and you don't get autosniped in the last 30 seconds.
That's happened to me. Oh, does that suck! My current strategy is to put in an insanely high overbid, and to let the snipers wear themselves out trying to go up by $5 or $10 or $20 as the clock runs out. Only once have I truely bitten myself in the ass that way, and that was because it turns out I was bidding against a sock puppet in a pump and snatch scam. The original auctioneer and I figured out what was happening and worked out a compromise.
On the other hand, it makes me insane to put in a bid on something and have it sit for $30 for almost a week, then to see it go for $150.
Bummer you got cut out, and in the middle of the night too. What was it?
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Date: 2005-01-18 02:47 pm (UTC)That's happened to me. Oh, does that suck! My current strategy is to put in an insanely high overbid, and to let the snipers wear themselves out trying to go up by $5 or $10 or $20 as the clock runs out. Only once have I truely bitten myself in the ass that way, and that was because it turns out I was bidding against a sock puppet in a pump and snatch scam. The original auctioneer and I figured out what was happening and worked out a compromise.
On the other hand, it makes me insane to put in a bid on something and have it sit for $30 for almost a week, then to see it go for $150.
Bummer you got cut out, and in the middle of the night too. What was it?