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Best Line for missing a Snipe bid

Gotta catch em all.

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  • fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Strange...I was overbid by $1.

    Or, I can't believe I didn't win. After all, I set my max. bid to 80% of the price guide.

    OR, My kid signed in on my account and retracted my bid to use my Paypal slush fund on some tec-dec's.
    It is not that life is short, but that you are dead for so very long.
  • ...with 3 seconds to go, I hit the "confirm bid" button and ebay asks me to sign in again!!!!
  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,838 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I should have bid more!
  • raycycaraycyca Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭
    I bid the same amount too, but, lost by 1 second to an E-sniper.
    You only live life once, enjoy it like it's your last day. It just MIGHT be!

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  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
    5 seconds to go and my wife flashed me right when I went to hit the submit button image
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have missed snipping on so many different auctions for so many different reasons ..............

    usually I will have the window open and ready to snipe with x minutes to go, and take a short walk out of the office, and get distracted for any number or reasons


    I always get mad at myself........

    but most of the time, my bid would have been an under bid anyway, so that eases the pain
  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭


    << <i>...with 3 seconds to go, I hit the "confirm bid" button and ebay asks me to sign in again!!!! >>




    Been there done that!image
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like "FireLine" don't miss too many strikes that way.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never lost a snipe on an item I wanted. Cheers, RickO
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    Ihad some i was glad later that i WAS out sniped!image
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My spotter miscalculated the range image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275
    I can relate to several of the above.

    But in addition - "I needed to use the restroom"
    Happened to me once. I thought I could hold it in, but in the end I thought I could make my business quick, but no such luck!
    Didnt care that much, there was a nicer example of the same type coin ending two or three days later - and I won that one...lol
  • TinyTiny Posts: 2,598

    " I never miss a Snipe, I all ways bid $5000. more than the current bid" ain't missed one yet
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    The dog ate my mouse!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    With a minute to go, my wife entered the room. She slowly caressed my shoulders. She whispered impure thoughts into my ear. Her massages drifted to my lower extremities. This continued on as the timer counted down slowly. At ten seconds she took an uncomfortably strong grip and whispered horrific Lorena Bobbit like sayings. I gasped and slowly holstered my sniping finger and proceeded to back away from the computer.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • JBNJBN Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm no expert to be sure. Don't bid on a lot of stuff on ebay.

    I'd guess its partially a 'thrill of the chase' type of thing. Just my guess.

    If I want a piece, I submit my max bid days in advance.

    No muss, no fuss.

    Not as thrilling to be sure, but I'm not glued to my computer, either.

    Am I missing something, aside from the previously mentioned 'thrill'?
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm no expert to be sure. Don't bid on a lot of stuff on ebay.

    I'd guess its partially a 'thrill of the chase' type of thing. Just my guess.

    If I want a piece, I submit my max bid days in advance.

    No muss, no fuss.

    Not as thrilling to be sure, but I'm not glued to my computer, either.

    Am I missing something, aside from the previously mentioned 'thrill'? >>



    I am not sure what you're saying as I fell asleep before I finished reading your thread....zzzz zzzzz zzzz
    It is not that life is short, but that you are dead for so very long.
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Shucked peanut shells jammed the "enter" key. This really happened. Like the time I drove this other guys car and when I applied the brake, a bottle rolled out from under the seat and stopped the break pedal from going all the way down...I was half way through the intersection before I stopped. Good thing no one was coming or law enforcement wasn't around...Sir, please explain how this bottle of Early Times got under your seat?. ~sheesh~

    FYI: Now I know why they make flask bottles.
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    "Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
  • BaseballAbsBaseballAbs Posts: 2,621
    I had to sneeze, sometimes you just got to sneeze. You know the kind that takes three to get it over with. Needless to say i was a little late hitting the button. I went to bed not to excited i missed that one.
    Winner of the "You Suck!" award March 17, 2010 by LanLord, doh, 123cents and Bear.
  • Set the alarm for PM instead of AM.
  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684
    I was doing my homework.

    I went to the CU forums to kill 2 minutes and forgot.

    -Ben T. * Collector of Errors! * Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797
    I don't have any excuses......oops yes I do, at the very last second I received a PM from Mad Marty...it said....never mind, thank you....image
  • mikeygmikeyg Posts: 1,002



    not sure why but I am missing out on alot of bids lately.I think someone is bidding 5000.00 on every lot I go for.image
  • robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Computer just frozed up on me after hitting the snipe button...
  • Honey, it's time for dinner! Get's me every time..image
    Ilikacoinsawholebuncha

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