what I go crazy, what did I miss

No, I play it smart and usually pay very little for what I win. And guess what, I have plenty of $ and I like to keep it. You got a problem with that??

 

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Hey Bozo, Did you get my reply??

 

I always snipe when i can. Every auction ends when it's 2-4am in Australia. Sniping also takes the emotion out of the last minutes in an auction - i can offer the most i'd like to pay without being caught up in the last minute craziness.

 

Agreed.

 

Getting back on topic, it reminds me of something that happened a while back. I was following a common but nice coin. I didn't really care if I won it or not and, in the last couple seconds, leisurely entered a bid of $70. To my shock the price jumped to over $700. Turns out I accidentally added a 0 to my bid but someone else bid at least one increment higher.
A day or two later the coin was relisted and sold at around my earlier estimatation.

 

I got it and it seems to be an inordinately angry and insulting reply to something which was intended humorously.

 

Maybe two of you accidentally added a zero?

 

FYI, Clio is a a high end bidder who utterly destroys TIF and the other CTers on CNG. I have never had the pleasure of being dive bombed by him due to my specialization in 4th century coinage.

 

Thank you. I believe if you really want something in an auction you cannot expose yourself by pre bidding. I like to lock in the auction in my watch page and come out of nowhere at the very end. This is my style and I have won many auctions very cheap that way. And I believe that if you pre bid a high amount others will bid you up just because [language] they wanted it for next to nothing. The whole thing is to know the value and bid accordingly.

 

I apologize, I realize now what you meant. Have a nice day.

 

OK, what's a sniping service? Like an Uber for your bids?

 

A lot of times the seller has somebody bid up the auction. And when this happens and the sellers bidder ends up winning, that item will be relisted with the seller giving the excuse that the guy didn't pay or something in those lines.

 

You can google different services, but basically you tell an online computer service your Ebay information, the auction number, and your max bid. The software will automatically bid for you with a few seconds to go. It eliminates the underbidder having time to change his mind and up his bid. If you buy on Ebay, its basically the best way to do it IMHO.

 

That's the only answer I came up with. The seller sent me a message saying that the high bidder didn't pay and he was relisting the coin. He said he wasn't offering me the coin at my previous high bid because he thought the coin was worth much less. I can only say I now double check before sending a bid!

 

Wow, Good on Seller, and nice miss for you.