Ebay sniping

[AtW]

Tramp.

And where do you shop, in Harrods?

[Bob Dalek]

And where do you shop, in Harrods?

No. Harrods is, in fact, a gaudy bauble and only fit for Americans.

I shop at nice places, with intelligible labelling on their goods.

[AtW]

I shop at nice places, with intelligible labelling on their goods.

It's not on this planet is it?

From all supermarkets I prefer Morrisons, then Asda - Tesco is terrible and I almost never go there. Aldi is pretty good for some things.

[Bob Dalek]

It's not on this planet is it?

From all supermarkets I prefer Morrisons, then Asda - Tesco is terrible and I almost never go there. Aldi is pretty good for some things.

Tramp.

[AtW]

Tramp.

And you think your opinion matters to me in the least?

[Bob Dalek]

And you think your opinion matters to me in the least?

Yes, of course.

[TheFaQQer]

I just bid again on another same keyboard (could be same guy) - cost me £5 to win it, £9 delivery - the other one the sniping idiot won it for £26 + £9 delivery, I bid max £20

I'm just trying to get to the bottom of your argument here (which I'm not entirely convinced is humanly possible).

- You bid £20

- The person who bought it bid late for £26.

- There must have been at least one more bid before the sniper, for it to jump from £20 to £26, so you lost out to more than one bid.

- You bought another one for £5.

- You are upset at the "unfairness" of the system, that you didn't get the chance to bid more than £26 for something that eventually cost you £5.

- Still, you bought another one for £5.

I'm really, really struggling here to see what your argument is - under your proposed system, you would have bid again, and ended up paying at least five times more than your final price. And you think this is a good idea??

At least this is in line with your multitude of economics posts in their logical analysis.

[AtW]

I'm really, really struggling here to see what your argument is - under your proposed system, you would have bid again, and ended up paying at least five times more than your final price. And you think this is a good idea??

It was luck I got another one for £5. My issue is with the way that I was unable to respond to that sniping bid as it was done just before auction closed. That fact that I was lucky does not invalidate my arguement - if I had a choice to kick all snipers out of ebay and pay £20 for the keyboard that I got for £5 (thus paying £15 more) I'd certainly do it.

[TheFaQQer]

It was luck I got another one for £5. My issue is with the way that I was unable to respond to that sniping bid as it was done just before auction closed. That fact that I was lucky does not invalidate my arguement - if I had a choice to kick all snipers out of ebay and pay £20 for the keyboard that I got for £5 (thus paying £15 more) I'd certainly do it.

But, you did respond to it - you bid on another item, and in the process saved yourself £15 on your other bid, not counting any further bids that you may have put it.

I'm still not getting the "eBay saved me money, and I'm not happy about it" idea, sorry.

[AtW]

But, you did respond to it - you bid on another item, and in the process saved yourself £15 on your other bid, not counting any further bids that you may have put it.

Yes, luckily there was another item that was due to expire in 10 more mins, so I put a bid in and wasted 10 more minutes refreshing the page to ensure no sniper gets it.

You and others who argued against me on here on this topic can't grasp the big picture and you certainly don't give a tulip if something is right or wrong, so long as you profit. Well, it matters to me - I am not happy about getting keyboard for £5, fair value was £20 easy - if snipers were not putting people off ebay there would be more bidders and I am sure both keyboards would have been sold for decent price. That's not right for the marketplace and my temporary personal gain is totally irrelevant as long term negative effects of not providing fair value to the sellers would result in less sellers there. Frankly, ebay policies put off a lot of people already, they just don't give a tulip since they have a monopoly.