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I hate snipers

I just lost a very nice 1936D Rhode Island with less than a minute left! Damn it! Oh well. Don't be a player hater, hate the game.

heath
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Jeremy
I snipe, therefore I am.
You would not have been sniped if you would have put your max bid up to the max you wanted to bid. Sniping has nothing to do with bid proxy. If the snipers bid is less then your max you will still win.
I have been out sniped many times, but I have also sniped a few myself.
Lori
Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns
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Cheers,
Bob
roadrunner
The other bidder did not go up right away so i kept watcching during that 10 or 15 minute period where anyone who already bid can bid again and sure enough he raised to 1950, iraised back to 2,000 and won the coin for 2,300. That coin was much better than the image and i think i got a pretty good price.
I'm with you man! Snipers suck! Especially the ones that snipe with only one second to go! It's just not fair!
Russ, NCNE
09/07/2006
hjohn74 - I have mixed feelings - depending if buying or selling
I also feel it will only be a matter of time for eBay to have autoextend of some sort, where any bid would extend the auction by 5 or 10 minutes - they have copied many features that yahoo has for free and charge 10 to 25 cents for it.
<< <i>is it a DCAM accented hair that NTC undergraded? >>
Hehe, good one.
Russ, NCNE
I would have surely posted a response at 3:40:01!
<<I snipe therefore I am>>
Me, too. It's the evolution of bidding -- like fish growing lungs and walking on land!
than I was willing to pay......If I just put in a MAX proxy and go away, it's outbid over 4-5 days by "tickle bidders"....
they are the DOPES......
09/07/2006
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
Late sniper always gets the coin, and the early bird goes hungry.
A 5 second snipe with a winning bid of .23 higher than the next guy!
Sweeeeet!
Bullseye
If you would bid the max that your willing to pay then in some cases you might win a few auctions. But people like you think well I'm going to bid $1 dollar on a $20 item and then a sniper comes along and blows you out, you whine about its not fair. Whats not fair is you thinking just because you only wanted to bid a dollar and then you get out bid you should have another chance to place a higher bid. Well that just not the way the ball bounces. Wake up and smell the coffee...
<< <i>What's better than a 5 second snipe???
A 5 second snipe with a winning bid of .23 higher than the next guy!
Sweeeeet! >>
Long live the fractional overbid!
<< <i>ticklebidders had won it a dollar more than my max bid >>
Second bidder sets the price when proxy bidding is involved - a max bid of $1,000 buys it for $2.75 if second bidder only went $2.50.