How To Lose...

[oldskool69]

Okay...So I see this Marantz PH32 on eBay and want to bid on it...watching carefully to strike at the right time so I don't get bid up needlessly by shillers, etc...

And work gets in the way = missfire.

Anybody else have a sadsack story of when life just gets in the way. Not neccesarily and emergency, just day to day drudgery...

 

[blu_fuz]

I feel your pain buddy. At least a handful of times I get caught up in 'life' and miss getting my bid in.

 

[ledmeter]

Sure do. I set my alarm to wake at 1.30am to bid on a jeagam which I'd wanted for 5 years, since Ned got one. I seemed to be in the lead, bidding away on my phone in bed, and SNAP!, a sniper got me in the last 1/2 second.

Prior to this I was bidding recently on an M-70GX. I went to place my bids but a server error shut down my connection. I tried to bid a minimum of 14 times. Each with the same result.
At least she's in good hands.

 

[Reli]

I still havent' bothered to start using one of those e-sniping app's. Lots of people use them, but I heard you have to keep creating new passwords to get around Ebay rules.

 

[tshorba]

M-90 on ebay.au (extremely rare here) placed a last couple of seconds bid, loading, loading, loading. Missed out on it and my bid was higher than the final price not to say that the winner didn't bid much higher than me but it still hurt

 

[ledmeter]

Worse for me are the local scores people get while I'm looking elsewhere.
Recently a C-100 sold at the south Hobart tip shop, complete and working, $10.
I found out who bought it yesterday. I am going to pursue.
The crap part is that I was going up there that day, as I do every Saturday, and some stupid thing came up, and I never made it.

Also decided to drive home a different route from work once. The 5 days I spent not using the main street, a JC2000 sat in the window of a buy and sell.
It sold for $65. I drove home that way ever since and have never seen another box enter that building.

 

[ledmeter]

M-90 on ebay.au (extremely rare here) placed a last couple of seconds bid, loading, loading, loading. Missed out on it and my bid was higher than the final price not to say that the winner didn't bid much higher than me but it still hurt

Same for me with the GX. I was laying 500 sweet clams on it when my browser failed to comply.

 

[Scotty_M]

A lot of hurt in this thread!
I've had my fair share of miss-outs too. Not as bad as your conion story though Warren!
Some of my sad stories have been where i've paid too much for a box. haha

Matt, that might have been the M90 i won a few months back for $950? I got $100 refund for a dead deck though (despite his listing saying that it worked fine! wtf).

Scott

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

My only real story of eBay heart break was learning how people spike you at the last second.....Especially when you were SO SURE you had it

Man, that sh@t hurts :annoyed:


Not the same, but still hurt....

I was bidding on a radio in yahoo.jp I had been following....was looking good....then got drunk and forgot to bid at the last second and lost it....But it turned out good in the end, because I think Superduper bought it, so we didn't have a bidding war against either other....

The problem is I wanted that radio :annoyed:

 

[Scotty_M]

And what's the consensus on bidding strategy? Bid last second and hope your ONE shot is the highest out of all vying for it
/ OR /
Try to get into an early bidding war to drive up the price somewhat to scare off a lot of people who would have been tempted to have a late flurry (and possibly get carried away in the heat of the moment and spend more than they originally intended)?

One thing i know though is i'm glad ebay hasn't opted to go to a going-going-gone period where if someone bids in the last 10 minutes or so, the auction will continue for another 10 minutes and so on until bids finally stop and only then, after 10 minutes of no bidding will the auction end.

Scott

 

[tshorba]

Matt, that might have been the M90 i won a few months back for $950? I got $100 refund for a dead deck though (despite his listing saying that it worked fine! wtf).

Scott

Nup, it was a few years ago now

Warren, ever get anything from the upscale "tip shop" in Hobart city?

 

[alfie]

My only real story of eBay heart break was learning how people spike you at the last second.....Especially when you were SO SURE you had it

Man, that sh@t hurts :annoyed:


Not the same, but still hurt....

I was bidding on a radio in yahoo.jp I had been following....was looking good....then got drunk and forgot to bid at the last second and lost it....But it turned out good in the end, because I think Superduper bought it, so we didn't have a bidding war against either other....

The problem is I wanted that radio :annoyed:

I tend to get drunk and buy radios I don't really want
Trying to never look on ebay or yahoo after 6 beers........

 

[ledmeter]

Matt, that might have been the M90 i won a few months back for $950? I got $100 refund for a dead deck though (despite his listing saying that it worked fine! wtf).

Scott

Nup, it was a few years ago now

Warren, ever get anything from the upscale "tip shop" in Hobart city?

Nah, they don't stock things like that.. They really should, because they sel old audio and cassette players up there, as well as speakers.. they could condense it all into boomboxes for me seeing as I've given them so much money over my years...
They are the same co-op who run the south Hobart tip shop where the C100 was. They get plenty of boxes in, I know as I had a friend working there who used to keep them for me. Now his girlfriend convinced him not to like me and so the boxes get scrapped or sold without my knowledge.

 

[Ken]

Matt, that might have been the M90 i won a few months back for $950? I got $100 refund for a dead deck though (despite his listing saying that it worked fine! wtf).

Scott

Nup, it was a few years ago now

Warren, ever get anything from the upscale "tip shop" in Hobart city?

Nah, they don't stock things like that.. They really should, because they sel old audio and cassette players up there, as well as speakers.. they could condense it all into boomboxes for me seeing as I've given them so much money over my years...
They are the same co-op who run the south Hobart tip shop where the C100 was. They get plenty of boxes in, I know as I had a friend working there who used to keep them for me. Now his girlfriend convinced him not to like me and so the boxes get scrapped or sold without my knowledge.

Women. Can't live with 'em, can"t shoot em... "