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How out of control is ebay sniping?
seateddime
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Is it unfair to snipe or just the way it is these days?
It used to be on Ebay, now getting snipped on Heritage too!
It used to be on Ebay, now getting snipped on Heritage too!
I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
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Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
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Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
<< <i>Your high bid is your high bid, regardless of when you enter it. If an item sells for more than your high bid then you should have bid more or you didn't want it at that price anyway. >>
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<< <i>I have a surefire way of defeating any and all snipers. I place my high bid initially and forget about it. If I get it under the price I want, great - if I don't, I ould have paid too much anyways. >>
that is exactly what I do.
Please have smoe with your whine!!
<< <i>Not sniping is throwing money away. (It gives the others plenty of time to rethink their bid, and up yours). >>
Hey, up yours too buddy!
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I shelled out $29 for this
link maybe I cancel it, is there free software around???? Send a link
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
someone just wanted it more than you.
Since i discovered "sniper" software i place all my bids that way, 6-7 days in advance.
I always place my max bid with sniper software.
The last 15 coins i bid on i was outbid either prior to "sniper time" or by another sniper
that wanted it more than i.
I don't feel cheated or have any remorse that i didn't bid "enough"
I had bid my max.
With sniper i don't have to sit in front of the computer screen cycling the frefresh button and i can also
be bidding on multiple coins that close at the same time.
Long live the sniper
Sniper says " If you run..you will only die tired"
I always place my max bid with sniper software."
What do you use?
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
That hurts more than any coin I every lost
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
why pay a fee per auction if onbidder.net lets you have unlimited snipes?
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
<< <i>Now I feel like a cheat since I got a snipe program and I started to actually win coins. >>
You're kidding, right?
Russ, NCNE
simply put your high bid in and check if you won later.
sometimes I will watch a coin I do not really want due to its
price. when it is closing people are still slowly bidding with
spirited interest. obviously the price is way low for the coin.
so in the last 10 seconds you see a flurry of "snipes", heh.
until the big cheese comes along and blows away all the snipers
with a true bid of what the coin approx sells for normally.
so, just bid what you think it is worth, one time. when it happens
is irrelevant.
Same as if you are at a real auction and there area others there bumping up the bid.
You don't know if they are shill bidders or not.
On eBay, I place my high bid within the last few seconds of the auction.
I am a sniper and wouldn't have it any other way (unless I BIN it that is)!!
If I only had a dollar for every VAM I have...err...nevermind...I do!!
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<< <i>I have a surefire way of defeating any and all snipers. I place my high bid initially and forget about it. If I get it under the price I want, great - if I don't, I ould have paid too much anyways. >>
that is exactly what I do. >>
Exactly, decide what the coin is worth to you and bid it. If you lose you were saved from overpaying. If you win you bought the coin for what you were willing to pay.
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<< <i>I have a surefire way of defeating any and all snipers. I place my high bid initially and forget about it. If I get it under the price I want, great - if I don't, I ould have paid too much anyways. >>
that is exactly what I do. >>
On average you guys end up paying too much. If instead you set up a snipe at your max bid, then your bid will not be run up by "inchworms".
you are assuming the person placing the reasonable bid
loses their head and bids 10 times poopsheet.
you have to get in the frame of mind that your one bid is
reasonable, not moon money. just an honest bid that most
sellers will probably see as "reasonable".
<< <i>so you all think snipers are good? the program I got is on onbidder.net is there anything better? >>
Snipers are neither good nor bad, they are bidders just like anyone else.
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<< <i><< I have a surefire way of defeating any and all snipers. I place my high bid initially and forget about it. If I get it under the price I want, great - if I don't, I ould have paid too much anyways. >>
that is exactly what I do. >>
On average you guys end up paying too much. >>
If they're placing their max at what they're willing to pay they can't be paying too much. Your premise is correct, though, but should be restated as "paying more than you have to."
Russ, NCNE
It must work because since I got that program I won 9 lots 3 at close to my max bid all on the snipe and the wons I lost I was fine to lose at the price they sold for.
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
<< <i>I love ebay snipers >>
Ditto!
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As such, it rarely pays to watch eBay any more.
As a seller, it's great. As a buyer, nurturing a business relationship with some dealers, especially those specializing in your own interest, seems better AND cheaper than playing the eBay sweepstakes -- at least when you're looking at coins that are very nice and with clear images. eBay is still fine for gamblers (who don't see a really good picture but have a "hunch"), for finding miscategorized items that few people see and for cherrypicking in some coin series, but by and large, as often as not you can do just as well off a fixed price list with a reputable dealer for the good stuff.
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<< <i>How out of control is ebay sniping? >>
It is alive and well, thank you very much!
Tim
Software is unsporting though!
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<< <i> I bid a coin up from $20 to $200 with a max bid of $405 on a coin that some wins on a snipe of $406 that just sucks >>
Not trying to be a wiseacre here, but I don't understand what your complaint is. You got outbid, so you lost. You have no complaint. What am I missing?
Mike