sniped and failed

[globe at zipcon.net]

Some bidders use a service for which they pay $4.00 or so a month which enables
them to snip at the very last second a bid of a $1.00 over anyone else's bid.  I
seldom win an auction when I am not around to place bid myself.  Sometimes I am
suspicious of bids inthat I think the seller might be bidding so I look at bid
history.
 sorry you didn't get it, but there will be a another chance to spend $$$$$
Carolyn

Quoting Michael Eisenstadt <michaele at hotpop.com>:

> i am sharing these details because you might want to buy
> stuff on Ebay.
> 
> i sniped and failed, bidding $61.66 (at the last minute), 
> there were 3 of us sniping. The other bidder who failed
> bid $65. the winning bidder bid somewhere north of
> $66, say $80, but the Ebay system allows her to pay just
> $1 more than the top losing bid. 
> 
> using the "completed" command in Advanced Search,
> you can see what previous stuff went for.  
> 
> as Carolyn Garner pointed out, you have to watch out
> for excessive shipping cost from sleaseball sellers. 
> check the sellers' ratings closely and mefiez-vous as
> they say in Frog.
> 
> almost 100% of sellers accept credit card purchases
> through PayPal which was invented to suck off Ebay.
> Ebay finally bought PayPal and paid through the nose 
> for it, not having thought of it first. On the other hand,
> it was probably better for their image to buy PayPal
> rather than to start it up themselves.
> 
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