When sniping is just plain stupid...

thedelihaus

thedelihaus

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Had to share this....


I've been trying to land some banana plugs with a $0.99 cent buy-it-now, but opening bid of $.01....

I bid, for goofs and giggles, the opening bid of $0.01, with a max of $0.99, and for the umpteenth time in 3 weeks, I get outbid- for a winning bid of $1.00 or more!!! sometimes, much more!

I'm doing this for experiments and fun right now, as cripes, the aggrivation of a $0.99 buy-it-now compared to a possible $0.98 win, is outright silly. If I wanted them enough, I'd go for the buy-it-now.

But the constant wackyness of someone going higher than ther buy-it-now price, just to beat me out, is keeping me in laughter!

It's become a fun game to watch the bidding.

so far, those $0.99 buy-it-now items have gone as high as over $5 and in a few instances, over $9 in a sniper bid between a few fellas.

And always in the last minute.





goofballs!:yes::banana::D
 
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thedelihaus said:
Had to share this....


I've been trying to land some banana plugs with a $0.99 cent buy-it-now, but opening bid of $.01....

I bid, for goofs and giggles, the opening bid of $0.01, with a max of $0.99, and for the umpteenth time in 3 weeks, I get outbid- for a winning bid of $1.00 or more!!! sometimes, much more!

I'm doing this for experiments and fun right now, as cripes, the aggrivation of a $0.99 buy-it-now compared to a possible $0.98 win, is outright silly. If I wanted them enough, I'd go for the buy-it-now.

But the constant wackyness of someone going higher than ther buy-it-now price, just to beat me out, is keeping me in laughter!

It's become a fun game to watch the bidding.

so far, those $0.99 buy-it-now items have gone as high as over $5 and in a few instances, over $9 in a sniper bid between a few fellas.

And always in the last minute.

goofballs!:yes::banana::D
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:lmao::lmao::lmao::beerchug:

Sounds like the sniper needs a spotter ??? ......

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I'm gonna keep doing it, 'till I win- and see how many I can count!

Funny, the seller has tons of 'em- a simple check of the seller's store is bound to turn up dozens of pair at any given time.

for less than what they're sniping for. :screwy:

must be the thrill of the chase?

:pistols::uzi::yippy::smshot: :banana:
 
Missed a nice CR-2020 recently, but felt content because I stuck it to the sniper, don't think he quite planned on spending that much for it.:D

There may be lower life-forms, but I can't offhand think of any.
 
That seller must love you, Deli.....you're helping to drive his prices up. But it is sheer lunacy to enter a snipe greater than the BIN. Absolutely moronic. Someone entering snipes like that not only is stupid, but doesn't have a life.

Purpose of sniping isn't to screw someone else, its to win things on your own terms - or not win them.

Thanks for sharing this amusement...
 
On a similar note, i always find it quite entertaining when i come across those auctions that have 14 bids, all from the same bidder who obviously became frustrated because the bid amount wasn't increasing.
 
The pshychology of Ebay bidding can be the subject of a fascinating topic all on its own. I agree. Some of the goings-on out there seemingly (and often times blatantly) defy common sense. But don't underestimate the powers of stupid and behind-the-monitor safety of Internet anonymity. I'm sure the following mindests can all be applied to some bidders out there:

A last-minute winning snipe as a pyhrric victory: It's not that "I" won it so much as it is "you" LOST it. Some people probably put no price on pride and "victory".

I'm sure there are still incremental 'nibblers' out there who still don't understand the Proxy Bid system. I'm also sure that there are an equal number of people who DO understand it and use it to their advantage: either A) to max out someone elses proxy and/or see what the reserve is, or B) along with the "middle-finger-snipe" figure that if they can't or won't get it at the price they wanted, just assume run up a proxy so they can have the satisfaction of knowing that while they didn't win it, the person who did is going to pay through the nose for it.

As for bidding ABOVE a BIN, I have no idea what rationale could possibly be behind it. For that scenario, I am truly at a loss for words. This is, of course, assuming that the BIN is still there (i.e. the item has a not yet met reserve). Keep in mind that in some cases, you might've been watching an item that opened with a BIN and then someone came along, placed a bid, and the BIN vanished. Then later on, someone else bids over what the original BIN was. Most likely in that case, it's not that someone is being stupid. It's just that they didn't happen to stumble across the item when the BIN is present and is thus none-the-wiser. But to you, it looks like idiocy.

