auction snipe did not take

if you won this id like to buy the koi nuks....member win?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WW2-Japanese-Sa ... 7675.l2557

Did you use the Ebay 1 click bid option Stephen ?

Works like a charm for me.

KM

Read the title. He was sniping (as do most serious bidders)

eBay's bid system is not a snipe, and therefore only costs you more. Please stay on topic.

Brian

Hey Brian.

What is the difference between a set snipe with some sniping agent or program and a manual "snipe" using 1 click bid in which you set a ridiculously high or your final max bid (and nothing more than that) in the last 5 seconds after which you might use 1 click to enhance your bid with small increments if necessary ?

With that I mean that you can enter your max bid in the 1 click bid function and in the last 5 seconds click on it.

My max bid always is my max bid full stop. If I want to pay no more than a certain amount for any item, I will not.

Not even 0.50 cents over the end price will do for me.

Consider being in a casino. Would you keep spending on a winning streak ? Or keep spending on a losing streak ?

I would not. One set amount, thats it. If it is gone, pity.

Same with ebay. If I lose out on an item, pity, there will be other similar items appearing. Maybe even better priced.

You might have a different opinion about that, but then tell me the difference please.

KM

Sniping is used so that you don't have to sit there 5 seconds before the end and click a button and pray your internet connection is working at that split second and your timezone is favourable to the lister.

Bidding early is for people who don't really care what they pay for stuff. Sniping wins items for less...proven.

But we have been down this road before, so hopefully we don't have to rehash this all again.

Brian

I increased my total three hours before end which I think was my demise, ebay sent a reason for fail but it wont open up as code refreshes' to start again.

you can bet ill baby set any auction I really care about, damn sure wanted them large nuks to go with personal long large sword im putting together ....fittings in....lol....backwards yes!

I have found in life not winning something is for a reason, as something better comes along, and leaves one a bit more satisfied. Sometimes

I have found in life not winning something is for a reason, as something better comes along, and leaves one a bit more satisfied. Sometimes

You'd think, yet the early Shinto mumei Katana I bid on last week with an estimate of £200-300 and went for £5000 that was clearly a masterpiece says otherwise

Never mind.

KM

Shout out to MIlton Ong who taught me about sniping. I miss Milt's comments and sense of humour. Our loss is the army's gain.

Barry,

I really don't know what is doing Bungo but he carries on teasing us on Facebook by showing pictures of his dayly main courses taken in all the most famous European cities (I am on diet, I have just given up eating bread with my noodles )

BTW, I got my best tsuba from him

ive had issues with sniping too, i think im in the win and boom fail. I was bidding on woodblock prints and literally same thing, it didn't work and the person beat me by .50 needless to say i was pissed

If it's something I really want, I put in a snipe bid at maybe 5% more than I really want to pay, knowing that in most cases in which I win, I won't be jammed up to my max. This way, if I'm outbid, I can relax with the knowledge that the "winner" overpaid. The real reason for snipe bids is to not accommodate a "chiseler". This is a person, often a Fleabay neophyte, who treats the on-line venue as a typical live auction (it is not, a live auction is primarily bid limited, Fleabay is primarily time limited). He or she does not enter his/her max proxy bid and leaves it at that. No, the chiseler enters a bid a bit higher than the showing top bid, and if not successful, enters a yet marginally higher bid, and repeats again and again until successful or out of gas (or time). Once showing as the current successful top bid, the chiseler will quit, until outbid, in which case he/she will crank up again. A late snipe bid by another party does not allow him/her the time to chisel away.