ebay muttering

[neadods]

If I ever have a cardiac, it's going to be in the last 3 minutes of an ebay auction, I swear. Why even bother to have 6-day auctions? It should be a 5-day announcement: "This item will be auctioned off at such and such a time" and 10 minutes for the actual bidding.

On the other hand, I do now own a rare BatB zine with art by my favorite artist that has been on my "get this" list ever since I came back to the fandom.

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[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

"This item will be auctioned off at such and such a time" and 10 minutes for the actual bidding.

Assuming it even takes 10 minutes, and you don't get autosniped in the last 30 seconds. :-PPP (After staying up until 2:30 a.m. to watch it jump by over a grand in said 30 seconds because two computers are bidding against each other. Not that I'm bitter or anything. *wry g*)

Congrats on getting the zine!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

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?

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

SG-1 wardrobe piece -- a leather jacket worn by Sam in a second season ep. stef94 and I were going in together on it (with Amanda's stuff we're both "Hey! Narrow shoulders girl! I want that!"), and it was well within our ceiling right up until that last 30 seconds. I was seriously cranky.