What's the most you have "over-sniped" or "over-bid" a card you needed or wanted

frankhardy · July 15, 2012 11:34AM

What is the most you have "over-sniped" or "over-bid" a card on Ebay? I just set a record for myself. It was a very pleasant surprise!

I needed a Mark McGwire Refractor card for my Cardinals team set run. I have been looking for that card for over 18 months. I finally found one available on Ebay. At first, I sniped it for $77+. A day later, I changed the snipe to $101+. I finally changed it yesterday to $201+........ drum roll please.....

..... I got the card for $9.54

I was really happy! No, I didn't think the card would go that high, but I had to be sure. Actually, I thought the card would go for $30 to $50 because there are a bunch of McGwire collectors out there.

ThoseBackPages · July 15, 2012 11:38AM

that is awesome!

none come to mind for me, but i will say that sniping is fantastic and i have no idea why everyone doesnt use it

stuckinMA · July 15, 2012 11:39AM

$0, I'm old school apparently. I bid my max, including cost of s/h, whenever I find a card I want...that's it.

Foo3112 · July 15, 2012 11:51AM

That is pretty awesome.

Recently there was a Jose Canseco lot up for grabs on eBay. The lot included almost 600 cards and they were non duplicates. Also came with an auto and tons of odd ball hard to come by cards. So the starting bid was set at 9.99. I was eying the auction for all 5 days and then in the last couple of minutes, still not 1 bid. I believe it was the way the seller titled the auction because Canseco stuff still sells pretty good for the most part. Anyways, I placed a bid in the last seconds for $40. Shipping was already at $20 so that would of been $60 total. Only reason I put for 40 was because there wasn't any bids in the last few seconds. I would of gone up to $80.

Turns out I won the auction for the starting price of $9.99 plus $20 shipping. I was super stoked. Once I got the cards (which came in a binder which was completely full, in the 3rd to last page - There was a 1991 Donruss elite card in Mint condition! I just sold the Elite card for $42 so not only did I get that Canseco lot for free but I also put some extra chump change back in my pocket.

digicat · July 15, 2012 12:20PM

I once set a $51 snipe on a card that I ended up winning for $0.99. I was the only bidder.

PowderedH2O · July 15, 2012 12:39PM

I bid $1050 for an autograph awhile back. I won for $66.

HeadsUp38 · July 15, 2012 2:50PM

I once put in a bid for $1000+ on a rare Mickey Mouse/Greta Garbo card and I believe I won it for less than $150. There have been a couple of other instances like that over the years, but that's the last one to come to mind.

Craig H

CollectorAtWork · July 15, 2012 4:15PM

My most recent "over-snipe" was when I put a snipe of $1150 for a 1931 W517 Mini Lou Gehrig, and ended up winning it for $158.

swartz1 · July 15, 2012 9:26PM

perfect thread for the reasoning of high BIN...

jmmiller777 · July 15, 2012 11:38PM

perfect thread for self identification of serious compulsive disorders.

72skywalker · July 15, 2012 11:55PM

I put a bid of $50 for a $25 card and did not win. I only need three cards to complete the 2004 Upper Deck Yankee Classic Scripts set and I do not see the Jim Leyritz that often but I am sort of glad I did not win because I did not really want to pay over double book for any card.

dontippet · July 16, 2012 12:05AM

Recently bought a group of tickets. I set my snipe for $160.85 and won them for under $24.21. I kept hoping to get them for less than 10% of my snipe, cause I thought that would be really cool. I still got an awesome deal.

Morgoth · July 16, 2012 1:35AM

I put a snipe in on a 1979 Willie Stargell PSA 8 of 150, thinking it was 3X what it would go for and won it for 125.

Hank36 · July 16, 2012 2:43AM

A few months back, I think I bid something like $50 for a 1977 Mark Fidrych Wendy's disc--the only one I'd ever seen offered for sale, and the only Fidrych disc I needed (or so I thought). I won it for the starting bid for something like $2.25.

And yeah, then I discovered that Fidrych had a 1978 Saga disc. Still have not seen one offered for sale. I'm really not sure why I care--those discs are fugly--but I've run out of other Fidrych cards to buy.

OneBigDummy · July 16, 2012 3:37AM

<< $0, I'm old school apparently. I bid my max, including cost of s/h, whenever I find a card I want...that's it. >>

I'm pretty much the same way. I wait until less than 10 seconds before the auction is about to end and bid my max, and if I don't get it then it wasn't meant to be mine.

dontippet · July 16, 2012 3:53AM

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<< $0, I'm old school apparently. I bid my max, including cost of s/h, whenever I find a card I want...that's it. >>

I'm pretty much the same way. I wait until less than 10 seconds before the auction is about to end and bid my max, and if I don't get it then it wasn't meant to be mine. >>

Why not just snipe. It does the exact same thing, except you don't have to time your bids.

WinPitcher · July 16, 2012 4:43AM

When I wanted a Mars Attacks card I'd throw in an all in bid.
I would always worry that someone else as crazy as myself would do the
same thing.

goraiders · July 16, 2012 4:53AM

I needed the last psa8 for my 72 set,looked over a yr. for it,when it came up I sniped $550.99,no way
I was gonna miss it,won it for like 90 bucks.

frankhardy · July 16, 2012 8:31AM

<< perfect thread for self identification of serious compulsive disorders. >>

I disagree. There was nothing cumpulsive about my snipe. I thought it through, and did it on purpose. I was perfectly willing to pay what I sniped if need be. Yes, I did change my snipe, but I thought it through.

bishop · July 16, 2012 8:56AM

Shane---he may be wrong about you but he is right as rain on me

frankhardy · July 16, 2012 9:35AM

<< Shane---he may be wrong about you but he is right as rain on me

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Yes, but you sure do have an awesome collection to show for it!

dontippet · July 16, 2012 1:49PM

My large snipes are very thought out and usually are done over a period of several days or more.

OneBigDummy · July 16, 2012 2:40PM

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<< $0, I'm old school apparently. I bid my max, including cost of s/h, whenever I find a card I want...that's it. >>

I'm pretty much the same way. I wait until less than 10 seconds before the auction is about to end and bid my max, and if I don't get it then it wasn't meant to be mine. >>

Why not just snipe. It does the exact same thing, except you don't have to time your bids. >>

I'm just not that fancy, I guess.

dontippet · July 16, 2012 2:42PM

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<< $0, I'm old school apparently. I bid my max, including cost of s/h, whenever I find a card I want...that's it. >>

I'm pretty much the same way. I wait until less than 10 seconds before the auction is about to end and bid my max, and if I don't get it then it wasn't meant to be mine. >>

Why not just snipe. It does the exact same thing, except you don't have to time your bids. >>

I'm just not that fancy, I guess.

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LOL

punchymuffin · July 17, 2012 10:26AM

I's all good when you come up with a good deal but what about those of us who get duped into paying 3 figures for a common in a 9 only to see 4SC pull a 10 of the same card a month later for the same price!! At least I got the second 10 of the same card they had a week later for 1/2 the price of the other one. DOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

What's the most you have &quot;over-sniped&quot; or &quot;over-bid&quot; a card you needed or wanted

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What's the most you have "over-sniped" or "over-bid" a card you needed or wanted