Thread: so own up, who beat me to this!?

i was watching this like a hawk and someone sniped in at the end and won it! totally gutted i missed it! this is becoming rather annoying to say the least!

so, own up, who won it!?

NATURAL SHARPENING STONE on eBay (end time 09-Jan-11 19:02:09 GMT)

Not me how what you think you were cheated out of

I got my Charnley Forest from that seller awhile ago and paid significantly more.

Not sure if the stone linked though is a charnley...

I didn't won or even bid on it. There was no mention about the grit so how can you know what you get?

i think the seller is a bit of a fly boy to be honest, he knows fine well what hes selling from the contact ive had with him over messages. just really gutted i didnt win it, i was hovering over my computer the whole time and then got beaten at the very last second, literally. i think it was a sniping program used as i couldnt believe it!
who knows, but im just feeling bitter as a lemon right now, ive bought that many stones now!

what exactly is "sniping?" I assume it is just a last second bid but am I missing something? I thought that was very common on almost all auctions

it is very common but this was slightly fishy, it reached 1 sec and then even flashed up on my screen that it was over THEN i was outbid!
very weird, and first time ive seen that happen!

If you want to win an auction you have to enter the highest bid. Whether in the beginning (not recommended) or at the end. Someone wanted it more than you did. I enter my bid manually, no sniping program. I like the adrenaline rush.

I snipe in the last 4 seconds or so with my max bid. The + on this is that I'm not encouraged to bid more whereas if I were to bid earlier and wasn't highest I'd be inclined to break my resolution and go for more. The 4 second thing leaves me winning or losing with no time to send in another bid.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I snipe in the last 4 seconds or so with my max bid. The + on this is that I'm not encouraged to bid more whereas if I were to bid earlier and wasn't highest I'd be inclined to break my resolution and go for more. The 4 second thing leaves me winning or losing with no time to send in another bid.

I do this as well unless I know I won't be around to place the bid then I will enter my highest bid before I leave the house. I have learned the hard way that emotional bidding is a baddddddddddddd thing. Luckily I learned that lesson when ebay was still in it's infancy.

You should bid the amount you are willing to pay for it, not just trying to beat the current highest bid. If you were willing to pay more than GBP 41, you should have bid more.

Still sucks to get outbid even if you were not willing to pay more and see someone else get it for just 1 unit more.

I actually have a stone just like it. I kind of thought it was a dark ToS but it's finer than I would expect from one. A Charnley Forest it's not.