I hate snipers

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hjohn74
hjohn74 Posts: 101
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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. image
heath

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  • airplanenut
    airplanenut Posts: 22,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Less than a minute is nothing... I prefer snipes of 1-4 seconds.

    Jeremy
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • flaminio
    flaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
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    Next time bid more.

    I snipe, therefore I am.
  • Lori
    Lori Posts: 860
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    As I have been told...

    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
  • Dog97
    Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
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    Lost it hell, you never had it. If you would have bid higher you might have it.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • RKKay
    RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
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    I agree with Dog. Snipers are a part of the game, and you need to take that into account when bidding, if you want the item badly enough..
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • tgilliams
    tgilliams Posts: 1,969
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    ttt
    PCGS sets under The Thomas Collections. Modern Commemoratives @ NGC under "One Coin at a Time". USMC Active 1966 thru 1970" The real War.
  • Outhaul
    Outhaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Ditto Dog...While I enjoy a good snipe every now and then, I usually just bid my max. If I win, ok, if not, oh well. Remember, there's no such thing as a one-of-a-kind on eBay.

    Cheers,

    Bob
  • roadrunner
    roadrunner Posts: 28,374 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Curiously, I bid on many $20 gold coins on ebay during the run up last month. And in almost every case, I got bid out by $5-10 on each and every lot. I bid with max bids as strong as I could and was the underbidder in most cases. In the few cases I bid stupid, I won a few of them. In one case I bid so stupid that another bidder couldn't take it .......he bid even stupider (sp?) and won the lot on a generic gold coin at 50% over CDN bid.

    roadrunner
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • barberlover
    barberlover Posts: 2,228 ✭✭
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    I only tried it once during a heritage bullet sale a little over a year ago, i saw an 1861 seated quarter in 65 and i thought the leading bid at 1850 was to low so 1 minute before close i put in a bid of 1900.

    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.
    The President claims he didn't lie about taxes for those earning less then $250,000 a year with public mandated health insurance yet his own justice department has said they will use the right of the government to tax when the states appeals go to court.
  • Russ
    Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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    hjohn74,

    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
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • cosmicdebris
    cosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
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    Long live the one second snipe! image
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • sinin1
    sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
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    nice snipe Russ - is it a DCAM accented hair that NTC undergraded?

    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.
  • Russ
    Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>is it a DCAM accented hair that NTC undergraded? >>



    Hehe, good one.

    Russ, NCNE

    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • DMWJR
    DMWJR Posts: 6,102 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dang Heath, if I had known you were going to post on Sunday March 16, 2003 3:40 PM

    I would have surely posted a response at 3:40:01! image

    <<I snipe therefore I am>>

    Me, too. It's the evolution of bidding -- like fish growing lungs and walking on land!
    Doug
  • MacCrimmon
    MacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
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    I always snipe my MaxBid with 4-6 seconds....if it's not enough, so what....most times I get it for far less
    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......
  • cosmicdebris
    cosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
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    I like that, "Tickle bidders". Nothing worse than Tickle bidders. That's why I snipe too.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • rainbowroosie
    rainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭
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    Don't complain because you wanted to buy the item cheap...Bid higher.
    "You keep your 1804 dollar and 1822 half eagle -- give me rainbow roosies in MS68."
    rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
  • DMWJR
    DMWJR Posts: 6,102 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yep, everytime (like tonight) when I am out and can't be near the computer when an auction ends, I put in my MAX bid and leave. This time, my max bid was one hour before the end. When I got back on -- you guessed it -- ticklebidders had won it a dollar more than my max bid. It's aggravating, so that's why I snipe too.

    Late sniper always gets the coin, and the early bird goes hungry.
    Doug
  • ClausUrch
    ClausUrch Posts: 1,278 ✭
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    What's better than a 5 second snipe???
    A 5 second snipe with a winning bid of .23 higher than the next guy!
    Sweeeeet!

    Bullseye
  • DirtroadRider
    DirtroadRider Posts: 150 ✭
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    hjohn74,
    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...image
    DirtroadRider
  • satootoko
    satootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭
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    << <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!image


    << <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.image
    Roy


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  • clackamas
    clackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
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    I won an auction with 1 second left and beat the guy by 3 cents. Now thats a snipe. Its not the person who bids last its the person who bids the most.
  • smprfi
    smprfi Posts: 874 ✭
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    Hate it when you lose,love it when you win.image
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