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<p>[QUOTE="ZoidMeister, post: 6326693, member: 114169"]<b>I swear</b> that with a seller or two on fleaBay, as the auction nears it's end - only a few hours left - some bidder comes out of the woodwork, places a nuclear bid, then retracts, leaving my maximum as my "last bid." This is why I have been placing my max bid lately with a sniping service and <b>NOT</b> publicly as <b>SOME</b> sellers know enough to do this bid retraction crap.</p><p><br /></p><p>This exposes whatever my maximum bid is to the seller, one in particular who I think might be a member here and / or on another "notable" numismatics forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also had the occasion that IF my high bid isn't "high enough", I have had my bid and the auction cancelled within minutes of it's close, before the sniping service hits. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Case in point: </b> I publicly bid $15.00 on an item worth many times that amount. The opening bid was around $5 if I remember correctly. I had a sniper service set up to bid nearly $100 a few seconds from the auction end. I guess no one else had any interest in this item, so my "opening" bid of $5 ($15 actually) held to minutes before the auction end. The auction was cancelled by the seller, my bid cancelled and the item relisted, with about one minute left.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>But to your point:</b> I recently dropped a nuclear bid on something as a snipe only to discover someone else ALSO had a nuclear bid on it. Fortunately (or not) my nuke was a tad bit larger than his nuke, and I won, which qualifies me for the "secret hand shake" . . . . . . </p><p><br /></p><p>LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>Z[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ZoidMeister, post: 6326693, member: 114169"][B]I swear[/B] that with a seller or two on fleaBay, as the auction nears it's end - only a few hours left - some bidder comes out of the woodwork, places a nuclear bid, then retracts, leaving my maximum as my "last bid." This is why I have been placing my max bid lately with a sniping service and [B]NOT[/B] publicly as [B]SOME[/B] sellers know enough to do this bid retraction crap. This exposes whatever my maximum bid is to the seller, one in particular who I think might be a member here and / or on another "notable" numismatics forum. I have also had the occasion that IF my high bid isn't "high enough", I have had my bid and the auction cancelled within minutes of it's close, before the sniping service hits. [B]Case in point: [/B] I publicly bid $15.00 on an item worth many times that amount. The opening bid was around $5 if I remember correctly. I had a sniper service set up to bid nearly $100 a few seconds from the auction end. I guess no one else had any interest in this item, so my "opening" bid of $5 ($15 actually) held to minutes before the auction end. The auction was cancelled by the seller, my bid cancelled and the item relisted, with about one minute left. [B]But to your point:[/B] I recently dropped a nuclear bid on something as a snipe only to discover someone else ALSO had a nuclear bid on it. Fortunately (or not) my nuke was a tad bit larger than his nuke, and I won, which qualifies me for the "secret hand shake" . . . . . . LOL Z[/QUOTE]
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