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Ebay purchase.

Larry G

Larry G

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I'm in the market for a different center section for my Mustang and have been searching Craigslist and EBay. I really don't like dealing with EBay but a lot of times they have what your looking for. Well I found what I was wanting (9" traction lok, 3.00, 28 spline) for a good starting price, no reserve, highest bid gets it. I waited till the last hour of the bidding and placed my bid, which I had to increase a couple of times because of automatic bids, I had it won :yah, until 4 seconds before bidding ended and I was out bid :censored by 5 bucks. I wrote it off as inexperience with EBay, better luck next time.
A couple hours (2hr 20min.) later I was checking for substatutes and low and behold, there was the same item I bid on says seller re-listed item. :confu The old/new item was re-listed exactly the same except for EBay's #. I contacted the seller about it :wtf and his response was he had more then one. I realize that he could have more then one of that item but it looks pretty strange to me.
What do you think?
 
Probably he logs in under another user and sets a amount to get his price he wants for that unit.
In fact its a scamm IMO.
 
Re: Re: Ebay purchase.

"B67FSTB" said:
Probably he logs in under another user and sets a amount to get his price he wants for that unit.
In fact its a scamm IMO.
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You were outbid at 4 seconds to go, by exactly the bid increment ($5) at the price range I would assume a chunk would run.

I'd say it was an auction sniper - something like Auction Stealer, which I use all the time. Set the max you are willing to pay for the item, and 10 seconds or so before it ends, it log in to Ebay and places the bid for you. For an extra fee, they will do it at 5 seconds. I love it, because I don't have to be around to bid at the last second - and it stops you from falling prey to the last second emotional bid above what you really think it's worth.

http://www.auctionstealer.com/home.cfm

FWIW, I've seen the same type of relisting, using the exact same picture after I've won items, so it is plausible. One guy I bought from had 20 sets of takeout roller rockers, and sold them after the other all under the same pic.
 
"apollard" said:
You were outbid at 4 seconds to go, by exactly the bid increment ($5) at the price range I would assume a chunk would run.

I'd say it was an auction sniper - something like Auction Stealer, which I use all the time. Set the max you are willing to pay for the item, and 10 seconds or so before it ends, it log in to Ebay and places the bid for you. For an extra fee, they will do it at 5 seconds. I love it, because I don't have to be around to bid at the last second - and it stops you from falling prey to the last second emotional bid above what you really think it's worth.

http://www.auctionstealer.com/home.cfm

FWIW, I've seen the same type of relisting, using the exact same picture after I've won items, so it is plausible. One guy I bought from had 20 sets of takeout roller rockers, and sold them after the other all under the same pic.
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+1 I use sniping all the time, if you can't beat 'em then join 'em! I use www.biddingscheduler.com, but they all work the same. This also prevents me from bidding more than I want to spend, which with last minute bid increases and getting caught in the moment often ends up paying way more than I really wanted.
 
"buening" said:
+1 I use sniping all the time, if you can't beat 'em then join 'em! I use www.biddingscheduler.com, but they all work the same. This also prevents me from bidding more than I want to spend, which with last minute bid increases and getting caught in the moment often ends up paying way more than I really wanted.
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+2. Bottom line is if I don't snipe, I don't win (in most cases). Many many times if I've bid early, I've been outbid by one bid increment or less by someone who sits there and nickel and dimes it until he's the high bidder. I use esnipe.com.

Frank
 
"crustycurmudgeon" said:
+2. Bottom line is if I don't snipe, I don't win (in most cases). Many many times if I've bid early, I've been outbid by one bid increment or less by someone who sits there and nickel and dimes it until he's the high bidder. I use esnipe.com.

Frank
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+ 3 I snipe almost everything now. Don't bid until I snipe if I really want it.
 
Bidding before the end only gives the seller an opportunity to have schill bidders hit the item to run the bid up. This happened to me when I was hunting 18 inch magnums for the 08.

I bid too early and set my max too high. I retracted my high bid and and set it 5 bucks more than the current bid and sure enough they bumped it again. My high bid went in and they bid it up again only this time they owned it.

I wound up buying a set from the guy that runs RPM for less money with KDWs already mounted.

Snipe or don't bid at all.
 
Thanks for All the replies, and for the bidding sites. I signed up for "esnipes" it sounds like a good way to win a bid but it's not a guarantee either. I'll try it though.
I did report the seller of the item to Ebay but that won't change a thing. That's OK though, I'll win something in the long run. :thu

Thanks again
 
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