The Official "I didn't win it on Ebay" Moral Support Thread

[runequester]

If we can do general ebay griping:
 
Stupid high Buy it now prices
 
Sellers that offer 50 different issues of an amiga magazine... individually, buy it now for 15 bucks a pop.
 
Overcharging for shipping
 
Terrible or stock photos of hardware that is untested.

[Iggy]

It's not so much sniping as trying to get the best deal. I've sniped and I have been sniped. The main reason I get sniped is when I am on the fence on something. When I know I have to have it I put a damn big number down and not even watch the auction. If that was my limit that's my limit. Putting a smaller bid down just means you were less committed to buying the item. Can it suck? Oh heck yeah and I think this thread is a great idea because I know I always want to vent when I get sniped.

Has anyone else had the opposite experience? I have on at least three or four occasions bid on something and then realized I bid further than I should have and was praying up to the last minute for a snipe. Those were moments I was happy sniping existed

The other thing I have been noticing recently is the bidding wars to be the "biggest loser". It's when an item has a reserve that is way to high and people are trying to be the largest bid but still under the reserve. The hope is to get a second chance offer at the last bid you did. I have won three auctions in this way. This last one was like an insane snipefest so it seems we were all trying to be the last highest bid. Anyone else ever experience this?

Yeah, I don't even usually bid on items with a reserve. Its a complete guessing game and even if you bid high there has to be enough people bidding against you to drive the bids over the reserve.
I've managed to get some good deals on ebay, but not a one of them had a reserve price.

[runequester]

Reserves are indeed a pain.

[fitzsteve]

I was bidding on a bunch of AmigaCD/PPC (Wipeout/Quake/Shogo/Payback/etc games from a German ebay seller tonight, got outbid on the lot.

If the buyer/s is/are reading, I hate you!!!!:roflmao:

[Tension]

It is a shame that so much Amiga stuff ends up on eBay, rather than AmiBay.

But there is nothing that can be done about that.  Can't blame people for wanting to get as much as they can for an item in this 'Age of austerity'.

[runequester]

It is a shame that so much Amiga stuff ends up on eBay, rather than AmiBay.
 
But there is nothing that can be done about that. Can't blame people for wanting to get as much as they can for an item in this 'Age of austerity'.

I thought it was the age of credit card debt

[Tension]

I thought it was the age of credit card debt

Don't get me started on economics ffs LOL

[AltRN8]

Speaking of the economy, I have noticed that for those of us not broke the prices are dropping on tons of collectible items. Old computer hardware that was going for $1000 a few years back i see going for half of that now.

That being said apparently there are lots of Amiga people good with money because I have not seen any ppc accelerators drop in price (though I have seen a bunch for sale recently).

Either that or we all are just willing to buy ourselves into massive debt to support our habit.