I am really starting to hate E-Bay

**auld argonian** · 11th March 08, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Maclachlan

The trick is to bid the most you are willing to pay for the item and step back. Ebay will automatically bid to that price for you. To go more than you wanted just to get the buy will lead to even more frustration. Best advice is to just keep trying!

I have a friend who has been very successful on ebay as both a buyer and a seller and that is exactly the advice that he gave me...and it has proven to be the best advice ever.

Best

AA

**David Thornton** · 11th March 08, 01:55 PM

I had decided to get a Spyderco Sharpmaker & eBay always has several. So I watched for a month, placed my max bid several times and watched the bids roll in & over mine. I had an email from eBay warning that I was about to miss another item so I clicked in just t o see where the bid was, $48 and climbing. About half way down the page was a new buy it now sharpmaker for $36! So I lost and I won.

Just keep watching

David

**ChattanCat** · 11th March 08, 03:48 PM

Here's a tip: Don't expect to win. Be excited when you do!

**ccga3359** · 11th March 08, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by Kilted in Maine

ARRRHHH - I got sniped by BEEDEE!!!!

I really wanted that Sterling Silver Dagger Pin

BEEDEE stole my kilt check as well!

**BEEDEE** · 11th March 08, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

BEEDEE stole my kilt check as well!

Grant -
Coming from such a small nation, we New Zealander's have to excel at something. And we find it hard to be modest, as well.

Brian

**Frank McGrath** · 11th March 08, 07:03 PM

I have been selling stuff on Ebay for two years. I have paid for my last kilt and a jacket and vest from selling. Keep buying. Bid High and bid often. Frank

**Kilted in Maine** · 12th March 08, 06:24 AM

I least I know the pin went to a fellow x-marker and it will be well used rather than go to a re-seller.

A few months ago I was watching a sgian dubh being sold as part of an estate sale. It eventually went beyond what I was willing to pay. I saw it again a few weeks later posted by an e-bay knife shop. Both the knife and the description were a little embellished, but it was the same. I checked and the buyer did become the seller.

**Riverkilt** · 12th March 08, 09:37 PM

A lady friend of mine always says, "Rejection is God's protection." It wasn't supposed to be.

At the post office this morning a guy was waiting to see the postmaster. he had a battered package in his hand...very battered...because the cardboard it was shipped in was very thin. He was grumbling, "I paid $100 for this on ebay!"

Seems like every time I decide maybe to 'try' ebay I run into something like that to remind me to just forget it.

Ron

**BEEDEE** · 13th March 08, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

A lady friend of mine always says, "Rejection is God's protection." It wasn't supposed to be.

At the post office this morning a guy was waiting to see the postmaster. he had a battered package in his hand...very battered...because the cardboard it was shipped in was very thin. He was grumbling, "I paid $100 for this on ebay!"

Seems like every time I decide maybe to 'try' ebay I run into something like that to remind me to just forget it.

Ron

Ron - on the flip side, in the past year I have managed to find a 19th century Edinburgh hallmarked silver kilt pin, an autographed copy of District Tartans, along with a Prince Charles Edward Stewart kilt, several sets of socks from Hamilton Dry Good and some tartan cloth, all at very reasonable cost and with no damage etc in shipping. I think your guy in the PO was the exception, not the rule.

Brian