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- Thread starter Quadraman
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My stupidity was your gain. I was sitting on 'Continue' rather than one stage later on 'Confirm', and the remaining 10sec. didn't allow time to recover from that @#$%&! impasse. Good luck to you, especially at that price.
Oh well ... At least I have some consolation in having found a second Radius Rocket 33MHz for my Quadra 950.
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Wouldn't it make sense to work something out whereby fellow 68kers aren't bidding against each other and driving the price up? 
I never put my bids in until the last 5-10 seconds, so unless there is someone sniping at the same time I am that puts in an outrageous bid, the prices stay reasonable. It's when you put your bids in early that others have time to respond and the price gets driven up. Also, you can sometimes pick stuff up for the minimum bid if it otherwise wouldn't have sold. If you put in the minimum bid early, the seller will sometimes outbid you using an alternate ID just to keep the item from selling too cheap. If you snipe it inside the last 3-4 seconds, they don't have time to respond to your bid, then if the seller refuses to sell at that price you file a complaint with ebay and as the winning bidder you have the right to leave negative feedback, the mere threat of which sometimes convinces the seller to part with the item rather than get a blot on their record.
Because the Rockets are not mere accelerators, and because I can. The Everest principle at work. Rockets are additional co-processors that talk to and share with the host and each other over NuBus, even if they are not always the most tractable co-processors. I shall have, because discretion has to rein in valour at some point and leave me with a couple of NuBus slots spare, three computers in one to tame and use.
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I am as one with Quadraman. I decide what I am willing to pay, and bid that amount at the last opportunity. If someone else wants the item more than I do, and is willing to back that desire with money, it is entirely reasonable that that person should win it. An auction is not a stroll in the countryside, no matter what the media may represent it to be. It is deadly serious.
'Shill bidding', which Quadraman mentioned, is illegal in almost all auctions. However, it is easily spotted. Far more of a pain, again as Quadraman mentioned, is bidding by novices against each other in piffling increments, eight days from fall of the hammer. This simply gets in the way of serious bidders who know what they intend to pay at the last feasible moment. The novices, who bid as if their money is being extracted through their nostrils, are then still trying to get a 'bargain', and they are easily outbid.
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Yes, when I buy things on eBay I always bid at the last minute too. Though if you both put huge bids on at the last minute then one of you will win the item but will have to pay a lot for it - I just thought that it would make sense to sort something out beforehand as then neither of you would need to pay a huge amount. Anyway, it was only a thought - I just found it quite interesting that there were two 68kers bidding on the same thing presumably not even realising it!
I never like being sniped at the eleventh hour in eBay auctions, however I have won a few like that myself. It always amazes me with some items (possibly rare or valuable or both), as they will maintain a low price until the last two minutes when bidding goes mad. I have seen items climb from about £2 to around £100 in this time and it must leave all bidders and the seller on the edges of their seats.
This has made eBay almost like a real auction. You have an item sitting there that everyone can spend a while looking at and then all the bids come in at once. The only difference is there is a time limit in which to do this unlike in real auctions when the item sells to the person who is prepared to pay the most.
This has made eBay almost like a real auction. You have an item sitting there that everyone can spend a while looking at and then all the bids come in at once. The only difference is there is a time limit in which to do this unlike in real auctions when the item sells to the person who is prepared to pay the most.
No-one 'likes' to be outbid at the last moment, but it has to be accepted as a possibility in any auction, live or on-line. Don't be misled by the bidding mechanism into thinking that eBay auctions are not 'real'. They differ from live auctions in that you cannot look around to see your competitors, and have therefore no clue that another bid is coming. Thence comes the danger of being 'sniped'.
That experienced on-line bidders decide what they will pay, and bid at the last moment, is only to be expected when there is a fixed end-time. That is the distinction between on-line and live auctions. It is also why the winning bid is only the greatest of a bunch of last-second bids. It is very much the auctioneer's call when a live auction ends, and holding off on a bid can be a bidder's undoing if the timing is not right.
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That experienced on-line bidders decide what they will pay, and bid at the last moment, is only to be expected when there is a fixed end-time. That is the distinction between on-line and live auctions. It is also why the winning bid is only the greatest of a bunch of last-second bids. It is very much the auctioneer's call when a live auction ends, and holding off on a bid can be a bidder's undoing if the timing is not right.
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Whenever I am bidding on a rare or high ticket item on ebay I always use esnipe to place my bid in the last 3 seconds of the auction:
http://www.esnipe.com/
It works quite well.
http://www.esnipe.com/
It works quite well.
Hey! Sniping tools take all the fun out of it. You miss that adrenaline rush as you sit refreshing the listing while the last few seconds tick away before you make your bid. You miss the nervous feeling in the pit of your stomach that someone may make a higher snipe and your hands shaking while you try to restrain yourself from making your move too early. Then the high you get afterwards if you win and all the fun of reading the nasty messages you get almost immediately from those who got sniped while the feeling of power is still coursing through you. You miss too much when you use sniping tools.
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