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miro
26th October 2005, 09:14 AM
I can now officially say that this SNIPE stuff rocks!!

The auction I won, when I was at home away from a computer, last night went like this:

Firstly a its a five day auction that for 4 days has been sitting at $999.

Time to Go / Bid
4 days / $999
3 min 27 sec / $1034 =bidder 2 enters the ring
1 min 55 / $1084 =bidder 2 trying ot get over the line
1 min 38 / $1134 =bidder 2 outbids bidder 1's previous max bid
1 min 20 / $1184 =bidder 1 fights back (with a larger max bid)
15 seconds =$1384 bidder 2 places 6 individual bids to grab the lead once more and must think he has got it
12 seconds = $1500 bidder 1 grabs the glory or so he thought
4 seconds - $1511 MIRO comes from nowhere for the victory!!!!

Ah I can just imagine the adrenalin and disappointment of the other two bidders. Both sitting at their computer screens scratching their heads going how the hell did I lose that! 8) Meanwhile I was at the driving range relaxing.

AndyP
26th October 2005, 09:26 AM
:mrgreen:
How much more were you prepared to pay miro?

Another advantage is that it takes the emotion of the auction out of it, so you don't make any stupid spur of the moment decisions to up that price some more.

Of course, some people love the adrenalin of manually sniping.

miro
26th October 2005, 09:35 AM
AP,

Interestingly that was my high bid. Its 50% of retail for brand new stuff and I added a random $11 to overcome any round dollar bidding (i.e. the guy who lost at $1500). I thought $1500 would be roughly what they sold for.

Jarro
26th October 2005, 12:56 PM
nice work miro 8)

that's a lot of money to pay for a driver though :P

CobraSS
26th October 2005, 01:12 PM
nice work miro 8)

that's a lot of money to pay for a driver though :P

:lol:

McMw
26th October 2005, 01:42 PM
wat was the purchase for anyway???

miro
26th October 2005, 02:00 PM
Something for the love of my life.....

my car.


..........just kidding honey (if she happens to see this).

3oneday
26th October 2005, 02:15 PM
nice work miro  8)

that's a lot of money to pay for a driver though  :Pit was just a shaft mate :wink: :wink:

:lol: :lol:

AndyP
26th October 2005, 02:19 PM
..........just kidding honey (if she happens to see this).
Well, she is a member of the site.