This has to be my best snipe to date. one cent at one second!

fcloud · January 28, 2007 12:12PM

I love when I snipe for 1 cent, but for 1 cent at 1 second. This has to be some sort of record.

DUIGUY · January 28, 2007 12:14PM

1+1+1=1

DieClash · January 28, 2007 12:23PM

<< 1+1+1=1

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I assume you use a software program to do that. I got outbid by a sniper for 4-cents.

How can you do that? That is enter a bid amount that is not at the proper bidding increment? Software? And how is it that eBay allows that?

I've never tired bidding on an item below the next bid increment, so I suppose it can't be done manually.

tmot99 · January 28, 2007 12:29PM

Looks like the auction was sitting at something like $24.75. The high bidder going into the close of the auction had a max bid of $30 but the auction was at $24.75. Therefore, the next bid incriment of 50 cents (or whatever) would be less than $30. Therefore a snipe of $30.01 is greater than the 50 cent required bid incriment.

fcloud · January 28, 2007 12:32PM

And I don't use snipe software. Fast internet service is great!

RichieURich · January 28, 2007 12:35PM

Cutting it just a little close, aren't you, Fcloud? Congratulations on your successful snipe, next time try with 3 or 4 seconds left, just to be safe.

DieClash · January 28, 2007 12:36PM

<< Looks like the auction was sitting at something like $24.75. The high bidder going into the close of the auction had a max bid of $30 but the auction was at $24.75. Therefore, the next bid incriment of 50 cents (or whatever) would be less than $30. Therefore a snipe of $30.01 is greater than the 50 cent required bid incriment. >>

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

notwilight · January 28, 2007 12:37PM

<< Cutting it just a little close, aren't you, Fcloud? Congratulations on your successful snipe, next time try with 3 or 4 seconds left, just to be safe.

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I also add a few more cents. If the underbidder had added 3 cents you'd have been outsniped by .02.

MAD4MORGANS · January 28, 2007 12:43PM

I bet you lose a lot of auctions that way!

I used to do that but got tired of trying to be by the computer.

AuctionSniper is the only way to go for me now.

fcloud · January 28, 2007 12:48PM

<< 

<< Cutting it just a little close, aren't you, Fcloud? Congratulations on your successful snipe, next time try with 3 or 4 seconds left, just to be safe.

>>

I also add a few more cents. If the underbidder had added 3 cents you'd have been outsniped by .02. >>

I never snipe for more than I am willing to pay. So if I would have lost so-be-it. Someone would have wanted it more than I.

fcloud · January 28, 2007 12:50PM

<< I bet you lose a lot of auctions that way!

I used to do that but got tired of trying to be by the computer.

AuctionSniper is the only way to go for me now.

>>

Smoetimes when I bit too early I feel like smoeone sees that I am bidding and bids. I have learned to be patient (unless I won't be around when the auction ends, and in that case I will just take my chances--I actually lose more that way)

DONNYJF · January 28, 2007 1:01PM

Thanks to Esnipe.com I won 3 nice coins this evening.
I set them to go 5 seconds before close.
Beat one tonight by 4 seconds.
Only lost one to someone by $2 more than my max. He did me a favor as I was higher than I should have been on that coin. I should write him a thank you note for the $50 plus he saved me.

razzle · January 28, 2007 1:10PM

Bet sml huggy ain't too happy tonight. For him, it was a penny late and second short.

I bid much the same way. I lose a lot of them. There's a bit of a rush to watching those seconds tick off. It's addictive.

raz

lathmach · January 28, 2007 4:13PM

You paid too much.

Ray

STONE · January 28, 2007 9:08PM

What a deal on that coin.

GoldenEyeNumismatics · January 28, 2007 9:18PM

WTG!

ziggy29 · January 28, 2007 10:12PM

Nice. Though this is why I always add a few random cents to my snipes. If I'm thinking my high is $30, I can probably handle $30.58 or even $31.39 or something like that. It's too easy for someone thinking $30 to be taken out with a bid like your $30.01.

fcloud · January 29, 2007 9:58AM

<< Nice. Though this is why I always add a few random cents to my snipes. If I'm thinking my high is $30, I can probably handle $30.58 or even $31.39 or something like that. It's too easy for someone thinking $30 to be taken out with a bid like your $30.01. >>

$30.01 was my limit. A few years ago I sniped an 1916-D Dime for 1 cent.

Ray, yes I know I paid too much, but what ya gonna do?

This has to be my best snipe to date. one cent at one second!

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