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Another bid ... I'm attahere !
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I hate bidding wars - I use esnipe. My bid doesn't get entered and it keeps me from over-extending myself. I tend to set my max and let it go and not even look at the item until I see in my inbox I won or lost - *unless* it is one of those items where I'm willing to over-extend myself in "emergency situations only" 
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Kelly ... when I've reached my limit for the month, I still like to keep my feet in the water. I'll do my searchs and if I find a stamp with low initial bids that I would NORMALLY pay up to $300 for, I'll bid around $100. If I'm outbid, so be it. That way, I'm high bidder for several days, and I feel like I'm still in the game. Actually, I have picked up several surprise bargains that way.
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I'm with Kelly, I use esnipe for all my eBay bidding. CarlBerky, the bidding you posted is a classic example why.
You bid on 12-9 and and on 12-12 N**L came fishing at your bid. He bid three times, each time increasing his bid until he exposed your bid. Then he left satisfied, only to be outbid the next day!
You didn't show the end of auction, but I'll bet that the 12-13 bid was within minutes of auction end. Swoop! Done!
I set my esnipe bids to register with six seconds left in the auction. Doesn't matter if I'm at work or sleeping, the computer does my work. In my world N**L would've posted his first $91 bid and walked away satisfied he was high bidder, not knowing I was sitting there poised to take it away!
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Ben Franklin 1902, I hope you and Kelly don't ever esnipe the same stamp!
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Carl, here's some spirited bidding from today. Note that I put a box around all the activity in the last day of auction, within a minute of auction end.
End of bidding was 8:51:32 am
Most noted is that my bid was placed days ago on esnipe.com Bidder e***n was bidding manually. He was chipping at the existing high bid, with several small increment increases within the same minute. They were all playing in the $60 range. I swooped in via a snipe bid of $206 with 6 seconds to spare. My bid must've shown as high bid around $70, so I'm surprised ole e***n knew to bid a few hundred to expose my high bid 4 seconds later with 2 seconds to spare on the auction. I was surprised to see the results when I saw my email a few minutes ago!
Oh well, I bid more than I really wanted to pay anyway!
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Esniping sounds like a great way to ensure you win ... unless there's more then one esniper! Ebay must be delighted with the concept, because it ensures that there will be a bid higher then one of the sniper's maximum bid.
I make my bid at my maximum and let it go at that. Either I win, or it sells for more then I'm willing to pay.
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I don't like to get into bidding wars. Currently, I've been outbid but the image shows that I've been outbid by less than the normal required bid ($2.50). That means that the bid is a MAXIMUM bid, and if there are no other bids, I've got a chance to steal it.
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Another bid ... I'm attahere !
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re: An EBay bidding tip
I hate bidding wars - I use esnipe. My bid doesn't get entered and it keeps me from over-extending myself. I tend to set my max and let it go and not even look at the item until I see in my inbox I won or lost - *unless* it is one of those items where I'm willing to over-extend myself in "emergency situations only"
Kelly
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Kelly ... when I've reached my limit for the month, I still like to keep my feet in the water. I'll do my searchs and if I find a stamp with low initial bids that I would NORMALLY pay up to $300 for, I'll bid around $100. If I'm outbid, so be it. That way, I'm high bidder for several days, and I feel like I'm still in the game. Actually, I have picked up several surprise bargains that way.
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I'm with Kelly, I use esnipe for all my eBay bidding. CarlBerky, the bidding you posted is a classic example why.
You bid on 12-9 and and on 12-12 N**L came fishing at your bid. He bid three times, each time increasing his bid until he exposed your bid. Then he left satisfied, only to be outbid the next day!
You didn't show the end of auction, but I'll bet that the 12-13 bid was within minutes of auction end. Swoop! Done!
I set my esnipe bids to register with six seconds left in the auction. Doesn't matter if I'm at work or sleeping, the computer does my work. In my world N**L would've posted his first $91 bid and walked away satisfied he was high bidder, not knowing I was sitting there poised to take it away!
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Ben Franklin 1902, I hope you and Kelly don't ever esnipe the same stamp!
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Carl, here's some spirited bidding from today. Note that I put a box around all the activity in the last day of auction, within a minute of auction end.
End of bidding was 8:51:32 am
Most noted is that my bid was placed days ago on esnipe.com Bidder e***n was bidding manually. He was chipping at the existing high bid, with several small increment increases within the same minute. They were all playing in the $60 range. I swooped in via a snipe bid of $206 with 6 seconds to spare. My bid must've shown as high bid around $70, so I'm surprised ole e***n knew to bid a few hundred to expose my high bid 4 seconds later with 2 seconds to spare on the auction. I was surprised to see the results when I saw my email a few minutes ago!
Oh well, I bid more than I really wanted to pay anyway!
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Esniping sounds like a great way to ensure you win ... unless there's more then one esniper! Ebay must be delighted with the concept, because it ensures that there will be a bid higher then one of the sniper's maximum bid.
I make my bid at my maximum and let it go at that. Either I win, or it sells for more then I'm willing to pay.
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