Thread: EBAY IDIOT

As they say in New Jersey, "not for nothin"....... you say that you are relatively new at this and that you have 42 more on your watch list. If you were to ask me ...... and I know that you didn't but ....... take it easy on the acquisition for awhile.

If you are new at it you probably haven't really decided what you prefer in a razor yet. Also it may be hard to get your money out of some of these if you are buying razors that aren't especially desireable to shavers or to collectors. I would rather spend a bit more on a "good" razor and have something I can turn over if I want then a cheapie that I can't get my $$ out of.

hey, go out and buy a keyboard, replace the one you have now. then if you get in trouble say,'remember when I replaced the keyboard?' damn zero was getting stuck, cost me 80 bucks (200 instead of 20, went for 100).

Red

You know, we never considered how the seller must feel. He must have been dancing in circles. Hell, he says in the auction he doesn't know anything about razors. Now that he "knows" how much he can get for them, he's probably out paying $50 for razors worth $10, thinking he can sell them for $100 I'm sure he'll get his too

In certain cases, like the one you described, ebay will let you rescind your bid immediately after the auction. You can read up on the rules. Just something to keep in mind...

I have heard of people doing what I think you did, putting in a max bid so high that they were sure to win the auction... the only problem is it only takes one other person to have the same idea...

I do pretty much what the others do here, but I put in a max bid a few dollars higher than what I'm willing to pay. I really hate it if I lose by like 3$-10$ or something like that. However, I do sometimes get the "Damn, thats more than I wanted to pay" feeling, so I guess its a trade off about feeling bad and having what you want and not having it...

Originally Posted by Pete_S

I do pretty much what the others do here, but I put in a max bid a few dollars higher than what I'm willing to pay. I really hate it if I lose by like 3$-10$ or something like that. However, I do sometimes get the "Damn, thats more than I wanted to pay" feeling, so I guess its a trade off about feeling bad and having what you want and not having it...

That's not rational but I guess it's sort of human nature... You decide the abolute max you're willing to pay. You feel bad if you lose by a few dollars but you don't feel bad if you lose by a lot.

You see something you want and figure you'd be really happy to get it for $70.
You figure that maybe its worth $80 tops.
Then you think that you'd really like to have that so you put in a max bid of $85.
Then when you lose and it goes for $88 you think "Damn! I should have gone to $90"

Originally Posted by Quick

That's not rational but I guess it's sort of human nature... You decide the abolute max you're willing to pay. You feel bad if you lose by a few dollars but you don't feel bad if you lose by a lot.

You see something you want and figure you'd be really happy to get it for $70.
You figure that maybe its worth $80 tops.
Then you think that you'd really like to have that so you put in a max bid of $85.
Then when you lose and it goes for $88 you think "Damn! I should have gone to $90"

That's because, when it comes right down to it, we could have afforded another couple bucks. Seriously, no matter what the item is worth, no matter what you think your "ABSOLUTELY NO MORE" amount is, I can't imagine many, if any, cases where another couple bucks is simply not possible. Therefore, we hate to lose by just a couple bucks.

Originally Posted by pjrage

That's because, when it comes right down to it, we could have afforded another couple bucks. Seriously, no matter what the item is worth, no matter what you think your "ABSOLUTELY NO MORE" amount is, I can't imagine many, if any, cases where another couple bucks is simply not possible. Therefore, we hate to lose by just a couple bucks.

I agree that's the feeling. But its not rational. You can extend the "couple more bucks" to infinity if you just go a couple of more bucks at a time. A bidder may end up going from $70 to $100, $5 at a time but if that same bidder saw his $70 bid beaten by a flat bid of $90 they would say "no way!".

The point is that your max bid is the maximum you're willing to go. It shouldn't matter if it's 1 penny more or $100 more. It's over your max bid. I think this is one of the main benefits of sniping. It helps people be better, objective bidders. You put in a max bid and that's it.

Originally Posted by Quick

That's not rational but I guess it's sort of human nature... You decide the abolute max you're willing to pay. You feel bad if you lose by a few dollars but you don't feel bad if you lose by a lot.

You see something you want and figure you'd be really happy to get it for $70.
You figure that maybe its worth $80 tops.
Then you think that you'd really like to have that so you put in a max bid of $85.
Then when you lose and it goes for $88 you think "Damn! I should have gone to $90"

Well, its not quite that elaborate, at least for me--I'm sure that there are prolly others that are like that. Its more like I see something I really want, and say 85$ is the most I want to pay for it, I'll put in a max bid for 95$. If I happen to lose by 1$ in this case it doesn't bother me. I suppose its the difference between the max that I want to pay vs the max that I'm willing to pay, and also the point where the purchase feels more like a bad decision (Man, I just got ripped off!) then an acquisition.

I stumbled on this conversation because I have a similar razor, in nearly new condition and still in its Buck & Ryan box. If anyone is prepared to splurge a ton on it then please let me know...otherwise I'm going to start shaving with it.


Buck & Ryan are still going by the way, and can be found at Southampton Row in London.