This ever happen when you snipe one.

theboz11

I picked up that Edward set with a 3 second snipe. The gent that I beat out bid at exactly the same time to the second. We were both 25% above the next bidder. this morning I receive this email and thought it was cute.


"Dear theboz11,

Ah, it is just too cruel. Not only am I deprived of the set of Edward VII
medals --I was the underbidder-- but I lost to someone whose eBay i.d. is
one of my nicknames. (Not one of my favorites to begin with.)

That's all
I had to say. I will now resume licking my wounds."






Anybody else ever get after auction emails.

Hussulo

Guilty I'm afraid.

I have done it a couple of times the last one I can remember was of a British QEII penny die cap. I put in a big bid in but was beaten to it. So I emailed the the buyer to congratulate him and asked if he ever fancied selling it, to let me know as I would be interested in it. I also asked him if I could use a picture of it on my website which he kindly allowed me to do.
You can find it here:

http://www.coinsgb.com/Error_Coins/Die_Cap.html

It isn't the greatest looking coin but I haven't come across any other British die cap coins before or since.

coinkat

once... I kinda felt bad winning the coin, but all seems to be fair at auction

TwoKopeiki

Cool error, Hus!

I've sent a few "congratulations" emails, myself. But never received one...

coinpictures

Heh. There's a gentleman on the Bay who collects the exact same philatelic material I do (handstamped and printed cancels on Civil War era revenue stamps) and we are constantly outbidding one another, sometime to genuinely stupid levels. We've both sent congratulatory and "Argh!" emails back and forth. He usually gets the better of me though, as he has deeper pockets.

SYRACUSIAN

I've been in the underbidder's shoes but reacted differently.


Long time ago, a wonderful 1901 florin went for $80 or something on ebay, fixed price listing ,very bad photo. I assumed that the listing was going to end (second time) without a single bid, after which I had already arranged with the seller, to buy the coin for $65. Pure greediness.

But life never goes as planned, thank god. Someone had placed a snipe and won the coin. I was devastated but reacted swiftly. I emailed the winner and offered him to pay the full price for his newly won florin AND give him my own florin for free, a low end dipped unc,in exchange for the one he had just won. The fellow accepted, a nice grandfather who had just started collecting British florins with his grandson. When the coin arrived by mail to him, he emailed me and told me that if he knew in advance how nice it was, he would have refused my offer, but in a perfect gentlemanly way, he went ahead with our deal and sent me the coin. Phew, (many) lesson(s) learned.

farthing

I have sent congratulations emails a number of times to the winning bidder when I have been overbid on an item or when something I was watching sold for more than I was willing to bid.

Hyperion

when I bought my first few coins on ebay I was targetting the same things as one gentleman in particular...
I sent him a "curses" email after being outbid and he responded. we actually went back and forth via email (primarily when I saw something I thought he would like when it was outside of my price range, he had deeper pockets), or when he saw something he thought would interest me..
it was odd but nice to see the courtesy being extended....

MSD61

My question is how do you send a message to another bidder? I've tried only to be blocked by ebay with a message to the sort that unless I
had direct dealings with the member I can't contact them?

lordmarcovan

No, I have never received such polite emails from a sniping victim, but I have sent one or two, with a rather congratulatory tone.

Perhaps coincidentally (or not), in one such instance, the fella who outbid me later ended up as a customer on one of my auctions, and one day, out of the blue, he gave me the piece he'd sniped away from me, as a gift! Generous guy! He knew it was something I wanted for my daughter's Victoria collection- it is an interesting hexagonal medal with the veiled "old head" on the obverse and nothing but a heart on the reverse (any ideas?) It wasn't an expensive item- he'd sniped me for about twenty bucks or so. But the gesture was very much appreciated and I gave him some stuff when I shipped the St. Patrick halfpenny I'd sold him.

You should offer to send your poor, wounded underbidder a gag gift "consolation" prize, in the spirit of good sportsmanship.

lordmarcovan

PS- Dimitri, re. that 1901 florin: you suck.

You DO know who to summon when you wanna sell that one, eh?

Actually, if I remember correctly, the 1901 florin currently in Victoria's Victorian type set was a gift from you- another impaired UNC- lovely, but for some unfortunate hairlines.

SYRACUSIAN

Actually, I had bought a shilling a couple of weeks earlier from the same seller, which allowed me to send you the old shilling too. The one I had sent you back then, is technically superior to the one I kept, but I'm a sucker for colours. But I remember the florin too, there's definetely some room for improvement there, so I'll keep it in mind.

And the prices were in GBP, not USD, with a ~1:1.5 ratio between the two currencies back then.

theboz11

MS61- the way to contact a ebay seller is to click on his name and a new page will appear. On the left side of that page is a link" Contact Member"

Teg

In 2003 I sniped a 1697 farthing, with TERTVS instead of TERTIVS.
This was at 1 am. The bid history was

Me $280 5 seconds before
ohnosecond (Colin Cooke) $275 7 seconds before
Someone else $5 5 days before

Within 5 minutes I had an email from Colin (he did not know my ebay I.D.)

From member: ohnosecond

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Congratulations.

I only know of three specimens to date. The first one I acquired was in 1994. The second one turned up in 1999 with a private collector.

Yours is now the third.

Kind regards,
Colin Cooke

I spoke to him the next day and he was happy the coin had gone to a 'known' collection.
My max was $300, this made him think his $275 was correct - as he would have been reselling it.
We both wondered what the, presumably very happy, seller made of it!
Colin's advice was "never tell them why you bid so high - they may have another one"