Thread: Sniped...

I don't use a sniper service myself, and when I bid I bid my max, sometimes I win, sometimes I don't. I'll admit snipers keep the overall prices low as they don't give the other bidders as much time ro reconsider the value, but that's a good thing.

A sniper will put up the same mazimum bid as they would when not sniping in my opinion.

All in all I tend to bid on items that are misspelled or mislisted.

Guys I gotta tell you If I know you want it and I don't really care about it I am more than willing to step aside. But if its something I want or need don't think that just because another member is bidding on it I won't. I mean ebays all about who willing to pay the most. And expecting someone to step aside just because your bidding is silly.

I like ebay in general, but tend to hate it if there's something I want on it. See, the problem with ebay is that the value of something is not just determined by its "intrinsic" worth as a razor, say, but by how much someone else, whom you don't know and have never met before, values it. The value of the razor is one thing - the value that someone else places on it is sometimes quite another.

So you might value a particular razor, not unreasonably, at $60 dollars, put a max.bid on it of $80 (just to be sure), and then discover that someone from the Antipodes valued it at $350 because their great uncle once performed an emergency tracheotomy on the Prime Minister of Australia with one of the same type during the great flood of '62. On his deathbed he charged his great-nephew to find that razor (a map to the greatest treasure Australia has ever seen - a thanks from a grateful Prime Minister - is coded into the scales) and you, poor bugger, simply got in the way of a 20-year quest across 5 continents and involving a bevy of beautiful, but sinister, femme fatales from a rival family bent on avenging a 6-generation feud.....

Next time you bid, think about that....


James.

I could try to defend the reasoning behind what I proposed, but I feel I should just stop posting at this point. You know that guy in your group of friends that says " how about we ...(fill in the blank with some bad idea)?" and every makes a face and just turns and looks at him and someone says "how about we not"...
well I'm apparently that guy in this forum....

Even though that may be one way to look at it, I'm pretty sure there have been plenty of us who have thought the same thing when we've kept being outbid. Plus we've talked about this stuff many times that we've already essentially reached a consensus on the matter. I think you've done a great service to all the new frustrated members by letting the rest of us sound all smart and all knowing

I think eventually everybody gets few good razors and stops worrying too much about the razors that we've missed. I am very happy to say that my best razors and my best deals I have gotten not on ebay, but from SRP members.

Of course I've got my share of great deals that I may have missed on, but there are plenty of good ones I've gotten too and I've been at this just about 6 months.
As long as we're having fun I think we're doing fine.

Prices have risen but I remember a few years ago when I might have had RAD, which never infested me, when a guy on Ebay was a collector. I forget his name. This guy was very wealthy and he bid $1000 on every razor on Ebay. He would win every razor and then throw it into his collection. He had endless amounts of money. The only reason any of us are winning any razors today is because he lost interest. Either that or the ricin powder I shook all over the one razor I sold on Ebay.

Well I hope that if I ever get around to listing any razors/shaving gear of mine, that the gentlemen put on their gloves.
It would be so disappointing to see an item do poorly just because of the "I saw this first & I am going to snipe xxx amount of $$$, so would you all kindly step back and let me win this sucker for as little as possible".
Hell, if an SRP member didn't want anyone to know he was going to snipe on anothers claim ~ he'd just create a new Ebay ID & just go for it!

Bugger the gentlemen, give me a caveman any day ~ or better still a "barber ian"
......momma

I have been going to auctions as lon as I remember. My mother loved to go to auctions we went every weekend to sales and flea markets. I love to go "junkin" as we called it. The thrill was in finding a treasure hiden in a box of junk they were throwing together at the end of the sale and selling for one money. This said the person who looses at the end of the sale is the person with either less money or less desire to own the item.

As for sniping I hate it. I think the true sprit of the auction is to watch and bid. I realize that people cant just sit ad wait for a given item to end but proxy bidding helps with that. I sometimes end my auctions early to foil snipers. I like the idea of the floating finish. Extend the sale a given time past the last bid. This gives a true auction end. Going once, Going twice, sold to the higest bidder.

Don

Yep being perfectly honest here, I snipe every thing... and I think those of you that don't, drive up the prices worse than the e-bay newbies.... sorry that's just the way I see it....
I however don't usually target pretty shiny razors I target potential....

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Yep being perfectly honest here, I snipe every thing... and I think those of you that don't, drive up the prices worse than the e-bay newbies.... sorry that's just the way I see it....
I however don't usually target pretty shiny razors I target potential....

exactly.
There was a time I hated snipers. Now if I really want something I snipe it. I've paid 4 prices for something in my earlier days at this stuff, just because of a bidding war...and guess what. The next one or two of those? went for a higher price.
It's how prices go up. That, and for some reason if Lynn even thought about a razor more than twice the prices went up on the things.

John P.