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Welton Toffee

Welton Toffee

Player Valuation: £40m
Well. This morning I was bidding on three signed Everton photos. With seconds to go I was the only bidder on all three of them. However, in the last second of ALL THREE of the auctions, there was a new bidder. It was the same bidder each time, and all three bids were just below my high bid, so pushed my winning bid right up to my maximum price. The bidder was a different sports memorabelia dealer. It was unbelievable, each time the auctions got down to 1 second remaining, in came another bid and up went the winning price.

Now I know about auction 'sniping', but surely if they'd actually wanted the photos they would have put higher bids on to ensure they won them. I'm just thinking whether or not it's too much of a coincidence that the bids were all just below my high bid. But surely there's no way they could have known my bids, is there?!
 
That's weird, because yesterday on my walk I thought someone was following me, and in Somerfield car park there was this black 4x4 parked in the far corner.

Trust no one Welton, no one!
 
GhostOfDixie said:
That's weird, because yesterday on my walk I thought someone was following me, and in Somerfield car park there was this black 4x4 parked in the far corner.

Trust no one Welton, no one!
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

I still got a great deal. All three photos with postage are costing me £18. On the website of the people I bought them off, it costs £18 without postage for just one. But I could have had an even better deal if it hadn't been for these pesky kids! Sorry, bit of a Scooby Doo moment there :P
 
The seller has access right? and he is only a phone call away from a friend...

wouldn't surprise me, people always mess up a good thing for money in the end.
 

ahh.... well maybe he was trying to snipe and set his maximum bid just lower than yours and hence he tried to snipe but just ended up costing you money.
 
rob_japan said:
ahh.... well maybe he was trying to snipe and set his maximum bid just lower than yours and hence he tried to snipe but just ended up costing you money.
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Aye, unless he's got some seriously illegal software that must be what happened. Ah well, I'm still happy, I got what I wanted :)
 
no i dont think they can.

Ebay has perculiar rules, the manner in which you bid and the forced increments (SP) can make winning bids look very perculiar. also, you have to look at items objectivley, your winning an auction and your top bid is five quid its likely someone else out there in internet land will throw a fiver at the item as well, so if you make your top bid five fifty they could still push the auction up with their intended fiver bid.

make sense?

the trick is to be the person making the last second bid, that way you havnt registered interest in the item and the seller cant try to get a pal to push the price up for him.

i really dislike ebay amateurs because they cant hold their load, too many times i have seen pillocks ruin auctions because they dont know what they are doing and piss about making big bids whilst there are still minutes to run.
 

I usually do leave it late Suits, but the auctions ended at around half 7 this morning. I didn't fancy my chances of being up in time so whacked the bids on late last night. As it happened I was up in time
 
Welton Toffee said:
I usually do leave it late Suits, but the auctions ended at around half 7 this morning. I didn't fancy my chances of being up in time so whacked the bids on late last night. As it happened I was up in time
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Keith Shabs does a lot on eBay (whistles and leaves):lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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