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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience  Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:42 pm |
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It is possible to get a bargain, but you just cant rely on it in the way that you could a year ago. Now, if I see something that I really like, I have to expect to pay a lot for it to make sure that I get it. It is almost a victim of its own success.
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:18 am |
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Gunbroker.com is an eBay-type site for firearms sales within the US. Sorry, no Epic stuff there! But I think the 15-minute policy just makes sense, and eBay should consider it, if nothing else than to mitigate customer frustration with sniping.
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Markconz
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:31 am |
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The local New Zealand site has a 2 minute auto-extend with bids. Can't understand why e-bay doesn't do something similar.
Still why not just bid your max with an auto-bid, feel happy if get it and happy if you don't (as it went for more than you were prepared to pay anyway!).
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Chroma
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:10 pm |
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All the information and myths about "sniping" on eBay that you'd ever care to read. I highly recommend it for anyone getting into eBay auctions:
http://members.cox.net/cruentidei/ebay/snipe.html
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primarch
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:12 pm |
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Hi!
Thanks Chroma, good informative link.
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AdamG
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:33 pm |
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It's amazing what some things will go for. It only needs 2 people to really want something and the price goes sky high. On the other hand, you sometimes get diddly-squat for the same item if it's on a few weeks before or after! I've seen a first edition box of Bloodbowl (Old folded card players) fetch ?16, I sold mine for ?1 (Bummer!)
The only way to get something is to bid as much as you're prepared to pay for it. If it's worth ?20 to get that ellusive model you want and someone else thinks it's worth ?25, then there's nowt you can do about it, Auction Sniper or no Auction Sniper.
Sometimes I only see an auction with something I want in, when I log on, so it's not always an automated sniping tool in use.
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duz.holger
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:04 am |
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hi i dont know if there is somthing fishi but i bit on turfskulls sm sprues and it bit up all the time and at last it fell but i bit back and i won at a stagering price of 52 pound sterling but i need the sprues when i lost the bid and won it back there was no problem kebing it but as long as i raised he raised
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CyberShadow
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:02 am |
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Ouch!
It looks like a fun auction!  Still, this kind of bidding behaviour is fairly common. People bid in very small increments for some reason. Not fishy, I think, but frustrating.
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Tas
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:23 pm |
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I got some spare SM sprues if you want them that badly! 
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:08 pm |
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I did something like this, not long after I was new to eBay, and was starting to collect Epic stuff of there. I was watching an almost mint Epic 40,000 boxset, mostly on sprues/unpunched. I had decided to do a Marine & an Ork army so I decided I'd go for it.
Anyway, I waited 10 mins before the end til bidding, think it was at ?15 or something like that, I bid ?20-25 (can't remember exactly). Then i got outbid, so I put on another bid. And I got out bid again.
Now, this is before I really knew how to get the best out of bidding on eBay, and the relative value of various Epic stuff, so I got in to quite a bidding war over this set during the last ?10 minutes of the auction.
At ?70+ I finally decided to pull out. Since then I've managed to get two virtually new Epic 40k boxsets off ebay for about ?30 each - pleasingly one even came with a bag with loads of SM era Guard, Eldar & Chaos models which I've since been able to trade or sell on.
I think with Epic on eBay, it's a case of keep on trying till you get the thing you want at the price you're willing to pay. I know how frustrating it is at times, but perseverance can pay off.
Like when I eventually got my mint-on sprue Imperator. Everyone I'd been watching for months had been going for anything in the region of ?40+. I got mine for ?25 (I'm sure those who've been collecting since the SM/TL era are laughing at me!), which I thought was pretty good, especially as I've not seen any in the same condition go for less than ?30-ish since 
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primarch
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:53 pm |
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Hi!
I must say that at the end of the day bidding your highest is the easiest method. Once I bid I dont even look at the auction anymore and wait for the "you won or you lost" e-mail.
Primarch
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duz.holger
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:34 am |
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tas your my savier please sell to me i will give eny thing for some assult marines and scouts the rest is not of interest
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:32 pm |
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| Quote (primarch @ 11 Mar. 2006 (17:53)) | | I must say that at the end of the day bidding your highest is the easiest method. Once I bid I dont even look at the auction anymore and wait for the "you won or you lost" e-mail. |
and here is some evidence.
I bid my highest on this item off eBay (something for my son.
I put in a bid of ?8.01 and left it to its own devices.
Someone then tried to snipe at ?7.25 ten seconds before the end of the auction and they lost out as I had bid my highest before the end of the auction.
Check out the bidding history to see the times.
And I won the auction._________________ Jimbo
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Tas
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Post subject: Another unsatisfying Ebay experience Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:37 am |
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Well I have had more success of late - buying old VSF novels for $3-4 "buy it now" style. At least it gets me my books, which can be hard to find
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