Dan Fromm said:Smieglitz, if Galli beats you consistently then the most you'll pay is consistently very, very low. Jim usually buys for resale and is very cold-blooded about bidding. He needs his margins, can't afford to overpay.
moose10101 said:And you're also the one who's hosed the seller...
jimgalli said:BTW Joe, if you were bidding against me on that smallish Voigtlander Petzval the other day.........that I sniped and WON!!......it got here today. It'd be really neat..........if it only had a front group!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!
jimgalli said:Yes I use snipe engines too.
smieglitz said:Nope. The other day it was the small Wooly Vitax.
MattCarey said:Anyway, I emailed Jim to tell him which lenses I was interested in, should he decide to divest himself of the new loot.
jimgalli said:small? SMALL?? That thing would hold the Queen Mary in bay during a hurricane. About what it's probably good for too...
jnanian said:personally, i think it is immoral, not using snipeware ( who has the time to be at the end of the auction anyways ) but to *not* tell the seller that the lens she is selling is a mint condition portrait lens, not "telescope lens, i don't know how it works" listed in the " astronomy " section, so i'll be the only bidder. it stinks when you get a 500 lens for like 20$ because it is listed in some wrong and obscure place ---- NOT
"i think whatever this thing is - is broken, it just opens and closes, and is missing a something, but it comes with a neat velvet lined ashtray that says 'let the user judge' written in gold leaf"
jnanian said:personally, i think it is immoral, not using snipeware ( who has the time to be at the end of the auction anyways ) but to *not* tell the seller that the lens she is selling is a mint condition portrait lens, not "telescope lens broken" listed in the " astronomy " section, so i am the only bidder. it stinks when you get a 500$ lens for like 20$ because it is listed in some obscure place ---- > NOT
"i think whatever this thing is - is broken, it just opens and closes, and is missing a something" but "it comes with a neat velvet lined ashtray that says 'let the user judge' written in gold leaf" its not extra.
jimgalli said:Which ones were they Matt? Remind me again. Trying to think of a good 4X5 portrait lens for that guy in the other thread. jg
magic823 said:The thing that pisses me off on ebay are the idiots that bid higher than they could buy the items new for.
Joe, Andrew has complained to me that starting auctions at a low price, in his case $0.77, has cost him money. Not enough items sold for more than his cost. He started them higher for a while, isn't completely back to $0.77.smieglitz said:<snip>
A good detailed description, quality items, good pics and the right attitude can make all the difference to a seller's success. Check out the success of dagor77 for example. Starts all auctions at $0.77 and he rarely sets a reserve unless the item is truly rare. He is one of the most successful sellers in the camera section of eBay.
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Joe
Okay, I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing out my misunderstanding of how these programs work.moose10101 said:Sniping software places a single proxy bid at the user's specified maximum amount. There's no "dollar here and a dollar there", and they don't run out of time. If you win, it's because you bid more, and that's exactly how it should be.
jimgalli said:That's it Nanian. Ever hear of voodoo. Where's that search where you go see what other guys are bidding on...........dang it.
I'm thinking of a situation where an item is sitting around at $100. You feel that a fair and affordable value for that item is $300. If you bid that amount early on, then someone comes along and starts probing for where the bid is at. He gets up to $250 and decides that it is more than he wants to pay. At the end of the auction you pay $250 + the increment where, if you had sniped you would have payed $100 + the increment. You are out 150 bones purely because you didn't snipe.Flotsam said:It seems like a a dirty trick that tends primarily to hose the seller. I guess if all the buyers just bid what they are willing to spend, then a sniper will either lose or pay too much, but it kills the fair and thoughtful bidding aspects of the auction.
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