Just my $.02.

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DL-Perception isn't always reality. Just when it makes no cents
 
True and good points, Des Lab, but I don't think them 99 cent BIN banana plugs had a reserve LOL
 
If and when I buy anything on ebay I do research of past sales for a while then decide what the most I will spend is. Paying 9 times the going price is just nuts. :scratch2:
 
Des_Lab said:
As for bidding ABOVE a BIN, I have no idea what rationale could possibly be behind it. For that scenario, I am truly at a loss for words. This is, of course, assuming that the BIN is still there (i.e. the item has a not yet met reserve). Keep in mind that in some cases, you might've been watching an item that opened with a BIN and then someone came along, placed a bid, and the BIN vanished. Then later on, someone else bids over what the original BIN was. Most likely in that case, it's not that someone is being stupid. It's just that they didn't happen to stumble across the item when the BIN is present and is thus none-the-wiser. But to you, it looks like idiocy.

Just my $.02.

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Agreed!
I've had that happen on my auctions several times recently. It looks like it occurs when there isn't enough info for me to set a solid BIN and I actually go too low on it. Ditto the reserve.

I guess the true loser in the deal is the bidder than hits the reserve, and kills the BIN and then winds up losing the item. They should have just hit the BIN and won the item. Or maybe the fence sitters who are watching the item and didn't hit the BIN too.

Not that I mind getting more than my BIN :D
 
spartanmanor said:
If and when I buy anything on ebay I do research of past sales for a while then decide what the most I will spend is. Paying 9 times the going price is just nuts. :scratch2:
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Ditto. That makes lots of sense. Additional on the epay sight you have to be very patient if you want to get an item at your price. Sometimes it depends on who are the the bidders. I have seen an item sold for more than $150 and the then couple days later a nicer one goes for $50.
 
I agree with all the comments here. I snipe myself but never for more than I am truly willing to spend on the item after thorough research on completed auctions. I do so for the following reason. Let's say I am willing to puchase an item for $100. I have found, more often than not, that if I bid $100 early in the auction, no matter what bid is showing as the auction draws to an end, the item will be sniped at the last second for a winning bid of $101. Now, when I snipe $100 in the last several seconds, I find that I will, more often than not, win the auction for something less than my $100 bid. If it goes for $101 to someone else then I know I tried my best and did not bid over my own limit. For some reason it doesn't bother me as much as when I am the one being sniped.

I have suggested anti-sniping tactics to eBay that would both end sniping as we know it and get sellers the highest possible price for their item (and eBay the highest possible final value fee). Evidently eBay is happy with sniping. Heck - you can even buy software that does it automatically. My suggestion was to add time to the end of an auction so that there were no bids in the last 10 minutes - i.e., if there is a bid with 2 seconds to go the auction is extended for 9 minutes 58 seconds. This would need to be an option given to the seller when the auction is listed.

I too am amazed at some of the prices items go for at auction. Many times I have been able to find other auctions with BIN lower than the going price or retailers with lower prices. People just don't research prices or are just plain crazy.

I purchased a pair of Paradigm Reference Studio 100 v.4's NIB off eBay back in June. I paid $1950 for the pair - well under the lowest price I had ever seen these $2599 MSRP speakers go for at retail. The auction stated there was a $1498 BIN but it wasn't showing because some yahoo bid the $1398 minimum and met the seller’s reserve price. I would have paid $1498 in a heartbeat. I just could not understand why anyone that knew anything about these speakers would have passed on that BIN trying to save $100. Fortunately for me, or is that unfortunately, DHL damaged the speakers in shipping and the seller refunded me $498 to cover the cosmetic damage.

Martin
 
Allright...

Add TWO MORE to the folk who "out-sniped/out-smarted (hahahah) me...


The last two beat me out by a nickle each, each separate auction!!!...

All within the last quarter minute!!!


:banana::banana::banana:
 
Ohhh... Crappo!!!

Looks like my patience paid off.

Just won the auction.

Same exact item, same exact seller, differrent listing, same bid procedure.


Winning bid?

$0.01.



I guess patience is a virtue.


'Cept no more fun watching people bid upwards of $9 bucks for the same dng item, one the seller has bucketloads of.:headscrat:screwy:
 
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