Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests !!!!! Ebay rant.

Originally posted by Kokopellian:

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<---------- Professional Ebay Sniper It's the ONLY way to go.

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<---- Ebay sniper in training. Getting pretty good too

I use the 2 window method like was already mentioned.

Originally posted by TodrasByAssociation:

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Tabbed browsing in Fire fox is awesome!

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So is dual monitors

Originally posted by path914:

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I can't imagine bidding on anything with 5 days left in an auction. If you really want something you have to be there when it gets sold, heck I usually bid on things within the last 10 seconds and I still get outbid quite often. Just the nature of the beast IMHO...

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Exactly. The point of Ebay IMO is to get the stuff you want a the LOWEST possible price you can get if for, not your highest proxy bid. Therefore, sniping is essential.

Case in point, a few years back I wanted this cherry 93' Stang 5.0 coupe that was on Ebay. It had a lot of action as you can imagine however, I utilized my honed sniping skills and landed the ride. Beat the competing bidder out by $100. He was SOOOO pissed that he emailed me afterward, whined about it, and called me a dirty bastard! LOL! Boohoohoo. I sure didn't feel bad when I was driving my 5.0 around. Nor did I feel bad when I sold it for $3k more than I paid for it.

Originally posted by NVMYSVT:

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thats how ebay rolls.. it pisses me off when people whine about how they missed out on something -- it's ebay.. its an auction!!! You just gotta be smart and learn how to use it.

I never ever ever bid on anything I want until the last 50 seconds or so.. why the hell would I bid on something 6 days from when it ends only to know that I need to watch and rebid again later?

The rule of thumb is to bid your absolute max you'd pay at about 40 seconds left.. it normally always wins me what I want because the person who was winning doesn't know that I just increased the next bid by another 20-50 dollars - they just assume I threw up another dollar or whatever its going by for increments..

I recently won 3 auctions from someone else who owned a Contour -- he had been winning all 3 for the last 5 days and right at the end I took it all - 1 auction after the other until I got everything.. He sent me evil hate mail and tried to make me feel guilty because he really did need the parts.. I just laughed because obviously he didn't realize that it is an auction, you need to outwit everyone else and I needed the parts too otherwise I wouldn't have bid on them.

I'm a freaking ebay MASTER.

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LOL, you got skills man!

Originally posted by PackRat:

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I bid on an official Honda factory 1997 Odyssey service manual on ebay 5 days ago. It sat there, me being the SOLE bidder for the last 5 days. Then, while the wife and I were out and about, some [censored] comes in and outbids me with 2 hours left in the auction. I bet he's going to turn around and re-auction the manual for more than what he paid for because judging by his feedback he's an ebay "pro". Ticks me the [censored] off.

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Poor baby.

Maybe if it was so important you'd make sure you checked on the auction before it ended ? Sniping isn't a new thing for goodness sakes.

Would you like ebay to wipe your ass too ?

Originally posted by ODC:

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Originally posted by PackRat:

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I bid on an official Honda factory 1997 Odyssey service manual on ebay 5 days ago. It sat there, me being the SOLE bidder for the last 5 days. Then, while the wife and I were out and about, some [censored] comes in and outbids me with 2 hours left in the auction. I bet he's going to turn around and re-auction the manual for more than what he paid for because judging by his feedback he's an ebay "pro". Ticks me the [censored] off.

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Poor baby.

Maybe if it was so important you'd make sure you checked on the auction before it ended ? Sniping isn't a new thing for goodness sakes.

Would you like ebay to wipe your ass too ?

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Originally posted by PackRat:

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Poor baby.

Maybe if it was so important you'd make sure you checked on the auction before it ended ? Sniping isn't a new thing for goodness sakes.

Would you like ebay to wipe your ass too ?

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Let me explain something since you are obviously too [censored] stupid to understand what I've written previously. I WASN'T HOME AT THE TIME THE [censored] AUCTION ENDED.

Now kindly go [censored] yourself.

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