Anyone else bored with sniping?
Reynaldo
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I'm thinking about going back to the days of bidding my absolute max like five minutes into a seven-day auction--just to make things a little more spectacular.
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im bored w/ snipers. i never have, prolly never will, though i do wish i had sometimes.
I have seen some Japanese dudes do this. They exert their bidding dominance with an iron fist and they actually discourage competition. I have had French and UK bidders later lament something to the effect of ... "I wanted to win more but with _____ in the auction it was pointless to keep bidding"
Of course you'll need the sheer will and huge bankroll of those mysterious Japanese cats (with the private user info) to pull this off.
I have to auto-snipe because if I don't I'll forget to bid. I mean I could be watching an auction with 2 mins to go, switch windows, bam, I forgot to bid.
i like waiting til the last 10 or 15 min and then bidding my absolute max. I tend to always end up winnig the item, but paying to the last dollar of my max bid, when i use the jap-cat methood. It sometime is NAGL. If youre planning on bidding alot then it is easy to forget about auctions. I think sniping is a great tool for potheads and work-a-holics who are busy and forgetful. I can see how it takes part of the fun out of the whole process. I have never used it because i don't bid on enough things to need it but
That's what I do. I stopped using ebay for 18 months and just started again. If I see a record, I put down my maximum bid no matter how early it is and wait for the email to see if I've won or not. I don't watch the item and if I lose then that's fine because it was more than I would have wanted to pay. When I get sniped (about 30% of the time) it's usually by the same two or three people. But I make them pay.
sayin. same couple of cats ALWAYS. even once at least the same guy on the same record. dood, share the love. c'mon. sheesh
Yeah, that's how I do it as well. For a while, I was winning on a pretty regular basis, but I haven't actually won an auction in probably a couple years now. Then again, I also tend to bid low.
i've done that so many times. i started using esnipe a couple months ago and it's been great.
I use this one.
http://www.auctionstealer.com/home.cfm
This is almost the same.. but better than just bidding your max. With this you can bid your max and then just forget about it. You'll either win or you won't, but by not instigating a bidding war early you might come out with stuff cheaper this way.
Or not, in the end it's going to come out the same 90% of the time whether you bid your max or snipe - but maybe %10 of the time it will pay off.
I use it, like I said, mainly because I'm real forgetful.
Also if your computer or internet went down when the auction was ending you would still get your bid in (same as if you went Max Bid at the start though).
...but do you know about ePeek?
Truly
That's the one that lets you see what the reserve is, right?
Then you got eVoyeur and a couple of other joints to see what other peoples' max bids are.
I really don't even see how these little dudes stay in the game.
faux' comments somehow went perfectly with his avatar... i can just hear that Wire guys voice.. heh heh
Been there/done that!
No more!!
I just watch shitty bids from now on & figure out how much some records are selling for!!
i know i've seen items that had people bidding on them that caused me to bid higher than i'd want to bid, just to win the item.