Thread: another charnley winner...

I've loose this stone for only 2 Pounds. I don't use snipe program and I've not idea what is this, I'm a sniper without program.

Well buddy, check the price of finishers, folks feel like they are worth _____ (insert price here)...I wouldn't take 4 times that winning amount for my charnley...what I am getting at is that we all have different budgets and different ideas on what is "high" on a ebay item.

Don't be a sore looser...sniping isn't what drove up that price, it's bidders. I personally feel that sniping actually keeps prices lower.

Bid the highest price you are willing to pay, and don't complain. If I'm willing to pay $100,000 for a rock, then that is my max bid. If I put it in 20 days ahead of time and 50 people do the same, it bids up at the end. There is no sniping. It is auto bid.

A true sniper chooses an amount he's willing to pay for it and sticks to it. An emotional bidder doesn't have a max amount, but chooses an amount based on the current highest bid. So if the emotional bidder knew how much the sniper was bidding he would be willing to pay more.

Take the CF I won last for example. It wasn't an obvious one but I was pretty sure about it so I had put in a good bid at Gixen. I was either getting it for what it was worth (to me) or cheaper, beating anyone with doubt.

There were 8 bids before me, all very low, but if I had bid early and these bidders would have noticed their small bids didn't give them the winning bid they would have tried to increase their bids. They would have started thinking they're bidding on a mystery stone but then realized that apparently someone thought it was valuable and put in bids worthy of a good stone and maybe even realized that it was a CF.

I'm sure that sniping saved me at least GBP40 on that stone.