Has this ever happened to you?

[A2600]

You see an auction you like, and the starting bid is so low that you know you are going to get passed but the clock ticks no one passes you and you start loosing interest in the item and want someone to pass you and when they do pass you you fight back with a higher bid.

 

I kinda feel like that with this particular one. But I want to win it!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...me=STRK:MEBI:IT

[jetset]

It's called....

buying on impulse, the having buyers regret.

Just with ebay you get to do it over, and over, and over again until the auction ends.....

 

Ain't it FUN?!?!?!?!?! :wink:

[Mindfield]

I've done that so many times. I bid on something on pure impulse and for whatever reason prompted me to do so in the first place, then realize a short time later that, upon further consideration, I didn't really want it. This usually occurs when I step outside my normal routine and actually put a proxy on it for the most I'd want to pay for it instead of just putting a token in so I can return later and snipe it.

 

One of two things usually happen to me at that point:

 

1) I end up winning it anyway, and usually at my maximum bid (which now seems a tad too high), or

2) I get outbid by someone I don't like or would hate to see win it away from me and feel obligated to prevent him from having it.

[A2600]

With 23 Hrs left im starting to want the item, eventhough the condition of the item is not good the total price (item price + shipping) is not that bad for a worthless piece of audio junk!!

[bjk7382]

That is another reason to use software or website snipers, you can go back anytime you want, up until 5 min to the end of the auction and delete/update your bid.

[Mindfield]

Bah! Software/web snipers are for wimps. Real men snipe with their hands, dammit! And it feels mighty good, too.

 

I mean, just imagine what would happen to the NASDAQ if all the day traders just showed up to leave their WiFi PDAs littering the trading floor to monitor stock levels and make proxy purchases/sales all day. Chaos, I tell you!

 

[bjk7382]

Real men snipe with their hands, dammit!  

 

Real men also have jobs and can't catch the end of every auction.

[Rockin' Kat]

I usually use sniping software so I can cancel my bid if something else comes up that I'd like to spend my money on more. That and I always seem to be at work when the auctions I'm following end.

 

As far as the few times where I've bid on an auction early rather than sniping I have gone back over it and over it wondering if I should have bid.... but usually I never bid a second time because I always set the Proxy bid to what I felt it was worth to me the first time.

[A2600]

Real men snipe with their hands, dammit!  

 

Real men also have jobs and can't catch the end of every auction.

 

Some are on Vacation and have the opportunity trace it till the end

[AtariLeaf]

Real men snipe with their hands, dammit!  

 

Real men also have jobs and can't catch the end of every auction.

 

Hey leave Mindfield alone. He got a promotion and he's using the new money wisely!

[Mindfield]

Real men snipe with their hands, dammit!  

 

Real men also have jobs and can't catch the end of every auction.

 

True. But them's the breaks, and just makes the hunt that much more interesting. :-) Plus, if I won every auction I bid on I'd be a freakin' pauper. :-)

[Mindfield]

Hey leave Mindfield alone. He got a promotion and he's using the new money wisely!  

 

My bank account would disagree -- but hey. It's all good. :-)

[sku_u]

With 23 Hrs left im starting to want the item, eventhough the condition of the item is not good the total price (item price + shipping) is not that bad for a worthless piece of audio junk!!

 

There's always plenty of old stereo equipment like that one out on the curb that I'll gladly pick up for you and sell you for the current price of that auction.

 

That item really is a piece of garbage in that condition.

[A2600]

With 23 Hrs left im starting to want the item, eventhough the condition of the item is not good the total price (item price + shipping) is not that bad for a worthless piece of audio junk!!

 

There's always plenty of old stereo equipment like that one out on the curb that I'll gladly pick up for you and sell you for the current price of that auction.

 

That item really is a piece of garbage in that condition.

 

Im a Audio Techie so I'll have that puppie as good as new, when it arrives. I hope!!

 

Sky, thanks for the offer. But I think this is as cheap as i can pick up a Dynamic processor.

[A2600]

I won the auction!! Item 4.99+12.95 shipping, the seller contacted me this morning saying that the Item does work great and that I wont be dissapointed!! So lets pay and wait for her to arrive!!

 

woooooo hoooo

[A2600]

Now the big question is where in my system should I put it??

 

In the "stack" or under the DVD on the shelf??

 

Take a look at my system and tell me where this puppy goes?

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