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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 9:24 am
i have several times. love it! 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 9:27 am
<moves eyebrows up and down ala Kip...> Cool jbeanie! I just may have to visit eBay and try it out!!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 9:37 am
Don't be lookin' at no old toys now, ya heah? We'd be snipe fighters and pay too much! j/k!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 9:42 am
Huk, like how old...from which decade? I love toys.....heh.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 9:45 am
Coco - I use eSnipe.com for my eBay last-minute bidding, and have for several years - love it!
eSNIPE With eSnipe, the bidding entries are web-based, so you don't install software on your computer.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 9:50 am
Coco - anything that you WISH you had, can be found on eBay. I never buy really normal stuff there, but little Eeyore keychains, or mugs.....I buy there, because there isn't a mainstream market for them. I know a lot of men like to ebay for shoes. Go to the Nike store, try on a pair of the ones you want, find the exact size, then buy them off eBay for half the price. My bf does that a lot, as well as a few other guys I know. I also look for things that are not available in Canada. It's worth taking a look. Seamonkey - my girlfriend has a problem lately. She tries to get school work done on her computer, but everytime she sits down to do it, her cat will plop down on her hands, on the keyboard. LOL Cats are especially needy when a person reads the newspaper too.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 9:56 am
Eeyore - you said it! "Anything you WISH you had, can be found on eBay." Every time I say to self, I wonder if there are any ____ on eBay?", I find I have a house full of "it" before long! LOL Once upon a time I had one vintage lunchbox and said to self, "I wonder if eBay..... Now I have a few hundred. DH has had a Diesel Shoe disorder for a while now, and eBay has a TON. Precious likes to rub the top of her head on things, so frequently, she finds the dimmer switches and gets busy... up and down go the lights in a room... up and down... 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 10:23 am
Since I have some free time this weekend, I may take the opportunity to educate myself on using eBay. I have a feeling I'm going to like it...ut ohh... Edit: I forgot to mention that I've been listening to Christmas music this morning....
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 10:54 am
Huk, like how old...from which decade? I love toys.....heh. From my childhood...uh, it was awhile ago! 
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Joely
Member
09-24-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:04 am
Oh wow. I slept in. I didn't know how that felt... I haven't slept in for 3 1/2 years now. NICE! I used to LIVE off of eBay.... selling stuff that is. AND I used to (and sometimes do) buy ALL the boys clothing on eBay along with shoes. I buy brands like Gap that I know will be durable and most of the time they look brand new because babies rarely wear anything out. I have 3 huge tubs of baby clothes to relist on eBay and haven't had the time. Someday, I will ha I tried a snipper service once for something that I wanted and was afraid it wasn't going to work ... ha! So I bid anyways. Since ~ I CAN'T believe that you're watching an expensive tv without RED, don't get used to it! haha I'm gong to turn the Christmas music on and get to work... AFTER I HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE! Good Morning TVCH! (I said that like Good Morning Vietnam!) 
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Joely
Member
09-24-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:05 am
Oh, I used to sell my baby food jars on eBay. The larger the lot, the more money I'd get for them. People make candles with them. Funny, huh? Shipping was expensive for them, but, they bought them! lol
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:13 am
I have an eBay question. I went ahead and registered...yay! So, I decided to look for a Bose Wave Radio System and I found a new one or two. The regular price for this units is $499.00. Nobody has started a bid for these units, so what happens if I start at $200.00 and it ends there...would I "win" it? Does the seller have a choice to pull it off if he doesn't get a high enough bid for it's close actual cost? Anyone, please feel free to answer....thanks! Edit: Duh! I bet he uses Snipeville or eSnipe!!??
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:19 am
Ee~ I have this invention....Everytime I sit down at the PC a kitty or two wants to sit on the keyboard..they plop right down. So I thought I would make an acrylic or Plexiglas "shield" so they would not be able to lay on the keyboard. It blocks them from walking on it from all sides...... Coco~ As I have said before I use http://auctionsniper.com/ to snipe. It has been around the longest and it has some cool features. For example, you can program it to call you cell phone and tell you if you are being outbid, or if you won or lost the auction. I really like that feature! You can adjust the snipes to bid up to 1 second before the auction ends...I don't like to cut it that close. Be careful on Ebay. Check out the sellar's feedback. If they have less than 98% satisfaction I would look why. If a bunch of people are saying bad things...listen to them. Even a near perfect feedback is not a guarantee of an honest seller. Remember the old but true saying..."if it is too good to be true, it probably is..."
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:21 am
Coco the seller may have a minimum set bid in place, if that bid isn't met the seller can pull the unit. I don't know too much about e-bay, I don't trust it personally, but a lot of others buy stuff there all the time.
