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Missed it by that much.......
Stupid Ebay.......
I have been looking for a cheap big road frame that I can convert to a fixie lately and I had my eye on an old Shogun road bike on ebay last night that had a frame big enough for me. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....e=STRK:MEWA:IT I was planning on making a bid in the closing minutes of $101 as I was prepared to spend up to $100........I was stuffing around and nearly missed the closing time so I had to place my bid in a hurry and I put in $100 instead of $101...... and of course I was f*$%^n outbid by someone who bid $100 earlier than I did. Guess I will have to keep looking.....if anyone has got an old road frame that is about 62cm or so from BB to top tube then give me a yell so that I can make a ridiculously underpriced offer. Ride On, Gags |
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Missed it by that much.......
"Gags" gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au wrote in message ... Stupid Ebay....... I have been looking for a cheap big road frame that I can convert to a fixie lately and I had my eye on an old Shogun road bike on ebay last night that had a frame big enough for me. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....e=STRK:MEWA:IT I was planning on making a bid in the closing minutes of $101 as I was prepared to spend up to $100........I was stuffing around and nearly missed the closing time so I had to place my bid in a hurry and I put in $100 instead of $101...... and of course I was f*$%^n outbid by someone who bid $100 earlier than I did. Guess I will have to keep looking.....if anyone has got an old road frame that is about 62cm or so from BB to top tube then give me a yell so that I can make a ridiculously underpriced offer. Ride On, Gags It's also possible that the person who won it was using proxy bidding and his bid automatically goes up as soon as someone bids a couple of dollars higher than the current bid. I don't know if you've ever experienced that before but for example if the current bid is $100 , it's usually from the last bidder, then someone like you who waits till just the last minute decides as you did to put $101, but the bidder before you actually had his bid around $120 so that unless someones bids more than $120 the scale will always climb to out bid you untill you overtake his highest amount entered. But, you don't know how much that is...could've been $150 the other guy was prepared to pay for it but instead he got it for $120 because no-one outbid him. Clear as mud!! Cheers DJ |
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Missed it by that much.......
"DJ" wrote in message
... "Gags" gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au wrote in message ... Stupid Ebay....... I have been looking for a cheap big road frame that I can convert to a fixie lately and I had my eye on an old Shogun road bike on ebay last night that had a frame big enough for me. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....e=STRK:MEWA:IT I was planning on making a bid in the closing minutes of $101 as I was prepared to spend up to $100........I was stuffing around and nearly missed the closing time so I had to place my bid in a hurry and I put in $100 instead of $101...... and of course I was f*$%^n outbid by someone who bid $100 earlier than I did. Guess I will have to keep looking.....if anyone has got an old road frame that is about 62cm or so from BB to top tube then give me a yell so that I can make a ridiculously underpriced offer. Ride On, Gags It's also possible that the person who won it was using proxy bidding and his bid automatically goes up as soon as someone bids a couple of dollars higher than the current bid. I don't know if you've ever experienced that before but for example if the current bid is $100 , it's usually from the last bidder, then someone like you who waits till just the last minute decides as you did to put $101, but the bidder before you actually had his bid around $120 so that unless someones bids more than $120 the scale will always climb to out bid you untill you overtake his highest amount entered. But, you don't know how much that is...could've been $150 the other guy was prepared to pay for it but instead he got it for $120 because no-one outbid him. Clear as mud!! Cheers DJ Not in this case....he got it for $100.00 - the same amount as I bid. Had he bid higher, it would have gone up to $101 or $102.50 or whatever the next increment was........thems the breaks, Gags |
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Missed it by that much.......
"Gags" gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au wrote in message ... "DJ" wrote in message ... "Gags" gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au wrote in message ... Stupid Ebay....... I have been looking for a cheap big road frame that I can convert to a fixie lately and I had my eye on an old Shogun road bike on ebay last night that had a frame big enough for me. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....e=STRK:MEWA:IT I was planning on making a bid in the closing minutes of $101 as I was prepared to spend up to $100........I was stuffing around and nearly missed the closing time so I had to place my bid in a hurry and I put in $100 instead of $101...... and of course I was f*$%^n outbid by someone who bid $100 earlier than I did. Guess I will have to keep looking.....if anyone has got an old road frame that is about 62cm or so from BB to top tube then give me a yell so that I can make a ridiculously underpriced offer. Ride On, Gags It's also possible that the person who won it was using proxy bidding and his bid automatically goes up as soon as someone bids a couple of dollars higher than the current bid. I don't know if you've ever experienced that before but for example if the current bid is $100 , it's usually from the last bidder, then someone like you who waits till just the last minute decides as you did to put $101, but the bidder before you actually had his bid around $120 so that unless someones bids more than $120 the scale will always climb to out bid you untill you overtake his highest amount entered. But, you don't know how much that is...could've been $150 the other guy was prepared to pay for it but instead he got it for $120 because no-one outbid him. Clear as mud!! Cheers DJ Not in this case....he got it for $100.00 - the same amount as I bid. Had he bid higher, it would have gone up to $101 or $102.50 or whatever the next increment was........thems the breaks, Gags Sometimes I have found that if you're trying to play the last minute bidding game, right up to the minute, your bid doesn't quite make it to the system.I was doing this once and bid 2 minutes before the close only to miss out as ebay's system sometimes doesn't refresh as quick as we do.......my bid didn't make it. DJ |
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