipe service. So there are times will just keep bidding if I really want the item. There is one bidder that I go up against for some of my Favre's doesnt like the fact that I outbid him and compete with him for the same cards. He actually blocked me from bidding on any of his cards.

sagard

The main advantage of sniping is that if you are going against a less sophisticated Ebay buyer they will never see you coming and you get the item at a lower price. The other big items are that you probably won't get shilled by a run of the mill shill bidder. They can and do still get you from time to time, but you lower your exposure. For me the biggest benifit is that I don't forget to bid.

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

<< <i>If I didn't spend time in these forums, I would know NOTHING about snipe services...... I think the average ebay bidder doesn't realize that there is such a thing. >>



I also learned about sniping from this board. I collected on the internet for 3 years w/o a clue. I think its a great idea but I have yet to sign up.


I like to bid because some see my user name and they have FF questions/answers/versions. Going back and forth on bids is trying to intimidate the other as you want to "knock the person out." If you creep up from behind and only get one hit,what if it wasnt hard enough? Some times you wish you hit harder.

daveryan2001

If it is something I really want, I snipe it.

If it's something I don't care that much about, but would like
it for a certain price, I just place a max bid on it, go to bed,
and the next day see if I won it.

Of course what usually happens in the second scenario is that
I lose the auction by 50 cents or a dollar.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>
I also learned about sniping from this board. I collected on the internet for 3 years w/o a clue. I think its a great idea but I have yet to sign up. >>


A few years ago when I first started bidding on ebay I learned to snipe. People kept doing it to me and I would get quit upset so I said the only way to win was to snipe myself. I got really good at it always getting my bid in within the last 5 seconds. One time, I dont remember what happened ( I think my computer freaked out ) but I got my bid in the same exact second the auction ended. I thought that was really cool!
I did however learn about snipe services from board members. After winning my auctions last night by using justsnipe I cant see doing it any other way

matt

lawnmowerman

edit: dp

matt

shagrotn77

Matt,

I did exactly what you're asking once. I was hot after a PSA 9 '60 McCovey and these 2 mo mos jacked the price WAY up, even with days left in the auction. I e-mailed them and told them to start sniping. In the end, none of us wound up winning the card (Dmitri did).

Shag

Allen

I never used a snipe service for a long time and just did it manually like matt said. I got back into buying a lot about 6 months ago and I kept loosing so someone here told me about bidnapper and after 10 days I was hooked. I got a 1 year subscription and it was money well spent. I love the thought of other bidders banging on their desks when they loose.