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Joely
Member
09-24-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:21 am
Coco, if he doesn't have a reserve price set on it, and you bid $200 AND no one else actually bids on it, then yes, you win it. Sellers don't use snipper services because they are bidding on the item (unless they are illegally bidding up there items through someone else's account; which on another note, regular offenders do get caught!) So, if the action says reserve price on it... it won't tell you what that price is and if you don't bid above it, there still isn't an agreement to sell it to you. ???
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Joely
Member
09-24-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:31 am
Since ~ good advice about feedback, new sellers need to look at that! If feedback is 98 or less, you can research why by reading the feeback. Negative feedback from other buyers is what lowers their feedback number... so search through all their feedback to find the negative feedback and see why the buyer was not happy... sometimes buyers have good complaints to know about, and other times, it's their own fault! Like package lost and no refund and then the seller says, dude you should have bought insurance!
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Joely
Member
09-24-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:31 am
Hey look at us Bantering in the Buyers area! hmm!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:35 am
My gawd, you guys are a wealth of great information!! Thanks so much for the feedback!
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:36 am
Coco~ just saw your new post...yes, a seller can retract a bid. It has happened to me numerous times. Usually that is why they set a "reserve". I hate those. I normally will not bid when there is a "reserve that is not met" cause I see it as playing games. Just start the bidding at the lowest amount you will take and be done with it. The seller uses that tactic hoping that once you start the bidding you will be hooked and overbid in order to win. The highest bid wins. But us snipers won't bid even once until a few minutes/seconds before the end. Competition raise the price. Unless it is a oneofakind thing there will always be another one up for auction soon! Also, type in your object of desire and check the "look in completed sales only" box. It will show you how much that object is going for on Ebay at the present. You will see the max and the min you might expect to pay for the item. Read the fine print! If there is alot of explanation of the product...read! Some unscrupulous seller will bury in the description things like..."This product is not working","This is an auction only for the remote not the TV.", "this is only an auction for the website to buy the product" etc. Buyer beware!!! Also check out the shipping fee. Some sellers have a low price for the actual product and a ridiculous shipping or insurance fee that makes the total price of the object more than another.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:39 am
Coco, I wouldn't bid anything...just hold on until it is close to the closing time. Say you open the bids at $200.00 and there are three or four days left on the auction...you'll be certain to get others to begin bidding. Bide your time, and put the item in the "Item's I'm Watching." E-Bay will e-mail you and tell you if others are bidding or if there is just a day left (or some amount of time like that). I don't use a sniper/sniping service...I am the best sniper out there with the fastest fingers in the East! and don't bid on old toys or I will come peeking in your windows when you least expect it!!
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:39 am
Joely...I was just thinking that the usual suspects will be complaining that this discussion belongs somewhere else...THAT is the beauty of this thread. There is no wrong subject. Will they ever give up?
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:42 am
Hey Since, thanks for s'more great information. I have been doing a lot of reading this past hour...trying to educate myself on eBay bidding, etc. And what you guys posted here has been very helpful, so thanks again! This is me ------> And geez...now I'm looking at the eBay glossary...omg!!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:44 am
....I love old toys....heh...goes and checks windows...<snickers>
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:44 am
Joely - that is wild about the baby food jars! And really, that's the amazing side of eBay -- where else could you easily find a supply like that, and probably a long list of choices, too!? Since - I love your invention. Sort of like a restaurant "sneeze guard" over the salad bar! Maybe it would keep cat fur out of my keyboard. Coco - sometimes eBay sellers have low starting prices and much higher shipping charges, so check that. A seller can end an auction early for a variety of reasons, but "I don't like how the bidding is going" is not a choice eBay gives when you do end one early. Not to say a seller is always upfront about their reasons when they do end an auction early. Now that you are a registered user, the BEST thing you can do to educate yourself about eBay pricing is to search finished auctions. That is the only true information, because most auction action happens at the end anyway. Up at the top of every eBay page, under the search box is "Advanced Search". Click that, enter your search information and then click "Completed Listings Only". That's the "knowledge is power" info that you need to see how high people have been willing to go on the item you're interested in. You can also click (on the left) "Items by Seller" and type in the ID of the seller you might be buying from. You can check their completed listings specifically. If that Bose seller is doing things that don't seem quite Kosher, you can get a feel for it by looking at their finished auctions for that Bose system.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 11:47 am
Yeah, about this thread....I hesitated to post a question about eBay, but then this thread is hosted by Bonza and I have developed a nice following with all of you here in this thread, so I went for it. However, I am waiting for someone to say something and I'll be a good girl and bite my tongue...again. It's my newest trick I've learned in order to continue posting here before I get kicked off...gulp!
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