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[quote="fred"]Patience patience :) It took me two sets of groups actually. And some patience. I wasn't in a hurry for the chip so I just entered another set of bids and rode it out seeing auction after auction close $1 over my max. I think one reason people didn't see the one I bid on was they were charging shipping when other people were not. I just bid less on it.[/quote]
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fred
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:16 am
Post subject: patience
Patience patience :)
It took me two sets of groups actually. And some patience. I wasn't in a hurry for the chip so I just entered another set of bids and rode it out seeing auction after auction close $1 over my max. I think one reason people didn't see the one I bid on was they were charging shipping when other people were not. I just bid less on it.
rickyk4
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:14 pm
Post subject: Re: My first snipe in a long time - saved 50%
fred wrote:
I haven't experienced the joys of sniping in a long time. It was great to get a SanDisk Micro SD 8GB for $9 (incl shipping) when most auctions were closing around $16.50. Including this particular sellers duplicate auctions.
Group bidding on about 30 items. About half way through finally hit one that others didn't look at.
Gixen made it happen :)
Yes, in the past I've also been involved in sniping for Micro SD cards for myself. Unfortunately for me I didn't have quite as good a time as you, in fact that was one of the most frustrating sniping experiences I've ever had -- I kept losing all of them, even though I must've bid on over 20 of them. It seemed like every single unit that I was watching was being targeted heavily. I finally got frustrated and found the same thing in a "buy now", and bought it.
Interestingly I also managed to save quite a bit going buy now, because most of the bids were higher than the lowest buy now. I guess people aren't careful enough in researching their bids or else they would've known that they were outbidding even fixed-price auctions.
fred
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:41 pm
Post subject: My first snipe in a long time - saved 50%
I haven't experienced the joys of sniping in a long time. It was great to get a SanDisk Micro SD 8GB for $9 (incl shipping) when most auctions were closing around $16.50. Including this particular sellers duplicate auctions.
Group bidding on about 30 items. About half way through finally hit one that others didn't look at.
Gixen made it happen :)
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