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

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?

I like to use esnipe and ignore everything on ebay!

I too watch many and win few. Basically I ready my lowball snipe bid and wait. Most times the bid exceeds my would be snipe long before I'm ready to bid. I do enjoy the crazy numbers jumping. Occasionally I have got into a bidding match, but those almost always end in remorse. There are so many razors out there that I try to just by my time and watch.

Since I would compulsively try to out bid everyone (and further cement my place in the poor house), for self preservation I look only at auctions that end at odd times of the day or week. I select what I'm interested or intrigued with, set a max bid and forget about it. Sometimes I win, sometimes I don't. But I did win a microtome for $15. Something that had been at the back of my mind to want. I think I now have all but one each of all the grinds.

Bidding on auctions is the only type of "gambling" I do.

I have enough self control to not go over my budget(most of the time) but it's started getting difficult to find storage space for alll the razors I have.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Since I would compulsively try to out bid everyone (and further cement my place in the poor house), for self preservation I look only at auctions that end at odd times of the day or week. I select what I'm interested or intrigued with, set a max bid and forget about it. Sometimes I win, sometimes I don't. But I did win a microtome for $15. Something that had been at the back of my mind to want. I think I now have all but one each of all the grinds.

So. Richard. Are you going to slice up some tissue for microscopic study, or what?

I love it when someone outbids me at the last second. "WHEW! that was close!"

Originally Posted by sharptonn

So. Richard. Are you going to slice up some tissue for microscopic study, or what?

I thought that when I do use it, because it can slice so thinly, then any 'accidents' I have will only be surface deep. On the other hand, I could use it in culinary endeavors when I want something super thinly cut. Think of it, tissue thin onion slices, transparent radish sections. Prime rib so thin it melts in your mouth.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

I thought that when I do use it, because it can slice so thinly, then any 'accidents' I have will only be surface deep. On the other hand, I could use it in culinary endeavors when I want something super thinly cut. Think of it, tissue thin onion slices, transparent radish sections. Prime rib so thin it melts in your mouth.

That is my plan for this thing!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I love it when someone outbids me at the last second. "WHEW! that was close!"

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