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| More Cowbell:
I have loved eBay since I discovered it in 1998. Lately, however, it has gone downhill for all of the reasons stated above. Just yesterday i had another issue pop up. I have $1.42 of charges on my account due to something I sold a while back. I didn't realize that I had never paid it. Suddenly yesterday I get an alert saying that my account was blocked due to this outstanding $1.42. Paid it right away using Paypal and thought nothing of it. I go to bid on something last night (snipe :o) and when I go to bid it says I'm still blocked because the money hasn't cleared through Paypal. Could take up to 7 days. I'm ticked that I missed the auction, but the item didn't sell which means that eBay lost the fees. Glad to see that keeping the riffraff out of eBay over $1.42 cost them much more than that in fees. |
| RayB:
The problem with bidding your maximum early is that there is a cheat where the seller or other bidder can figure out what your max bid is. They use a second account to bid up until they surpass your max bid. Then, that account RETRACTS the last bid. A third account then bids $1 less than your max. And now, you're winning, and the seller is getting the max you were willing to part with. |
| genesim:
--- Quote ---I think my point was if I have $600 to spend and I bid my limit of $300 on each but one items ends and I don't get it, I have more money to play with and I can up my bid on the other $300 item to $400 or more. --- End quote --- I don't care if it is 2 dollars...400 dollars, it is damn silly to show your cards until the time is right. You can rationalize it all you want. If I had 600 dollars to spend, I would try to snipe the first auction...if that doesn't work, then you snipe the second auction. In most cases you will get the item for FAR less then what you would have if you get in a bidding war. --- Quote ---If you are pressed for time, open up notepad and work on a reply, then copy paste when you have the time. If anything it'll help your writing skills as for the reading and comprehension, you're on your own there. --- End quote --- Besides the personal attack, it doesn't make sense to spend that much time editing. You get the idea of what I wrote, and that is all that matters. No time doesn't allow for a rewrite because often I am bored anyway surfing on a computer that isn't my own. ;D The problems you are having with comprehension have nothing to do with presentation. It is strictly out of being lazy, or plain ol mule headed stuborness. You can't stand the concept that you could be wrong, so you rationalize to make up for it. You were most likely wrong in the first case(as you admit). And I pointed out a possibility. Your way of bidding only gets you paying more. Its your choice. I can only lead you to water. Try to take the advice of others for further education. Hell at least look at the last person that bid. The sheer skill of coming along and topping both of you while you are going a penny here and a penny there for NO REASON, is something to be in awe of. I admit to doing it once or twice till I figured out...Hey this is kind of stupid??!! What exactly is this getting me??!! ::) |
| torez:
You can save a bundle by switching to er ... sniping. Early bidding can be taken advantage of by others in so many ways, it's scary. Even a bad seller can nibble on your max bid to up his selling price. If you are afraid that your snipe bid will not work, you can always try it from more than one computer or using sniping software and manual bidding at the last seconds. You can even increase snipe time by 2-3 seconds, if you have to. Sniping software programs have time synchronization with Ebay, so there is no problem with time running out on you. |
| Malenko:
yeah I guesssniping software is the only way to win something you want. As for being stubborn and all that other crap, I usually bid on something close to it ending, I know there are ways to get the max money out of me but what I bid is what I'm willing to pay, I don't always happen to have the time to watch auctions and usually they end while I'm at work, or more often then that, asleep. There was no personal attack on you genesim, but for you to go around saying I'm stubborn is like the pot calling the kettle black. Do I really need to link to a thread showing you how stubborn you are despite everyone telling you the opposite of what you wanted to hear? I have no problem admitting I was wrong (as you can see in my previous post) but people using the sniping software and shill bidding and sheild bidding....all that stuff combined is really making eBay suck and I'd rather not be a part of it. I admitted I jumped the gun calling shenanigans , there is nothing else I can do but admit to it and move on. I guess you missed that part, so umm I'll repeat.. I dont wanna snipe because I dont want to be part of the problem. if that means I dont win anything on ebay so be it. Also please stop your insulting observations of me, you may consider calling me lazy, mule headedly stubborn, a fool, and a turkey (in this thread ALONE) as passingly funny but I find it very disrespectful. I ebay exactly like DaveMMR. I am not mad I got outbid by the guy who won, he surpassed my maximum amount I was willing to pay on both items, a fact I think you seem to have forgotten. Even if I used sniping software like he did, his max was more so he would have won anyway, for the exact same amount he won them for. Also, please dont confuse your inability to convey a thought as my inability to comprehend it, after reading all your posts I finally figured out what you should have said in the first place "bet the most you want to pay as late as possible" which ironically enough, is what I do. Unfortunately, as I stated before, my "late enough" isn't "late enough" to win most of the time. |
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