Failed Auction

shaun_from_Africa

aardvaak wrote: »

Seems to be very unfair and cheating

Why?
Sniping tools are available for anyone and everyone to use so unfair or cheating doesn't come into it.


You still don't seem to understand or acknowledge that the simple fact is that you didn't lose because of a sniping tool. You lost because someone was willing to pay more than you and even though it doesn't matter one iota, there is no way to know whether they used a sniping tool or entered their bid manually.

glentoran99

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Why?
Sniping tools are available for anyone and everyone to use so unfair or cheating doesn't come into it.


You still don't seem to understand or acknowledge that the simple fact is that you didn't lose because of a sniping tool. You lost because someone was willing to pay more than you and even though it doesn't matter one iota, there is no way to know whether they used a sniping tool or entered their bid manually.

or that someone simply did this

aardvaak wrote: »

I waited to the last minute to bid as

better than the OP

Hermione_Granger

aardvaak wrote: »

According to the email/message from ebay I was still winning till within the last minute.

Many football teams are winning in the last minute and still manage to lose the match.
As with football (and many other things in life), It's not the last minute that matters. It's who is winning when the time runs out that is important.

timbstoke

Sniping tools aren't cheating in the slightest. I don't use them myself, but I do sit watching the auction any place my bid as close to the close as possible - usually with less than 5 seconds to spare.

You placed a bid "in the last minute" but with "less than half an hour to spare" (both your quotes), and you only bid just above the minimum bid. What you've effectively done is wander into an auction room, place a single opening bid on something you liked the look of, then wandered off to the auction cafe for a cuppa. When you've come back into the room after the auction has finished, you're complaining because you didn't win.

The rule to live by for eBay auctions is: Bid once, and bid late. That means you bid the most you would possibly be prepared to pay for the item, and you do it as close to the end of the auction as possible.

For example: the last thing I bought on eBay was a tent. It was a specific model I'd been looking for, which I knew had been discontinued, and it was pure luck that I happened upon it. Current bid was £80, and like your auction, no bids so far. I knew this tent originally sold for £160. I also wanted this specific model and was prepared to pay for it. So even though I expected to get it for about £85, I bid £167.65. Why such a weird number? Well, my limit was £160, but I knew I'd be kicking myself if someone went £165 and stole it from me for the sake of a fiver. A strange number makes sure I outbid them even if they go an extra pound. If I'd been outbid, it would probably have been for over £170 and I wouldn't have felt so bad about losing it.

In the end someone else had the same idea, and it went up to £153 or so. I paid more than I'd hoped to pay, but I won. Nothing unfair about it, it's just the way an auction works.

pulliptears

As aardvaak is now PPR I can only presume he/she was a product of the school holidays.

shaun_from_Africa

pulliptears wrote: »

As aardvaak is now PPR I can only presume he/she was a product of the school holidays.

I think that there must be more to it than that seeing as they had been an MSE member for over 9 years.

pulliptears

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

I think that there must be more to it than that seeing as they had been an MSE member for over 9 years.

Oh yes, hadn't noticed that. Just odd then.

donnac2558

Down in the Discussion section they ranted and abused anyone who did not agree with their views, quite a lot. Last thread I read by them, they started accusing another poster who did not agree with them of having a drink problem!!! Karma is a !!!!!.;):D

KRDmum

Not much to add to the above said but I've just read this entire thread purely for the entertainment!:rotfl:

nortong

aardvaak wrote: »

How is that good?

Because you wont be hogging the centre of the road doing 25mph with a queue of traffic behind you trying to get home in time to put a bid on ebay for a caravan.

[Rinse & repeat]:eek: