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Don't see how you can stop the guy who logs on within the last few minutes & sees the auction for the first time....&, really, you could care less who buys it...if somebody really wanted it, their high bid would be higher!
 
Well, it looks as though a snipe got the item. No bids until the last 9 seconds, and took it from $41 to $175.
Happy now? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Jeff
 
I look at it this way. If I'm walking down the street and come upon an auction of, lets say, household goods, I see something being sold and it's the final bid and I offer up another and win the bid. Am I a bad guy for doing this? No! It's an auction and that's the way auctions work. If the auctioneer said to me that I didn't win because I came in at the last minuet before the gavel fell, him and I would have a heart to heart talk. All's fair in love and war. And also auctions! You can't change the rules. JMHO. PJ
 
Bugeye58, sure. But assuming money was the only object,I would be even happier had he bid $175,00 yesterday, and given the other bidders a chance to bid higher. Not everyone is an ebay maven. I am not. My point is that ebay is not a fair auction as compared to a live in-person auction. Paul161, if you walk up to an auction you would not have exclusive bidding rights, the other bidders are still there also to counter offer. The bidding stops when no more bids are offered, simple as that.
 
Sniping is the only way to go on ebay for me. I also like to snipe at a walk up auction if the high bid is lower than my anticipated high price. Its an artform to be able to come out on top in any kind of Auction.
But to each is own. I dont like to just give money away if I dont have to.

Newkie aka. Not as cheap as that may have sounded!

P.S. Sounds like maybe this is your last ebay auction?
 
eBay is not a live auction, it's a proxy auction. If any of the other bidders were willing to pay more than $175, they should have had their max bid in. The only bidders the winner cut out was other snipers.
 
....OK, I surrender,can't fight city hall and all that.

But...if I may quote that famous Gone with the Wind starlet

"it ain't fittin,...it just ain't fittin"...

..a question,....how do you guys handle an ALL YOU CAN EAT..buffet...
 
BOXoROCKS said:
Bugeye58, sure. But assuming money was the only object,I would be even happier had he bid $175,00 yesterday, and given the other bidders a chance to bid higher. Not everyone is an ebay maven. I am not. My point is that ebay is not a fair auction as compared to a live in-person auction. Paul161, if you walk up to an auction you would not have exclusive bidding rights, the other bidders are still there also to counter offer. The bidding stops when no more bids are offered, simple as that.
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At an auction, the bidding stops when the gavel comes down. I've been to many construction equipment auctions, won some and lost some. When the gavel falls, it's all over. Plain and simple. If you procrastinate and your bid comes in after the gavel falls, that's tough, you loose.
 
yes Paul161, I know, but the bidding doesn't stop at a certain time, it stops after ...once, twice.... with everybody present and able to bid.... Whatever....I will accept ebays format.
 
This has been a interesting thread, I think the whole point being made here, is any enviroment there is a certian ways things are done, either get with the program or get left in the dust (alot like racing :smile:) fair is a fantasy often discussed by people who come up short, life isn't fair, and would be that fun if it was /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif I think Ebay's latest TV commercial campaign says it all, "Shop Victoriosly", Ebay is a competition, in any competition, there is one winner and a bunch of losers, such is life, they had a plan for equality for all, I believe they called it communism, and it didn't work /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif Long live capitalism!!!!!!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
OK Comrade, I said I except Ebays rules. But please explain to me,why MY rules,if POSTED CLEARLY in my auction aren't just as fair. Why also can sellers post that low auction numbered bidders can NOT bid with out prior approval. Are they also not making their own rules? Are they not accusing low # bidders as being untrustworthy,or some other nefarious deed?

I have yet to have a legit argument laid out saying I am being unfair or dishonest in my auction,if I stated all my terms up front. Ebays rules to the contrary.

PS, I have NEVER been sniped on an auction. I RARELY(2/3 times maybe) buy on ebay.
 
So is it sold for $41 or $175? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif

I am confused /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif

Pat
 
Hap Waldrop said:
not worth the trouble.
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I agree!
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Uh, I have been selling on ebay for quite a while, and maybe I'm missing the point, but I don't care when they bid, just so long as they pay promptly.

So, at what point in the auction would you consider the bid to be a snipe? 30sec, 10, 5? I guess I will have to watch which auctions my snipe program bids on for fear of having my bid rejected. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
...OK, give it a rest fellas,I guess I just see it different. Not one person agreed with me,so I must be way off base on this issue.....S#*t happens.
 
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