Thread: Why you might wait until the last seconds to place your max bid.

There are lots of deals, you have to be prepared to take the risk, I took a chance on a very fuzzy photo of an old W&B FBU, turned out to be a stunning 8/8, spike point, in beautiful shape. Along with this one, nailed this W&B Celebrated, for $75.00, and it turns out it's an 8/8 as well, or very, very close, they are both with Valery now, but the deals can be had, you just have to hunt using different descriptions and go through the links, many razors are just listed as old or antique, and some other obscure descriptions people come up with.

This is the one I recently got for $75.00, doesn't look like much, but when I got it I was blown away, fit perfectly against my Revisor 8/8:

that an awesome razor, currently I'm hunting for some vintage 8/8 myself but they are quite hard to find for decent prize, in summer I might have to check out some antique stores nearby maybe they will have something interesting.

Here's the fuzzy photo of the W&B FBU I took a chance on, turned out to be an 8/8 in excellent shape, and got it for $120.00. This one is with Valery now as well.

And to Hart's point, a perfect last second snipe job!

120$ is kinda lot to take a chance but I'm just very cheap person , but I'm glad that it turned out well for you
Rafal

Originally Posted by HaiKarate

Reminds me of a sellers proxy bidder driving up the price. Ever lose by a few clams only to see the item relisted the next day?

Second chance offers, too. I figure if I got beat by a dollar or so and *didn't* participate in an esnipe, and *then* get a second chance offer after that, I will not ever take the offer. It happens to me from time to time, I'd imagine when the person proxy bidding on behalf of the seller wrongly assumes that a bid I make 10 minutes before an auction ends is subject to a volley of bidding at the last second.

Got one of those yesterday, actually.

I follow glen's strategy most of the time for just about anything on ebay. Put a proxy bid in on esnipe and then never look at it again. If I bid early, it's just what I'd have put in esnipe, anyway, but it's probably better policy to proxy bid because you can change your mind without consequence.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I just set my Snipe program and go to bed

Same here. I find that all the action takes place in the final 60 seconds. Putting too much into it early on causes people to probe how deep your commitment is. Forcing the action to take place at the very end levels the playing field. The only time I bid early is when I see something really nice but not something I'm overly interested in at a low price. My thinking is that if someone is going to pick this one up at bargain of a price, it'll be me. If not, someone can outbid me and I'll be fine with that too.

I've never cared much for those sniper programs.
I simply put in my maximum bid and wait for the email telling me I've won.

I do a little of this, a little of that. I put an early bid on it. Nice and low. Where I would be happily amazed if I won it. Later on, I decide if I actually want to go any higher on it. Sometimes I will put a proxy bid of a higher amount, and sometimes I will go to the snipe and set that instead. All depends on how bad I want it. Or, if I am in a bad mood, how badly I don't want YOU to have it!

Happy day, there were no further bids on it. I still think if I had done a last seconds bid I might have saved $40.

Very nice! That's a great looking blade...I'd have that off to Valery for some rehab and wait for it's glorious return...personally, that would be stunning all cleaned up, with a nice new bevel set and finished on his Escher, and of course, a beautiful set of black buffalo horn 3-pin scales, or maybe even some blonde horn....do you have any restoration plans for it?