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fred
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Location: Seattle WA
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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: My first snipe in a long time - saved 50% |
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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.
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rickyk4
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: My first snipe in a long time - saved 50% |
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| 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. |
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fred
Joined: 18 Mar 2009
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Location: Seattle WA
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:16 am Post subject: patience |
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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. |
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