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godofthunder59 said:
Lol I didn't want to drive it up on you! I am going yo wait a big till I wade in.
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Wise tactic... That's what I've been using on my last three wins on EBay...

Sit patiently and wait, and then put a high maximum in at the last minute, so other bidders won't have the time to ad a new and higher bid...

Unfortunately it doesn't always work...
 
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hillerup said:
Wise tactic... That's what I've been using on my last three wins on EBay...

Sit patiently and wait, and then put a high maximum in at the last minute, so other bidders won't have the time to ad a new and higher bid...

Unfortunately it doesn't always work...
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My strategy is to put in a "losing" bid early and then go to sleep. Sometimes I get an email telling me I won. It's always a surprise, and then I have to tell my wife I'm a fiscal idiot. Again. But the good thing is that my "losing" bid won. I think sometimes the seller has a shill bid things up, because I have noticed that there will be two or three bidders maximum, and the sale price is a few dollars above my bid. Or somebody is just smarter than I am. I don't get into bidding wars.
 
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Christine said:
I've never even got close to a real hurricane, a strong storm yes but not the real thing, they must be terrifying.

That chopped up TBird on ebay was in Lafayette, nothing to do with you by any chance? :roflmao:
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No nothing to do with me. Hadn't even noticed that. Lol

They are quite terrifying. For me though, having been born & raised in Alaska, nothing absolutely nothing is more terrifying than a big earth quake! Thise thing make me really nervous.
 
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Christine said:
Might be worth a read for you last minute bidders, it's about ebay snipping tools to place automatic last second bids

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Useful tools - But if you read all the comments on the article, they all seem to have their issues...

So far it's been working fine for me without the use of a sniping tool...
 
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hillerup said:
Wise tactic... That's what I've been using on my last three wins on EBay...

Sit patiently and wait, and then put a high maximum in at the last minute, so other bidders won't have the time to ad a new and higher bid...

Unfortunately it doesn't always work...
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The old "sniper" strategy, used it many times and you're absolutely right, doesn't always work! ;)
 
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Everything I've ever won on eBay I sniped.
I usually find something I like, figure out the max I'm willing to pay for it but don't enter the bid. Save it to my watch file and put a note on my calendar to check back in about an hour before the auction ends. If the bidding hasn't reached the max I'd pay for the item I check back in about 55 minutes. With 5 minutes to go I que up my max bid and wait until 10 seconds before the auction ends then hit send. I've only lost one auction and the winning bid was well over what I was willing to pay, so I really don't consider it a loss.
I have run into a couple of cases where I had the max bid but the reserve wasn't met so no sale. In those instances I check back a couple of days later to see if the item was relisted. If so, I do the same sniper move but with a slightly lower max bid. I even had one item I finally won that had been relisted 4 times due to deadbeat bidders. I still wonder if the deadbeats were actually shills trying to drive up the price but they realized I was lowering my bid on each relisting so they backed off after the third reduction. ;)
 
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Klondike said:
No nothing to do with me. Hadn't even noticed that. Lol

They are quite terrifying. For me though, having been born & raised in Alaska, nothing absolutely nothing is more terrifying than a big earth quake! Thise thing make me really nervous.
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I can imagine, I remember a very small earthquake here in north Wales in the mid 80s that was alarming enough, a big one must be quite a thing. I think the worst of nature I've experience was the seas when we were sailing to the Falklands in 82, waves of which were huge but not out of the ordinary to the old hands. Which leads me on the the scariest thing I have experienced a couple of weeks later, the air raids in San Carlos water or bomb alley as it became known. The noise of gun fire was incredible, Lemmy Kilminster wouldn't even be heard over the echo of it, funny thing is I actually miss that experience now, the feeling of being alive was overwhelming
 
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Don't you just hate delivery companies? The parts Scott sent me are ready for delivery but the company won't deliver without a signature even though I said it was OK to leave in the greenhouse, so they're getting delivered next Saturday at extra cost. The tuners are almost here, they have been despatched from Stansted airport in the UK so fingers crossed they should be here Monday or Tuesday so I'll be able to make a start on the blinging of the Epiphone soon :bassist:
 
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So since it sounds like the club brethren in the storm path are okay, I run nakedness and wild, no bow
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Or something like that. This is what has been eating all my time and money. Going to get back on the basstird soon. It does need a lower bridge to be playable. Need to do some woodwork after my debutchery in the neck pocket
 
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Bent77 said:
So since it sounds like the club brethren in the storm path are okay, I run nakedness and wild, no bowView attachment 965765

Or something like that. This is what has been eating all my time and money. Going to get back on the basstird soon. It does need a lower bridge to be playable. Need to do some woodwork after my debutchery in the neck pocket
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Nice pic! Was that up in the Durango/Silverton area?
 
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GBassNorth said:
It's actually pretty slow in the TBird sandbox right now. We need some glamour shots.... Post em if ya got em!
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Nice to see a Gibson and a Spector side by side... Makes me enjoy the original even more... :)

Although the Spector is nice, I think the original body shape is much nicer aesthetically... :)
 
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