Darth_X wrote:
ami500 wrote:
I don't see what the problem is :-?
Only thing that's annoyed me before is when there is an item you are interested in, and there have been no other bids for the 5-8 days you've been keeping an eye on it, and then finally there is under a day to go, and you go back to the item to place a bid only to find they have extended it by another 9 days. 
Then you have to waste all those days waiting again.
What's worse is when you bid several hundred dollars (Euros, GBP, etc) on something that has been for sale for 9 days and in the last minute of the auction someone comes along and outbids you by $1!!
That sort of happened to me two days ago.
I was waiting for an auction on a 17" nec monitor to end and the seller had a -2 feedback, but I found out he lived close to me, so I could have picked it up.
So it's going along for several days, no bids, so I make a bid with just over a day to go. Then I find someone outbids me, ok, fair enough, it was only at 50AUD then, so I decide to wait, in the meantime, someone else brought it up to 56AUD, so that's still fine. I then keep waiting.... 40 seconds to go, I proxy 61AUD, fine, it's in the bag. Then I refresh the auction and it's ended with some c&%t beating me by 50cents. F F F F F F F Fark!
So I check out the bidding, and found he put it in with just 3 seconds to go. I figure he must have proxied some high amount to beat me so quickly. I still wonder how these people get in with so little time to go. I'm on 512k adsl and the page was taking at least 5 seconds to load for me each time I refreshed, Plus for some reason, I have to keep wasting time putting my password back in. Geez that's a pain in the arse. These people must be getting lower latencies than me somehow and don't keep getting their passwords cleared.
Damn I could have used that monitor though. I've been stuck with 15" screens for too many years now.
