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The Oz Round Table boards => The Round Table => Topic started by: *CountessA* on January 11, 2010, 03:54:29 PM
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I have just lost out on winning a Georgian silver spoon by Hester Bateman.
At least I know that I lost out having placed my maximum. I decided coolly ahead of time how much I was willing to spend, and the final price was about 10 pounds higher.
Oh well. *has a short moan about other bidders*
Perhaps it's just as well. If I'm to get a full Georgian silver tea service, I'm going to need every penny...
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*snipe?*
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I have just lost out on winning a Georgian silver spoon by Hester Bateman.
At least I know that I lost out having placed my maximum. I decided coolly ahead of time how much I was willing to spend, and the final price was about 10 pounds higher.
Oh well. *has a short moan about other bidders*
Perhaps it's just as well. If I'm to get a full Georgian silver tea service, I'm going to need every penny...
Fear not Tess I have another for you...and I'll throw in a fork as well !...
(http://www.oztion.com.au/oa/ImageGenerator.axd?image=69F4CE52965345D996149ACAC3863F26)
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That's not... *ominous pause* ... Hester Bateman.
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Junk Thread new-comer...nice, but why?
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That's not... *ominous pause* ... Hester Bateman.
Oh !! Bateman...my bad...LOL...{ I wus speed reading }...LOL
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This could turn into a thread about all the things we NEARLY win for good prices... like the fish that got away.
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All of yez is on Crack!
And it's not that pure, suckers......
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Oh...we're having a bad hair...I mean no hair day today tello?..diddums...
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For me, it's a bad heirloom day.
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:lol:....that too....
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*stepping out of this one*
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Wise move...lol
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:wtf:
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Have we confused you, Tello?
Right. Point 1: I collect Georgian silver. I am especially interested in silver items made in England in the 1790s.
Point 2: The Bateman family were excellent silversmiths, and H. Bateman in particular is highly regarded.
Point 3: There was a H. Bateman spoon listed on eBay.
Point 4: I placed a snipe bid for it.
Point 5: My snipe bid was lower than the winning bid.
Point 6: I want to complain about it and have other bidders keelhauled for daring to bid up the price of that silver spoon to an amount that was 10 pounds more than I wanted to pay.
Point 7: There.
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Don't say I didn't warn ya....lol
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Where am I supposed to care about what?
Sorry. I got Scoot on me agenda....
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r271/rontello/Scooter%20Stuff/Scoot%20Ride%201-10-10/ScootRide1-10-10010.jpg)
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here is a whole set for you
eBay 110459525738
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Cheeky.
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This page one is just aching to have a page 2.
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I had a winning bid on a new 46" LCD TV for 4.9 days.
I got sniped in the last 2 1/2 hours....
Went for over $1,000 - guess my $56 wasn't quite enough.
:castle:
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On a more realistic note....
Have been looking for a toner cartridge, preferably genuine, at a reasonable cost. Found one listed and watched it for a while. Only the one, opening bid - all the way up to the last few minutes, so I decided to have a go.
After the usual contemplation about how much I'd really go to, I settled on a figure and set myself up to snipe - the real way... manually!
Countdown in one window, confirm button waiting in another. Looking good all the way. Got to about 5 seconds (yeah - I chickened early) and hit the button.
I didn't get the 'Outbid' message ... I got the "The following must be corrected before continuing" message.
Another sniper beat me to it.
The first bidder won the item - but were pushed to their maximum.
The sniper missed out - by less than one bid increment
I missed out - but I had set my maximum.
Item=120519621481 (http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=120519621481)
Upon reflection, this turned out to be a classic example of a fair outcome, with good and not so good points for everyone... that just needs a philosophical outlook.
The winning bidder got the item (good) but for their maximum - not the $50 it looked like until the last 3 seconds (not so good)
The other sniper got in for a chance (good) - but missed out by less than a bid increment (not so good)
I had my shot (good) and missed out (not so good) but didn't have time to convince myself to pay more (very, very good)
The seller didn't get the $150 he had as a BIN option at the start (not so good) but he did get $129 and not $50 (good).
...and what makes this all the more comfortable as a fair outcome is that 3 different people put the value to them within a $10 range.