Just a rant about ebay (3 Viewers)

[jazzeum]

I'm sorry but I'm not seeing the cutthroats, thugs and/or rogues to whom you refer. People like Michael and me are trying to spend as little as money as possible when trying to purchase an item. For that I make no apologies.

 

[jpipes]

An interesting counter-point is that if a person snipes at the last second and their bid isn't enough to beat the standing high bidder you've given yourself no room to try and enter another bid.

 

[BLReed]

An interesting counter-point is that if a person snipes at the last second and their bid isn't enough to beat the standing high bidder you've given yourself no room to try and enter another bid.

Bid like you have a pair and that won't happen. Sometimes you have to learn how to
play with the big boys.

 

[Running-Buddy]

Bid like you have a pair and that won't happen. Sometimes you have to learn how to
play with the big boys.

When EBay first came out there was no such thing as sniping. I would win more items for less money before sniping. Since sniping was invented I win less auctions and seem to pay more for what I do win because I need to bid higher to anticipate othe Snipers. So it is easy to say that sniping did not save me money it only reduced the amount of auctions I won.

Howard Hulsebosch
Buck Private(DO YOU HEAR ME)

 

[theBaron]

When EBay first came out there was no such thing as sniping. I would win more items for less money before sniping. Since sniping was invented I win less auctions and seem to pay more for what I do win because I need to bid higher to anticipate othe Snipers. So it is easy to say that sniping did not save me money it only reduced the amount of auctions I won.

Howard Hulsebosch
Buck Private(DO YOU HEAR ME)

Well, there was sniping, just not automated. I did it all the time, and still do. But you had to sit up and watch an auction that ended at 2AM, if you wanted to be there at the end. I know was involved in many last-minute bid wars, with less than 30 seconds to go. I would wait until there were only 20 seconds left, type in a bid, and then save it at 10 seconds. The features that automate sniping make that a little more difficult now.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Running-Buddy]

Well, there was sniping, just not automated. I did it all the time, and still do. But you had to sit up and watch an auction that ended at 2AM, if you wanted to be there at the end. I know was involved in many last-minute bid wars, with less than 30 seconds to go. I would wait until there were only 20 seconds left, type in a bid, and then save it at 10 seconds. The features that automate sniping make that a little more difficult now.

Prost!
Brad

Brad,
I do not consider that Sniping. What you were and are doing is live bidding.I have done that also but there are fewer people ready to babysit an auction to bid LIVE than use an automated service and not be present. Hence more auctions won at lower prices.

Howard Hulsebosch
Buck Private(DO YOU HEAR ME)

 

[theBaron]

Brad,
I do not consider that Sniping. What you were and are doing is live bidding.I have done that also but there are fewer people ready to babysit an auction to bid LIVE than use an automated service and not be present. Hence more auctions won at lower prices.

Howard Hulsebosch
Buck Private(DO YOU HEAR ME)

It's still referred to as sniping. It was called that, before the apps and functions were developed to do it automatically.

Prost!
Brad

 

[zulucollector]

I'm sorry but I'm not seeing the cutthroats, thugs and/or rogues to whom you refer. People like Michael and me are trying to spend as little as money as possible when trying to purchase an item. For that I make no apologies.

I am not sure it really been has been proven that sniping saves money especially if there is one or more snipers involved.

I guess for this one we will not see eye to eye but as gentlemen we of course can respect each other's positions.

 

[theBaron]

Do you guys object if someone places a extremely high bid on the first day of an auction, and then walks away, and you place some bids, bidding the auction up until you decide that the first bidder's bid is higher than what you're willing to pay? You have lost just the same as if a bidder sniped, whether live or through a function or app, at the end of the auction. It seems to me that it's really more about going head to head and getting beat.

Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

I am not sure it really been has been proven that sniping saves money especially if there is one or more snipers involved...

It saves me money, if I can get in at the last second, with a bid that beats the next highest bidder but is still less than the maximum I was willing to pay. Again, sniping is merely one delivery vehicle for a bid, and it's effective in an auction with competitive bidding.

Are you guys opposed to the automatic bid increases, too? That can be a form of sniping, too, in a case in which there are two or more bidders, and the next-to-last bidder bids just under your maximum bid in the last seconds, and the automatic bid kicks in and outbids him. He's been tagged by a sniper, just as surely as if you sat there and entered your bid manually.

Prost!
Brad

 

[jazzeum]

Of course it saves money.