Good god. I've never really had an interest in sabre replicas but after reading this thread, I'm minded to find and convert a Graflex just out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
Ok who sniped me!!
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Good god. I've never really had an interest in sabre replicas but after reading this thread, I'm minded to find and convert a Graflex just out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
Capn_Jack_Savvy
Sr Member
Great comment in the description:
"I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS UNIT SO PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS."
Question 1 - So what do you know about this Graflex unit?
"I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS UNIT SO PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS."
Question 1 - So what do you know about this Graflex unit?
Qui-Gonzalez
Master Member
It says it right on the clamp...kinda hard to miss.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Sniping means that you are not driving up the price days, hours or minutes in advance. By adding your max bid just seconds before the close of the auction you may win the item cheaper than if you had bid normally, where there is time to top your bid before things close.
I don't use any software to do my bidding or sniping. If I want something, I'm on the computer and going after it when the auction is closing. If it's at a time I'm not home or sleeping... then no big loss... a similar item will undoubtedly pop up again, so no need to go too far.
I snipe but i also do it myself. I get a serious adreneline rush waiting for that last 3-5 secs to bid. I figure out how much i am willing to pay and i bid it 3-5 secs from the end. If i don't get it, it is because someone else wants it more than me.
Ahhh...the thrill of the snipe. That's the only reason I really do it, for fun. If I really want it, I just put in my max bid and forget about it.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
But you are less likely to get it and cheaper when doing it like that.
propologist
Sr Member
I use to snipe all the time with Esnipe first came out years ago. But these days everything you can bid on will be listed the same week. Nothing is truly rare anymore with ebay. Of course back then sniping was free to do.
It is good if it's a late night auction and you don't want to stay up and watch it.
It is good if it's a late night auction and you don't want to stay up and watch it.
SUPERprops
Sr Member
wow! this one sold for around $90.00 and there is a reproduction with 19 bids at $100.77 with 3 days left, doesn't really make since(just people biding early).
exoray
Master Member
The timing, if you put your max bid in on the first day of a 7 day auction there are 7 full days for people to join in and fight you for it and drive up the bid... Put your max bid in at 3 seconds and by the time they refresh the page they lost... No time for them to join the fight unless they were already in the game...
SUPERprops
Sr Member
Ya but you also have to watch out for other people doing this same thing.
rkpetersen
Sr Member
Bidding on ebay is pretty similar to the way I always imagined a space battle between ships traveling at relativisitic velocities would actually go. Lots of maneuvering and posturing by smaller craft for days or hours beforehand, but the actual exchange of deadly fire between dreadnoughts would only take place over a few seconds (or microseconds), and be controlled by computers.
Here's another way to think about sniping: Most serious bidders with years of experience who buy a lot off the bay snipe routinely. Most long-term ebay sellers hate sniping. As a buyer, what does this tell you?
Here's another way to think about sniping: Most serious bidders with years of experience who buy a lot off the bay snipe routinely. Most long-term ebay sellers hate sniping. As a buyer, what does this tell you?
Zombie_61
Master Member
Oh, absolutely. I've been out-sniped by other snipers several times. It's all part of the game.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
That's why I don't even bother selling anything with more than a 3 day auction. You log in day after day seeing the one guy with a $12.00 bid, just to wait for the last 5 minutes of a seven day auction go crazy!
SUPERprops
Sr Member
Ok, anyone care to share the size of the so called "bubble card"? I'm thinking of making one tonight.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Sellers hate snipers because sniping means they sometimes have to sell cheaper than they want. Some are honorable and follow through, others are cowards and find some excuse to back out.
I don't recall, but do you pay less for a 3 day auction than a 7 day auction? If it is the same amount, I'd go for 7 day auction just to up the potential of more people spotting the auction before it's over.
Gigatron
Sr Member
I'm more apt to snipe because bidding early does nothing more than drive up the price to beyond what it's actually worth.
For instance, lately, I've been tracking down a lot of older model kits for a project I'm working on. The kits aren't particularly rare, but for some odd reason, very popular. I've been bidding on a 1986 Revell 1/32 Bell X-1. At any given time, there are at least a half dozen on ebay with typical starting prices of about $9 and ending prices between $18 and $22. If people didn't start bidding on day one, they could probably get the kit for the starting price, but the "gotta win it at any cost" attitude forces people to get into bidding wars.
I finally found one that started at $5 and bid with a minute left. I put in a max bid of $12.50, just to cover myself and lo and behold, it ended up closing at $7. Somebody tried to snipe me with a few seconds left and assumed I only bid the absolute minimum.
Sniping is the only way to go on ebay, even if you're the only bidder on the item - especially if the seller uses a shill bidder to drive up the prices.
-Fred
For instance, lately, I've been tracking down a lot of older model kits for a project I'm working on. The kits aren't particularly rare, but for some odd reason, very popular. I've been bidding on a 1986 Revell 1/32 Bell X-1. At any given time, there are at least a half dozen on ebay with typical starting prices of about $9 and ending prices between $18 and $22. If people didn't start bidding on day one, they could probably get the kit for the starting price, but the "gotta win it at any cost" attitude forces people to get into bidding wars.
I finally found one that started at $5 and bid with a minute left. I put in a max bid of $12.50, just to cover myself and lo and behold, it ended up closing at $7. Somebody tried to snipe me with a few seconds left and assumed I only bid the absolute minimum.
Sniping is the only way to go on ebay, even if you're the only bidder on the item - especially if the seller uses a shill bidder to drive up the prices.
-Fred
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