I definitely need to work on my discipline and patience….but I’ve not got the patience nor discipline for that.
Who Sniped My Pipe?!
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It wasn't me, brother. I am getting closer to adding to my quite modest stable of pipes but I'm cheap and will need a couple more weeks to talk myself into it. Maybe until Christmas lol.
The people that do this deserve to step on Legos every night for a month
It's just bidding at an auction, no rules to when bids can be placed. Many times it's a bot placed by a bidder. No one can lay claim to an auction lot until the last, highest bid.
Yes I'm aware of the actualities of it, I'm just bitter because i've had it happen twice to me in the past month ;-)
I watch for trends during the auction. Number of bidders, frequency and cost of bids, and how heated the bids are. If it looks like a bidding war is starting to happen I walk away. If not, I drop my maximum bid at the 4 seconds remaining mark.
My experience with online auction style sites is generally this:
Put on a watchlist excitedly a few days out from end of auction.
Make time to put a bid in at the end of the auction.
Get distracted by one of my kids at the last minute.
SOLD! But never to me.
It is the cheapest way to bid though.
Put on a watchlist excitedly a few days out from end of auction.
Make time to put a bid in at the end of the auction.
Get distracted by one of my kids at the last minute.
SOLD! But never to me.
It is the cheapest way to bid though.
Remember when eBay did a ten or fifteen minute extension on last second bids, or am I smoking crack?
And I hate sniping bots….
I usually put down a bid for the maximum amount I am willing to pay. If I get it, great. If not I just figure someone wanted it more than I did.
I Did NOT SNIPE IT IN A HOUSE.
I DID NOT SNIPE IT WITH A MOUSE.
I DID NOT SNIPE IT HERE OR THERE.
I DID NOT LIKE IT ANYWHERE.
I DID NOT SNIPE YOUR PIPE DEAR PIKER.
I DID NOT SNIPE IT, @Sobrbiker
I DID NOT SNIPE IT WITH A MOUSE.
I DID NOT SNIPE IT HERE OR THERE.
I DID NOT LIKE IT ANYWHERE.
I DID NOT SNIPE YOUR PIPE DEAR PIKER.
I DID NOT SNIPE IT, @Sobrbiker
I don't even bother with bidding. I just look at buy now options. I save my bidding for DraftKings.
I’m currently bidding on a pipe, and I very much intend to win it. But I placed a pretty competitive bid, one and done. Well I checked it a few minutes ago and another bidder had bid 20 times in about 3 minutes, each bid $1 higher than the last and each time they were automatically out bid by my bid. I’m not sure what the strategy is here, other than probing for the high bid so they can bid one more dollar?
I’m currently bidding on a pipe, and I very much intend to win it. But I placed a pretty competitive bid, one and done. Well I checked it a few minutes ago and another bidder had bid 20 times in about 3 minutes, each bid $1 higher than the last and each time they were automatically out bid by my bid. I’m not sure what the strategy is here, other than probing for the high bid so they can bid one more dollar?
That’s partly why I adopted sniping more than twenty years ago—I didn’t like having a sitting duck bid that people could nickel and dime up trying to find my max. I found it often saved me money not showing my hand early. Another nice thing was a snipe prevented a counter bid—you still had to have the highest bid to win, but you at least could prevent someone trying to pop another bid in the last second or two against your bid at the auction’s close.
Sniping software changed my social life back in those early days. No more missing out on getting together with friends because a rare book auction was ending that night and I had to be home on my dial up connection to bid in the last few seconds or less. No longer did I have to sit at home with two browsers open, one refreshing to see the clock count down while counting how long it took to refresh the page, the other window with the bid ready to go, taking into account how long it would take bid to go in based on the refresh time before the clock hit zero. I don’t miss those days. I pick an amount I’m willing to pay and hope for the best. All my snipe does is prevent a counter bid. Over the years, I’ve lost by a single cent or even 0 (a matching bid that was entered before my snipe). If I lost, it just meant someone was willing to pay more—fair enough.
Yeah I get it, just not my style. I've used sniping software in the past. Honestly I don't really care that much. They're just pipes. If someone outbids me, they out bid me, oh well. If it's something I REALLY want my initial bid will reflect that. I won't watch an auction in the last few minutes, my phone will notify me if I won. I have far to many pipes to care about losing out on one.
