ygogolak Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Manual sniping is where it's at. With one minute left, you enter your max amount. With three seconds left, you hit confirm Your bid will post just as time expires without anyone having a chance to respond. Unless their max was higher than your offer. Then you don't have a chance to respond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01TheDude Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 I don't know-- if I want something, I used a sniping program where I would determine what the most I was willing to pay for an item and put that number in. If it went past that-- it wasn't meant to be. The program puts the bid in with 7 seconds left if the current bid isn't already over the amount (which happened quite often). It can be fun sometimes to monitor an auction and do the manual thing. But having that snipe bid in place can be very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecopperagekids Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 I don't know-- if I want something, I used a sniping program where I would determine what the most I was willing to pay for an item and put that number in. If it went past that-- it wasn't meant to be. The program puts the bid in with 7 seconds left if the current bid isn't already over the amount (which happened quite often). It can be fun sometimes to monitor an auction and do the manual thing. But having that snipe bid in place can be very useful. Hmm, can you post up a linky to the sniping program that you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budsbundy Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Manual sniping is where it's at. With one minute left, you enter your max amount. With three seconds left, you hit confirm Your bid will post just as time expires without anyone having a chance to respond. Unless their max was higher than your offer. Then you don't have a chance to respond. You don't see the wisdom in that? You save yourself from yourself by doing it that way. You put in the max you are willing to pay with three seconds left, and if you don't win it, it's because someone was willing to pay more than your max. If I allow myself time to respond(by bidding early), I might get caught up in a bidding war, and pay more than I wanted to in the heat of the moment.(Losing my good judgement, and overpaying) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 I can share a working technique, but Ill have to kill ya after that.. I kid There are no tricks.. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I snipe. Like... All the time.. Wait for the last second, not a second earlier. I have a sniping tool but its not super reliable. So I always monitor my watchlist sometimes a seller will change the shipping fees.. Sometimes hell change the whole dam listing Just like Hector said.. DO NOT GET ATTACHED TO THE BOOK.. Theres always another one around the corner, sometimes youll have to wait a while, but it will be there I was looking for a Huzzah #1 for months.. Someone listed it and I sniped and lost. I wanted to hang myself... Next WEEK someone else listed it for 30.00 BIN and I got it right away You guessed it.. The previous auction ended 3 times the amount Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsilverjanet Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 I can share a working technique, but Ill have to kill ya after that.. I kid There are no tricks.. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I snipe. Like... All the time.. Wait for the last second, not a second earlier. I have a sniping tool but its not super reliable. So I always monitor my watchlist sometimes a seller will change the shipping fees.. Sometimes hell change the whole dam listing Just like Hector said.. DO NOT GET ATTACHED TO THE BOOK.. Theres always another one around the corner, sometimes youll have to wait a while, but it will be there I was looking for a Huzzah #1 for months.. Someone listed it and I sniped and lost. I wanted to hang myself... Next WEEK someone else listed it for 30.00 BIN and I got it right away You guessed it.. The previous auction ended 3 times the amount The most import thing is to create a watch list for that particular item Also note the items we are posting aren't super popular items They are of value but no one is sniping a hulk 181 or AF15 books like that always have 100s of watchers. If you get lucky with those it's via buy it now greggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 I guess one night when I have nothing to do and insomnia reigns I will set up a gazillion ebay searches. Or I guess I could just do one or two at a time as they occur to me. That would probably add up pretty quickly. Nah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 speaking of which.. These arrived today http://www.ebay.com/itm/Batman-The-Animated-Series-Tim-Sale-Bruce-Timm-Assorted-Art-Books-DC-Comics-/262383918693?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=dKX%252FnHMldt0lFTa%252FHPPqNZodTvk%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 And these just shipped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 godamit I slept through THIS ONE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsilverjanet Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 i won this for $40 including shipping greggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manetteska Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 i won this for $40 including shipping Will your wife let you keep it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsilverjanet Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 no greggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 Sweet!! Thats an Artist Proof edition right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blob Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 And these just shipped Is the fire damage all on the back covers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KryptoMayor Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 I bought this one raw and had it graded. Auction style with starting bid at $75 plus shipping. I expected other bidders but I was the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoKing Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 I bought this one raw and had it graded. Auction style with starting bid at $75 plus shipping. I expected other bidders but I was the only one. so pretty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygogolak Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Nice, didn't realize that brings so much in that grade, and even lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted May 7, 2016 Author Share Posted May 7, 2016 And these just shipped Is the fire damage all on the back covers? When contacting the seller prior to bidding she told me only issues 4&5 had burns.. So it was a no brainer for me.. #1 & 2 are NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 This came in today The New Mutants GN is an easy 9.4.. Prolly a 9.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...