Thread: I love watching the last minute of an eBay auction...

Yes - it is enjoyable to watch...I usually try to just bid once....and 8 times out of 10, I'll win it...but have had the carpet pulled from underneath me a few times, undoubtedly by some members here...and every time, I have to admit, I laugh...to scoop or get scooped in the last seconds is truly fun!! Nooo dooot abooot it...as we say here!

I kinda like watching 2 or 3 go at it dollar at a time, 48 bids to the last seconds, 62 dollars on the line, and then "BOOM" dropping a bomb. It's like stopping a silly argument with a back hand upside the head :<0)

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Glad to see you are feeling better. Uh...can we see a Wade and Butcher which looks as a Mappin Bros Lancet now?
Don't want to be too much trouble this late!

Uh, better wait till tomorrow, more than one sherry imbibed, hic!

What are you referring to about the e snipe? What is that?

Originally Posted by LaneC

What are you referring to about the e snipe? What is that?

You don't know what e-snipe is....well...all I can say is...

(edit: just a little humor btw...no offence meant.)

I've found that when in a rural area, my in-laws who have Hughes-Net Satellite for internet, my cell phone connection is a couple seconds faster.


Mike

It's a rush for sure no matter if I win or lose. Usually I bid on impulse at the last few minutes and then hold my breath wanting to lose but hoping to win and grateful either way. The impulse bids are the worst because I usually watch the item(s) for a few days until the last five minutes when I get a notification and have to decide then and there on if I will bid or not.

Originally Posted by AndrewJM

I dont know if anyone else enjoys it, but I love watching the last minute of a razor auction on ebay...

Whether I'm bidding or not (more interesting / nerve racking if bidding), I enjoy the anticipation when a razor is $20-50 one minute from auction close, and not knowing if it will jump by $1 or end up at hundreds+

I hate it when I'm expecting a razor to go far past what I'd be prepared to bid, to find it close at a price far under what I would have paid, yet at the same time, if I put a hopeful bid on all that interest me, I'd be broke and sleeping in the gutter.

*** Also, the thing that I hate the most (due to crappy IT at work [and I work for a company with annual profit around 7 billion - yet the internet is about as fast and reliable as dial-up internet]) is when I try to place a bid and my system freezes and my bid isn't placed and I lose the auction - happened the other day with a W&B magnetic razor - The closing bid was about 100 under what I attempted to bid ... If any of you happened to be the winner, please PM me lol

What does everyone else enjoy / hate about eBay auctions? Any great wins or losses?

This is why you should use an automatic sniper program, and why I have a nice shiny Magnetic razor

Originally Posted by Tarkus

That's your favorite thing in the whole wide world, dropping it on the other guy...

You betcha , Because I bid way more than I was supposed to. I let my testosterone get the better of me. So its a whew got out of that one with my shirt still on. My latest strategy is like so many others set my amount and then wait till the end. Try and not get my buttons pushed.
My all time favorite was my max bid on a Boker Damascus was $50. Bidding ended at $54 and somehow I won. Lost 30 more auctions buy a couple of bucks.

I have had some good plucks recently. Just won a near mint dubl duck goldedge. I refreshed the newly listed page and there it was, buy it now for $45. It looks to be in great shape but I guess I'll find out for sure when it gets here. I also just won a W&B FBU 1 inches for a mere 90$ when they have been going for several hundred lately. I'm still waiting for a 9/8 the celebrated FBU to pop up with a buy it now for under a hundred, but that's just me dreaming lol!