Cases of the forgetfulness - Or just missed out.

[indianawars]

What items / item had you been patiently waiting to end, only to be outbid within the final 10 seconds? Or, any BIN auctions that you thought about for too long only for someone else to buy it from under your nose?
Perhaps you forgot about an auction ending, only to realise when it was all over and saw that it sold for a low price?

Missed out of any gems because of it?
I have many times! The one that still annoys me to this day was from several years ago bidding on a VC Jawa. The auction was ending, I was the highest bidder at £170, with a top bid of £210... and with only 5 seconds to go some prat bided £220! :evil: Because of it, I have still never owned a VC Jawa...

 

[Bootyhunter]

A beater 65 back Fett at 45 QUID! took too long reading the description and someone else jumped in

 

[Droopy]

I missed out on a metallic bespin blaster in a job lot a few weeks ago but only because the seller wouldn't reply to my messages and send better pics......the lot went for £130 I think and included a fair amount of decent figd and other bits! :twisted:

 

[edd_jedi]

The one that still annoys me to this day was from several years ago bidding on a VC Jawa. The auction was ending, I was the highest bidder at £170, with a top bid of £210... and with only 5 seconds to go some prat bided £220! :evil: Because of it, I have still never owned a VC Jawa...

Unfortunately this is just how eBay works. It's a flawed system I'll admit, IMO there should be no end time an the auction should simply end when a period of time passes with no new bids, like how a real auction works. But because eBay revolves around sniping, you have to use a sniper. I use this one:

http://www.goofbay.com

Bidding in advance simply drives the price up, if you have any sense set a snipe and forget about it. It also takes any "emotion" out of the auction (eg paying too much because you got caught up in a bidding war.)

Having said that, if you REALLY need something you should bid yourself. The online snipers are not foolproof, I have lost out on a few things because the bid has not been placed for some reason.

 

[tiefighterboy]

There are some cases were bidding early makes sense. I have won a few when the shipping cost plus my Max bid exceeds what the item is actually worth, so in that case no one will bid as it already has one bid and it is already at market value. Only works if the fools who pay above the odds are sleeping though.

 

[Dannywhiteley]

I bid once at my max (plus a few extra pounds) with about 5 seconds to go. If you lose out you don't feel too hard done to. If you win significantly under you bid it feels great. The beauty of this is you don't have time to bid again so you can't get too carried away.

If I really want something I bid like 2, 3 or even 5 times current bid price in the last seconds and usually you get it. If not, someone else wants it more.

 

[lejackal]

Both Frank and I missed out on a Bossk baggie because of my inability to control a 2yo and bid at the same time. Frank graciously stepped to one side to allow me to bid but at the crucial moment Logan played up and I could only hit a generic bid of £40, matching the other bidder as opposed to the standard add a few pence on top of a random number bid

 

[Heith]

The one that gets me is when your watching the few seconds of an auction and the page refreshing and you think to yourself wow bargain/how am I sneaking that past the misses! You find you find yourself outbid, must be a good sniper that literally bids on the last second that either leaves you gutted or thankful you didn't win it!

 

[edd_jedi]

must be a good sniper that literally bids on the last second that either leaves you gutted or thankful you didn't win it!

The one I use does it 2 seconds before the auction ends

 

[indianawars]

Unfortunately this is just how eBay works. It's a flawed system I'll admit, IMO there should be no end time an the auction should simply end when a period of time passes with no new bids, like how a real auction works. But because eBay revolves around sniping, you have to use a sniper. I use this one:

http://www.goofbay.com

Bidding in advance simply drives the price up, if you have any sense set a snipe and forget about it. It also takes any "emotion" out of the auction (eg paying too much because you got caught up in a bidding war.)

Having said that, if you REALLY need something you should bid yourself. The online snipers are not foolproof, I have lost out on a few things because the bid has not been placed for some reason.

I've herd of snipe, but never really understood it until now... Thank you for the link, it'll defiantly be something I will be using in my arsenal against eBay.