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MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
Has anyone sniped an auction the same time someone else has and paid way stupid money for a coin?


Example, Russ and me both want a 1964 proof set with an AH Kennedy, I snipe at 3 seconds with $50 as my high bid, and Russ Snipes at 2 seconds with $75 as his high bid. But then Don outsnipes us both with $80 at 1 second and Don get the proof set for $76! Come on fess up!!
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Russ and me both want a 1964 proof set with an AH Kennedy, I snipe at 3 seconds with $50 as my high bid >>



    Unless we're talking butt-kicking cameo coin, you're going to win every time bidding that kind of money.

    Russ, NCNE
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    It was just an example, and yes it was a butt kicking coin!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 25,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pepperdoodles and I both sniped a coin at $222.22. I was within five or ten seconds, he was within 20 or so. Because he bid first he won the coin! Sniping is good and works just as long as your 'competitor' doesn't snipe first.
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    No. I never place a proxy bid more than I'm willing to pay.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>and you it was a butt kicking coin! >>



    Well, even than the scenario doesn't work. If it were that good, I'd have gotten ahold of the seller and got him to close the auction early and sell it to me in order to eliminate you and all other competitors from the equation.

    Bwuahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

    BTW, this actually did happen on a Frankie I was sniping. Several forum members were going after it. One of them and I pulled the trigger at exactly the same time. It said that I'd won, but when I went back to look, he'd beaten me by a buck.

    Russ, NCNE
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    I know sniping programs make this a lot easier, but sometimes on say a $50 item, you lay down a snipe and put $100 in the box just to be sure. Then someone else lays down a snipe for $95 and you get the coin but for $97!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Russ and I both sniped an AH at the same time... he was a second or two before me, but since I was below him, I raised his price about 4 fold image

    Russ, how was that AH, by the way?

    Jeremy
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Russ, how was that AH, by the way? >>



    It was a monster high grade cameo beauty.

    Russ, NCNE

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