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Goofbay

Anyone else having problems with Goofbay? Twice now I have lost items - the reason given was "eBay page not responding". The first time I thought fine, not their fault - but twice in a row? :confused:

Very hacked off, especially as my bids would have won the item both times. :mad:
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  • durham_girl
    durham_girl Posts: 2,715 Forumite
    Not that I know of, but I'm watching an auction that ends in 15 mins which I've set a snipe on, so I'll let you know how it goes!
    :j30/7/10:j

    :j24/1/14 :j
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    How weird - the item I lost out on was relisted straight away with a Buy It Now price of £37, despite selling for £35. Why would that be?
  • durham_girl
    durham_girl Posts: 2,715 Forumite
    That does sound a bit strange....maybe they had more than one of the item and thought as it reached £35 in auction someone might pay slightly more on BIN.

    My snipe worked and I won the item :D
    :j30/7/10:j

    :j24/1/14 :j
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    Well done! Maybe it's just my PC, in that case! Anyway I bought mine for the Buy it Now price, so all's well that ends well.
  • alison999
    alison999 Posts: 1,769 Forumite
    i had a problem with the timer once - it said it had 20 secs left so i went to bid and found the item had ended! and my computer isnt slow at all
  • I tried several sniping sites and snipegoods dot com works well for me. Give that a shot.
  • DaveAshton
    DaveAshton Posts: 7,851 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    edited 15 August 2009 at 7:46PM
    Threads like this really !!!! me off. People will use a service for ages without a problem and not praise it, but as soon as it goes wrong they slate it. I bet they'll keep using it though :rolleyes:

    Sniping tools are just the wuss's option anyway, if you're going to snipe, have the balls to do it manually. I can usually get a bid onto an item inside 4 seconds of it ending without needing to resort to proxy methods :p

    ETA
    geri1965 wrote: »
    Very hacked off, especially as my bids would have won the item both times. :mad:
    How do you know? Just because the sale price was, say £10, doesn't mean the winner hadn't bid £20. So if you'd sniped at £19, you wouldn't have won it. You may think you would have won, seeing the sale price, but thinking something and it being right are very different things.
    Back on MSE after a 5 year hiatus.

    :heart2: Rhi :heart2:
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    DaveAshton wrote: »

    Sniping tools are just the wuss's option anyway, if you're going to snipe, have the balls to do it manually. I can usually get a bid onto an item inside 4 seconds of it ending without needing to resort to proxy methods :p

    You may have all day to hang around eBay waiting for auctions to finish, but I have to work sometimes!
  • DaveAshton
    DaveAshton Posts: 7,851 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    geri1965 wrote: »
    You may have all day to hang around eBay waiting for auctions to finish, but I have to work sometimes!
    My job's ebay based, so I work by hanging around ebay all day :p
    Back on MSE after a 5 year hiatus.

    :heart2: Rhi :heart2:
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    Do you work for Goofbay by any chance?
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