The 'look at what I did today' thread

Post by **SPYDOR** » Thu May 22, 2014 5:27 pm

...or £80,081.35

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu May 22, 2014 6:54 pm

You put the decimal point in the wrong place and missed a 5 off the end...

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Thu May 22, 2014 7:22 pm

I'm the same with the pennies. If 2 people bid £10.00 the first to bid wins. If a third person bids 10.02 then that amount will win.
That's my understanding of it anyway.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu May 22, 2014 7:42 pm

case in point. i just won a pair of boots. 21£ up until 2:45 before end. Then some idiot puts in a bid of 27.81 thus raising it to thae last highest bid of 25.55. Why?

I put in a winning bid and have to pay £4.55 more than I needed to because ofsome 'insert expletive here''

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Thu May 22, 2014 7:49 pm

Thigh boots?

Post by **SPYDOR** » Thu May 22, 2014 7:58 pm

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu May 22, 2014 8:26 pm

love that film. so acid trip

60's..

no i got these beauties...

boots for walking

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu May 22, 2014 9:49 pm

Post by **Doggo** » Thu May 22, 2014 10:05 pm

SPYDOR wrote:If you want to be really sneaky then technically you shouldn't even be 'watching' the item as that informs people of your interest. Just keep an eye on it manually, knowing when it ends.

Kids stuff. I don`t even keep an eye on it manually, in case I'm being hacked. Just bid randomly on things without turning my monitor on. (In all honesty, given the crap I've bought when drunk I might as well do this. jobby just turns up a week later seemingly from nowhere

)

Sailor, the bit that took me a while is the "what's it worth to you". I had to underbid (sniping) and lose stuff a few times before I reframed this definition for myself as "At what price when this sells will I think "oh, that's ok, I wouldn't have wanted to pay that anyway" bearing in mind having to be arsed to do it all again, postage, waiting, emotional investment and a host of other factors"

Give it time. That won't seem so weird. Maybe.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Fri May 23, 2014 12:07 am

Doggo wrote: Sailor, the bit that took me a while is the "what's it worth to you". I had to underbid (sniping) and lose stuff a few times before I reframed this definition for myself as "At what price when this sells will I think "oh, that's ok, I wouldn't have wanted to pay that anyway"

I guess it's different if you really want to buy something.

In my case, though, it was a dummy run. The Legend looked to be OK and probably worth between £800 and £1200 (I didn't go to see it). I wouldn't have minded it, but that wasn't the point. My price limit was set purely at the point where I felt I could double my money if the car accidentally came my way. The final figure definitely fitted your "I wouldn't have wanted to pay that anyway" criterion.

The process went something like:
- see car on ebay and think 'mmm'.
- watch what's happening
- at 20 hours before the end, see that others are bidding
- join ebay
- watch a bit more
- set 'auto-bid' (or whatever it's called) to half my max
- watch a bit more
- set 'auto-bid' (or whatever it's called) to my max
- watch the price double in the last 5 minutes

I understand what you say about keeping quiet until the last knockings - it's what I would do in a 'real' auction. The pennies thing makes sense, too, outside of a saleroom.