I wish people on eBay would learn how to bid

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  • mercurydimeguy
    mercurydimeguy Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: AMRC

    I too am confused. What's the problem? Isn't this all good? Or are we looking at it from a buyers point of view that was hoping to get it cheap?




    OP complaining that someone wanted to bid/pay more for the coin than the OP wanted to pay.
  • coindeuce
    coindeuce Posts: 13,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    As hard as anyone might find this to comprehend, when you bid at eBay, you're not bidding against others. You're bidding against the clock. At a live floor auction sale, you're bidding not only against other bidders - but against the auctioneer as well.

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • mustangmanbob
    mustangmanbob Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Another auction site I use has a 2 minute reset. That is, say the listing ends at 10:00:00



    The high bid is $27



    If a bid of $28 comes in after 09:58:00, the end time is automatically bumped to 10:02:00



    So the last second snipe bid just resets the clock.



    I have watched some real bidding wars erupt, but at the same time, watched some items just slip under the radar, especially if several bidding wars are going on at the same time.



  • YQQ
    YQQ Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    am not sure, but do not think so:

    does the ebay clock re-set?
    Today is the first day of the rest of my life
  • derryb
    derryb Posts: 38,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: YQQ
    am not sure, but do not think so:
    does the ebay clock re-set?

    no

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

  • NickDanger
    NickDanger Posts: 73 ✭
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    Originally posted by: davewesen
    I also hate it when I set a snipe bid for a good deal and some rubes come along and bid it up to full retail. What's up with that?


    Gosh, I hate to to pay the going rate for the coins I collect.
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  • Mission16
    Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭
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    Funny. I always thought highest bidder should win
  • Cougar1978
    Cougar1978 Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    wish they would bid like that in all my auctions. I just love it when they get in a bid war for something of mine.

    It appears they were more willing to pay the money than you
    Investor
  • Desert Moon
    Desert Moon Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Idiots cost me money"



    Wow, yikes, I can't believe someone would publicly denigrate bidders in an auction just because they beat one out on an item one wanted and they valued it higher than one apparently did. I thought that kind of name calling was not allowed here in these boards?



    Best, SH
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  • kiyote
    kiyote Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's one of those scenarios where the highest bidder wins.
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • CalGold
    CalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭
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    They have an acrylic whale and you have $727 in your pocket. image Seems to me that you are the winner.

    CG
  • CircOnly
    CircOnly Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭✭
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  • Cameonut
    Cameonut Posts: 7,436 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Are you certain that there weren't other bidders that placed snipe bids in excess of your $525? (My guess is - yes)



    When I want a coin and there is active bidding, I simply set my snipe bid to the max I am willing to pay. Then you win some and you lose some.

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

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  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My only wish is that we would communicate and keep those lines open , instead of using verbiage that insults or demeans anyone. We can all "feel" one way or another, but nobody has to "fight" over the right to exchange fairly, anything.
  • TopographicOceans
    TopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: CalGold
    They have an acrylic whale and you have $727 in your pocket. image Seems to me that you are the winner.

    CG
    The smartest man in the room has arrivedimage

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