arrr I Hate ****ing Snipers!
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arrr I Hate ****ing Snipers!
Damnit, I swear I hate ebay, some asshole out bids me by 2 bucks grrr. These people should be shot. Damn 10 new bots for my collection had I won grr want to kick someones ass. Oh well.
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Re: arrr I Hate ****ing Snipers!
Calm down! Sniping is really the only way to be sure you win the items you want.Originally posted by Ravage
Damnit, I swear I hate ebay, some asshole out bids me by 2 bucks grrr. These people should be shot. Damn 10 new bots for my collection had I won grr want to kick someones ass. Oh well.
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Yeah but losing an auction with 2 seconds left and no way to counter bid *I bid yesturday and watched the auction throughout the day* is BS. I think ebay should have a way to let the second highest bidder counter bid rather than screwing them like that.
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At the end of the day its an auction. I'd be really pissed off too, but I bet if you managed to win an auction like that you'd be pleased.Originally posted by Ravage
Yeah but losing an auction with 2 seconds left and no way to counter bid *I bid yesturday and watched the auction throughout the day* is BS. I think ebay should have a way to let the second highest bidder counter bid rather than screwing them like that.
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Not really as I don't tend to snipe, I have this thing called a life like many other people do so I can't sit in front of a PC and try to won auctions I want like that. So instead I will put a fair sum of money on the auction and let it fly and lose. Just annoys me when they bid with 2 ****ing seconds. Wow spend 2.50 more to win grr. Oh well to the bar.
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Well, the truth is, you HAVE to be around at the end of an auction, whether you really want to or not. If you really want the item, be there at the end and be prepared for snipers. It may sucketh much ass, but it's the way of things.
Oh, and Galvatron84, I don't know who that guy in your sigpic is, but I sure as f*ck want to kick him in the face if only to improve it...
Oh, and Galvatron84, I don't know who that guy in your sigpic is, but I sure as f*ck want to kick him in the face if only to improve it...
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Well if you stop to think about for 2 seconds more money. Think about it the heavyier auctions get a lot higher in terms of money needed to take the top spot. Ebay get's 10% of that hell even an extra .25 cents per auction is not goint to hurt the company any.
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Originally posted by Ravage
Not really as I don't tend to snipe, I have this thing called a life like many other people do so I can't sit in front of a PC and try to won auctions I want like that.
Someone with a busy life sure had enough time to sit at the end of the Auction.Originally posted by Ravage The thing is I was there and I still lost.
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He's a lying sack of sh*t that is ass raping Leeds United.Oh, and Galvatron84, I don't know who that guy in your sigpic is, but I sure as f*ck want to kick him in the face if only to improve it...
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Back to the topic at hand:
Here is an intresting story that happen to me once I was bidding on a Big Convoy when I saw for $10.00 a Stampy that had 45 minutes left on it and no one had bid on it so I bid at the 45 minutes and won and got it now no had bid on it and I won it did
I snipe it?
As to G91's sig pic Sir Auros is right he really does looks like a rat
with that big nose he's got!
Here is an intresting story that happen to me once I was bidding on a Big Convoy when I saw for $10.00 a Stampy that had 45 minutes left on it and no one had bid on it so I bid at the 45 minutes and won and got it now no had bid on it and I won it did
I snipe it?
As to G91's sig pic Sir Auros is right he really does looks like a rat
with that big nose he's got!
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Back to the topic at hand:
Here is an intresting story that happen to me once I was bidding on a Big Convoy when I saw for $10.00 a Stampy that had 45 minutes left on it and no one had bid on it so I bid at the 45 minutes and won and got it now no had bid on it and I won it did
I snipe it?
If I translate this right, you mean you bid with those 45 minutes remaining, no one else came along to outbid you, and you won the auction without sniping.
Okay, is there some life lesson here? So you won without sniping. Is it possible that happened because...oh, I don't know...no one was really interested in that Stampy, at the time? That happens too. Doesn't mean you don't have to snipe--just not that one time.
The idea of giving the second bidder a chance to counterbid is dumb. Ebay is not designed that way, and it shouldn't be changed. If YOU as the second-place bidder gets another chance, then HE should have a chance to counterbid YOUR bid, and so on until one side gives up.
Now think of this. More money for Ebay you say? Consider, you were too busy trying to outbid the other guy that you didn't realize you paid more than you really wanted to, and want to bow out. Now, everyone loses, especially the seller. Hell, people do that even during the normal time frame (overbid trying to beat out the other guy) Now you want to create a rule that just BEGS for that to happen?
And you can't really say "No, but just let the second bidder get one chance and that's it." That's completely unfair. Nothing is unfair about the sniper bidding with 2 seconds, because you can chose to do it too. It just sucks if you've already bid.
I snipe, all the time. A lot of the times though, I have to be at work and so I bid and hope for the best. I often lose this way, but sometimes I've been lucky. Thing is, I except this as part of the system, and the rules. You don't like the rules, get off Ebay and buy it from some online store, where if they have it, you're garaunteed to get it.
Sorry, but too many people complain about snipers. In regards to them bidding last second or giving you--the second bidder--another chance? They're right, you're not. They won, you didn't. Too bad and try again. Or go away.
Actually I'm G84. Also, its nice to see that people who don't even know who Peter Ridsdale is hate the prick! Oh, and I agree with everything Pun-3X said.As to G91's sig pic Sir Auros is right he really does looks like a rat
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