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Location: Upper Left USA | I have the Little Red Riding Viper on ebay and it is getting down to the last 5-6 hours. About 500 views, 24 Watchers, 9 bids and the reserve is nearly met.
Am I the only one that finds themselves getting fairly anxious near the close of an Auction?
What do you guys (and goyls) do in this situation?
The last few auctions I have been involved in have gone dead quiet until the last 5 minutes of the auction, then BAM! I am just waiting for the BAM part. :(
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Location: Midland, MI | If I'm buying, well, I always just bid the max I'm willing to pay, then don't look at the auction until after it's over. I avoid falling in to that trap of 'must have it at any cost' that seems to afflict so many.
If I'm selling...I just keep hitting refresh. :) |
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Location: Chapin SC | Bam! watch Emeril much? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Yup!
He sure gets a lot of use out of his vowels! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Tequila is good for helping the wait go by. |
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Location: NJ | Tequila is good for helping the WORLD go by . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | ...for helping WATCH the world go by... |
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Location: NJ | Captain MOrgan for me of JD
btw e snipe.com |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cwk2:
...for helping WATCH the world go by... I know enough of it makes me start seeing things. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | To all:
I know it is wrong to use this board for personnal gain and to spam others but I can't contain this any longer.
I am looking for fanancial backers on a new Hair Growth lotion made from Rogain, Viagra and Prozac.
If your hair grows back, it'll stand straight up.
And if it won't, like, you'll be totally OK with that. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Professionally speaking, That combination may only help the short and curly ones grow. You may wind up with a chia pet where you may least want it! :eek: :rolleyes:
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Phil,
Carried over from another thread...
Go here |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | This is what I meant by Al's shameless plug from a previous thread/post
"the sound is very good. if you like the elite t you will like the rf.
the paint on the back may make it a tad more slippery but nothing an O fan cannot handle.
I have one in stock. (shameless plug)" |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | You know what...it was Paul Wag not Phil Wong on the RT conversation.
Easy to get you two confused :rolleyes: ;) |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Arn't they brothers? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Mike, I eschew the above suggestions, and would soberly throw my absolute highest bid with 20 seconds to go....sniping yourself is a successful strategy...it often works for me.
If you're at your top already.....you might want to think HIGHER.....
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Aren't all Ovation guitar owners, brothers in one way or another? :rolleyes: :cool: :D .
Hey, It almost sounds like that new summer movie.
We can call us "The brotherhood of the traveling Ovation Guitar". :cool: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, I never put in my highest till the very end. That's if I really want it. By then you have a pretty good idea of what your highest needs to be (and then you do or you don't bid it). If I don't really care about it I put it in and look away till it's over. That approach rarely works for me. |
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Location: SoCal | Now I'm pissed at you guys. With 3 minutes to go, I'm watching this auction like I've got something at stake.
I try to stay relaxed, but last October when I really wanted the GC DB, I was a nervous wreck.
By the way, I think this Viper is a beautiful guitar. It's nice to see that Woodrow got the Ovation decal on the pickguard the way it's supposed to go. Somebody must have straightened that boy out. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Geez...I need to pay attention more....I thought Mike was BIDDING on it, not SELLING it.
I sold a guitar on eBay a month ago---it met reserve within 12 hours of listing.....but it also went BAM at the end, too. Hope Mike's did....
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Location: Upper Left USA | The logo was right and the knobs were in the right place too!
It nearly went across town to Mr. Golf but will now go to Zip 77584, wherever that is!
Nothing like a little group effort, eh?
I'm going out for a beer now! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Little Bam! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Thanks again Mr. Golf!
You turned it into an auction!
Actually Kurt and I talked shortly before (didn't know he would take another run at it). He has some great ideas for a Preacher Semi-Deluxe.
Maybe even a Music venture to couple with an OFC NW Getogether! |
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Location: Midland, MI | Congrats on the auction, Mike. Have you thought of brancing out? I'm toying with the idea of finding a new body for my Steinberger (it's the P-series with the rock maple mini-v body). ;) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Isn't the GAS bad enough just sticking to one make of instrument? |
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Location: Evansville,IN | I normally bid what I would pay for something. If I feel it's too much I just don't bid.
Been doing the eBay thing for around 7 years now, and if you're willing to wait, it will be back on there sooner or later. Maybe not the original item, but one similar, or just like it.
You just have to be patient. :D |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I know this is easier said than done ... but I try to approach bidding on an auction as if it were shopping in a real store. I have a price in mind and I stick to it no matter what. Usually. Of course unless it's "close" to what I had prepared to pay and I figure, well I drove all the way to the store anyway ... Dave |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Doesn't it pi$$ you off though, when the winning bid is $1 more than your highest bid??? |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by cholloway:
Doesn't it pi$$ you off though, when the winning bid is $1 more than your highest bid??? It used to, but I find if there is another one out there, it will be on the 'Bay sooner or later, and I'll try again, if I haven't found something else. :D
Life is too short to worry about things you don't have much control over. :) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It always "looks" like the winning bid is $1. higher than your max bid. But you should assume that if you tried to re-bid, the winner would have just engaged in a bidding war with you and you may have eventually won it, but at what cost. What is the item worth to you vs. what is it worth to make sure someone else does not get it instead. Dave |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :D
What Dave said! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Geez...
Men. Once noble hunters. Braving the harsh and dangerous wilderness for sustenance...
now we develop nervous disorders shopping on Ebay.
Oh, how far we have fallen... |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Dave is right....the top bid that the winning bidder had submitted was probably a bit more than the $1 over your top. You COULD have gone up a bit, but the result might have been the same....other than costing the other person some more money, and making the seller happier.
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Auction anxiety anyone?