Thread: EBAY IDIOT

I am still recovering from what has just happened.
I was bidding for strai8 on EVILBAY last 30 seconds i thought what the hell i'll put a max bid of £200 the next thing i know someeone also put a high bid on of £100... ya know what i have just bought a £10 (tops!) for well over £100 and i feel sick....
i don't mind telling you all this...
has any1 else been foolish?

i wouldnt mind but it needs the scales and pins replaced lol
if my wife asks i will say it is one of the most expensive razors in the world and beelonged to some famous film star!!!

can you post the link
NO if wife asks admit it say i was an idiot in my life ones that is it no more .
i have done it at least couple times more then you do.

there is a cases you could end up ebay genius too. don't go down on your self

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.

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.

I've got to see this! What possessed you to go that high on a razor you'd rate at £10?
There may be a good reason the other guy did go that high. You may have stumbled across something special! As Bud said, could be genius?

Nope, I've never done that. I only bid what I am willing to pay. There are a lot of 'silly' people out there that may do what you did.

I definitely do crazy/stupid things "in the heat of the moment" on ebay, but I try to limit myself to only a few dollars more than I'm willing to spend on the item.

It almost sounds like someone had the same mindset as you... basically put in a really high amount because, in theory, you don't care what the next guy put in for a bid, you just assume it was a reasonable amount, and you want your bid to cover his reasonable amount by just a tad, therefore making you the winner by covering the other guy's reasonable amount by the auction increase minimum. I'm assuming this is why you put your very high bid in, and evidently someone else had the same mindset! Oh well, lesson learned! Definitely never ever put in more than you are willing to spend on the item, under any circumstances. On the one hand, you're kind of lucky that the other guy didn't have the exact same mindset as you and put in a £200 bid also, making you the winner for £200!!

Anyway, if it's a nice blade in good condition, don't beat yourself up. Fix up the scales yourself or send them to one of the great people on the forum, tell them what happened and perhaps you'll cut you a small break? Either way, at this point, you might as well sink a little bit more into it and make it one of your nicest razors. Maybe that will lessen the pain?

Originally Posted by manxnorton

I am still recovering from what has just happened.
I was bidding for strai8 on EVILBAY last 30 seconds i thought what the hell i'll put a max bid of £200 the next thing i know someeone also put a high bid on of £100... ya know what i have just bought a £10 (tops!) for well over £100 and i feel sick....
i don't mind telling you all this...
has any1 else been foolish?

i wouldnt mind but it needs the scales and pins replaced lol
if my wife asks i will say it is one of the most expensive razors in the world and beelonged to some famous film star!!!

why a max bid of 200?!?!? Only bid what you are comfortable spending.