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

I just set my Snipe program and go to bed

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?

Originally Posted by Phrank

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?

I've got three of those blades now. I'm seriously thinking seven day set, in black horn. A long term project for sure that may never come to pass, but I'm going to try.