Gavelsnipe Question

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Whatever happened to good old fashioned bidding?? I know people try to win stuff as cheaply as possible, but what happened when a one of a kind item comes around and your 3 second snipe doesn't go as planned?? Then you are kicking yourself for missing out. Just a thought......

Old fashioned bidding was about to ruin my marriage

You make a good point, though. I recently won my Holy Grail and if that snipe had failed, I would have been very, very bummed. My next "must have" item may be manually bid on.....especially if it's on a Sunday night.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Old fashioned bidding was about to ruin my marriage

You make a good point, though. I recently won my Holy Grail and if that snipe had failed, I would have been very, very bummed. My next "must have" item may be manually bid on.....especially if it's on a Sunday night.

I have used Gavelsnipe for years and it has worked great 99.9% of the time. Since there is the .1% when something goes awry, if it is something I don't think I can live without I will put the snipe in as a backup.....and then let the adrenaline take over and manually bid.

[ALR-bishop]

Leon-- how many items have you come across on eBay that you could not live without ?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Leon-- how many items have you come across on eBay that you could not live without ?

A decade and a half ago there were tons of things on the bay that were great, though I guess technically I could live without any of them. Some of my favorite items came from ebay. This E221 Bishops Team card with Buck Weaver was sold on there by Mike Berkus, one of the founders of the National Sports Collectors Convention (RIP),( for those who might not know). There were many carfds of similar quality over the years. And nowadays with the big ebay players getting solid results on expensive items, it seems the bay's mojo has come back a little bit. It will never be the way it used to be, but is anything? This isn't mine anymore....

[Cozumeleno]

Wanted to update this since I believe I found the problem - and it wasn't my eBay password.

I changed my snipe time to bid from ten seconds left to 20 seconds. I looked at my settings and realized it said that bids placed within a time with less than 20 seconds left were not guaranteed to go through. I believed this threshold was previously ten seconds so that's what I had been using.

I set a few snipes on items I wanted but didn't particularly care about as a test after changing to 20 seconds and they all went through successfully. Hopefully that might help others having any problems as well.

[irv]

I am curious how this would work, if, just say for instance, those that have commented here in this post all used the same service and all used it to bid on a particular card they all wanted, who would win?

I assume the person who put the highest max $$ on would, but with the crazy amount of bids I sometimes see in the dying seconds of an auction, does the guy who was willing to bid the most always win?

[Stonepony]

If yours is the highest bid, and it exceeds Ebays bidding increment, you will win. That is provided the bid goes thru.