Thread: EBAY IDIOT

thanks guys,
i am still laughing at myself... pjrage you have hit it on the Pin(pardon the pun!) last time i do that.
apart from that expensive blade i have won 7 blades tonight..ranging from £0.99- £5.99.
here isd the item No of the expensive one Item number: 120378990771

tell you what that one i am going to lavish all the best spines pins polish and honing the lot and i am going to use that as my special occasion razor.
catchya soon
Brian

Oh man, it's hilarious, but i do feel for you!
Thank you for making me feel better about my recent purchases.
Old Cut Throat Razor Buck & Ryan Ltd London with box on eBay, also, Barber Shop Shaving, Vanity Perfume Grooming, Collectables (end time 20-Feb-09 17:49:31 GMT)
That seller surely can't believe their luck!
It's a nice enough razor.

ouch, I try to think of what will happen to me if I win an auction at a certain price.. then I calculate the worst consequence that I can handle... then I bid the price that will cause that consequence, or one less severe

I am really sorry to hear about you recent Ebay experience. I must tell you that I always feel intimidated by Ebay. I always tell people to stay away from Ebay but Ebay is like a magnet that draws people to it. I have had many problems and because of that, I have strong opinions about Ebay. I can say that among the many problems I have had bidding on Ebay, this has never been one of them. I typically bid an amount that I think is fair for the item and if I do not get it, which has happened many times, I never feel bad. I can count with the number of times that I wished I had bid a little higher. Perhaps the golden rule is: "never to bid more than you are willing to pay", regardless of whether you bid early or late.

Al raz.

Never mind. With a sig like that, you should be able to console yourself with a jolly nice bike ride at the weekend

Originally Posted by Moggs

Never mind. With a sig like that, you should be able to console yourself with a jolly nice bike ride at the weekend

ha ha cheers Moggs, ya know what think i just might, was gettin off with blasting around on my Vespa.
take care,
Brian

one can get carried away when bidding on the flea-bay when not carefull. It's so easy to hit that buy or bid button.
Sometimes it even feels like someone knew exactly what your highest bid was gonna be when he wins that auction by $1.00.
I do always look at the shipping charges first. As much as I'd love to bid on a razor if I find the shipping charges to be excessive I don't even bother and continue looking.

Originally Posted by freebird

been there, done that, maybe not quite as expensive as you did it tho. I usually use a sniping program and have it set at the most I would pay, if someone wants to pay more than I do then they can have it.

Sniping? *wags his finger* That's hardly fair to other bidders! Besides, as someone who's sold on ebay before, it's a real pain in the rear to wait for six days, twenty three hours fifty nine minutes and fifty five seconds to see any activity. :P

Tough luck but what I want to know is why wasn't I the seller of that razor. I'd be raking in the bucks now.

Tough luck Brian but it might turn out to be a great shaver. Once I had a Schwinn Paramount bicycle that came to me with no head badge. A head badge for a vintage Paramount brings a good buck on ebay and I really wanted one.

I was prepared to go say $60.00 USD but in my haste when putting in my snipe I put a comma where I should have typed a period and I bid thousands of dollars. Needless to say I "won" the auction. I payed $125.00 for the head badge.

I told the seller what had happened. Not looking to back out of it but just for the LOL. He felt so bad for me that he included extra bicycle parts when he shipped the head badge.