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Re: Ebay sniper? you make the call
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lugnet.market.auction
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Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:18:19 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Scott Costello writes:
> It’s really not a big deal, but I was bidding on an item on Ebay and I was
> out bid, literally 3 seconds before the item closed. Is that even >possible?
> Was it just extraordinary luck that the winning bidder clicked submit just
> under the wire or was there something else afoot? I am just curious, I >have
> been sniped before, but never with 3 seconds remaining in an auction. >Anyone
> else have anything like this happen before? I am a pretty unlucky guy so >it
> could just be me.
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> Scott
Scott, this happens far more often than you'd think. I was teaching a new
computer user haw to use ebay yesterday and this exact situation happened.
She was shocked that an item could be sniped with only a second remaining in
the auction. I pointed out that I've done this with a second left (midnight
bidding war) and had it happen to me with five seconds remaining thereby
losing the most important of the five lots I'd been bidding on and making
the others virtually pointless.
Clicking submit with two seconds left is like a coin toss-either you made it
or you didn't.
-Dave
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| It’s really not a big deal, but I was bidding on an item on Ebay and I was out bid, literally 3 seconds before the item closed. Is that even possible? Was it just extraordinary luck that the winning bidder clicked submit just under the wire or was (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.market.auction)
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