I bid $400 on Little Samson...

[MyTurnToPlay]

So I bid $400 on the sealed brand new Little Samson currently up on ebay and yeah....I did it knowing fully well that there was no way in hell I would actually win it....but on a whim I just felt like raising the price.

But I thought, what the hell....let's get the party started already and jack up the price to $400 already. I mean, we all know that sucker is going to sell for thousands of dollars. But at least I could feel like an ebay champ if only for a little while.

I do this quite often, especially with items I know will sell for outrageous amounts. I can already hear the cries of a lot of you guys. Well, let me ease your fanboyish hearts and minds. It doesn't really hurt or do any harm, since the outcome is inevitable and widely known by everyone, namely, that the particular item will sell for an absurd amount. So my small bid is merely a means to an ineluctable end.

It's fairly amusing to see yourself among the bidders for an item you have no intention of purchasing, especially for rare items. I get to be an ebay champ.

Anyway, anyone else indulge in the same past time?

:)

[Steven]

No.

I don't bid just for fun. I bid to win.

If I'm not in it to win a certain auction, then I leave it be. It's pretty jacked up to purposely spike a game's price. You say it's inevitable, but let the people bidding do that. One more reason I'm glad I'm out of the rat race, so to speak. And another reason why I don't bother with sealed games, lol

[GameNinja]

I guess it is all fun and games until you actually win an item you didn't intend to, realizing that you overpaid.

An unlikely scenario, but still possible if you misread the ad, etc.

[Edmond Dantes]

What the heck is Little Samson anyway and why is it so sought-after?

Ironically I once saw it at a rental and passed it up because it "didn't look interesting." Hindsight's a bitch, ain't it?

[Icarus Moonsight]

http://operatorchan.org/k/arch/src/k271041_oh-boy-here-we-go-again.jpg

[Kitsune Sniper]

Wow, way to be an asshole.

It's people like you that artificially inflate the value of an item.

[Zing]

While I do not agree with the "pastime" of bidding on auctions you have no intention of winning, it clearly does no harm here. In fact, its likely that none of the bids up to the point of 20 seconds before auction end have any impact whatsoever. For high profile items such as this, the winners of the auction place their bids in the last few seconds. Everyone else is just wasting their time.

People who proxy bid earlier do not bid the market value. If they planned to, they would just use sniping software or even manually snipe. Snipers bid to win, not to get a deal. You won't get a deal on something like this.

[jcalder8]

I have bid on things that I "knew" that I wasn't going to win but I have never bid more than I would want to pay for the item.

[allyourblood]

I thought you were banned.

[understatement]

While I do not agree with the "pastime" of bidding on auctions you have no intention of winning, it clearly does no harm here. In fact, its likely that none of the bids up to the point of 20 seconds before auction end have any impact whatsoever. For high profile items such as this, the winners of the auction place their bids in the last few seconds. Everyone else is just wasting their time.

People who proxy bid earlier do not bid the market value. If they planned to, they would just use sniping software or even manually snipe. Snipers bid to win, not to get a deal. You won't get a deal on something like this.

I don’t know if I can agree with that. I remember early in my Ebay career before I know what sniping was I bid on a game that went for $40~$50 and I put a bid of $80 on it I didn’t think it would go for more than $60 but long story short it ended at $81 because of me.

After that the game started going for $80+ the game was Earthbound, so sorry to everyone that wanted to get that game at $40 I fucked it up on Ebay.
The last part was a joke but the first part is true.

[skaar]

Bait not taken. Adieu.

[Rickstilwell1]

You have to remember, not all sealed games are worth jack. Tails Adventure for Game Gear comes to mind. The most I've seen it for is $150. Got mine for $125 here and only because nobody had a regular open box copy for sale anywhere. I will sell it only to someone who has a good condition open box copy to give me in return.

The stupidest thing to jack up the price of sealed would be any game for a Commodore system. You can get sealed games for that for like $10 because there were so many. Some idiot from Australia is trying to sell a loose copy of Ms. Pac-Man for Commodore 64 for $80 yet auctions end at $2-$3 all the time and I got my brand new copy for $10.

If you ever do get a game you didn't mean to, best solution is just use credit card or paypal Bill Me Later and make payments on it. Bill Me Later sends the seller their money right away and just bills you $35 a month with no interest. Since there is no interest, it's better than a credit card.

[portnoyd]

There's really no point now that they mask bidder IDs.

[Parodius Duh!]

Theres a few other buyers who always outbid me EVERY DAMN TIME I bid on something (like something is worth 20 bucks last second they will put a bid in of like $100 to make sure they get it), so I try to jack the price up on them as much as possible even if its something I dont want, as long as they are bidding on it. In some instances, I end up buying stuff at a price I dont want to pay or if its an item I dont want Ill buy it and re-offer it to the last bidder! I am an "Ebay Dick"

[Parodius Duh!]

There's really no point now that they mask bidder IDs.

I have a list of all peoples usernames who get in my way, from before they masked it. You just stay up to date with their feedback count and you'll know exactly who it is....or you can just 'search by bidder'


....and dont worry, its not video game stuff Im bidding on, but import DVDs usually.

[portnoyd]

Or you could put your time to more meaningful activities, for example, anything else.


Theres a few other buyers who always outbid me EVERY DAMN TIME I bid on something, so I try to jack the price up on them as much as possible even if its something I dont want, as long as they are bidding on it. In some instances, I end up buying stuff at a price I dont want to pay or if its an item I dont want Ill buy it and re-offer it to the last bidder! I am an "Ebay Dick"

Also, kill yourself.

[Parodius Duh!]

Im already dead inside, thats why I do stuff like this. Its only like 4 other people Ive done it to and believe me they fucking deserve it. Especially if you saw the way the act on another forum I frequent.....fuckin dirtbags get what they deserve.

[skaar]

Im already dead inside, thats why I do stuff like this. Its only like 4 other people Ive done it to and believe me they fucking deserve it. Especially if you saw the way the act on another forum I frequent.....fuckin dirtbags get what they deserve.

For you obviously aren't a dirtbag. Because you do it for the RIGHT reasons.

Sigh.

[kainemaxwell]

Auction hit 1k.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Little-Samson-Nintendo-BRAND-NEW-/280712640580?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item415bc6f844

[RCM]

Auction hit 1k.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Little-Samson-Nintendo-BRAND-NEW-/280712640580?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item415bc6f844

Didn't a sealed LS just go for over 5k? I like the game, but wouldn't even pay $100 for it.

[Oobgarm]

I think it's funny how people are here are revealing themselves to be complete douchenozzles and making it easy to avoid dealing with them. Re: chainsaw_charlie, Parodius Duh!

[XYXZYZ]

What the heck is Little Samson anyway and why is it so sought-after?

Because they only made like four copies and it's one of the best damn NES games I've ever played. I may have to get into making repro carts; I don't care about it's rarity and I just want a copy to play.

[BeaglePuss]

Didn't a sealed LS just go for over 5k? I like the game, but wouldn't even pay $100 for it.
It's the same copy.

It was returned to the seller with damage to the cellophane, so the original seller relisted it noting the damage. Having received sealed games from this seller, I have to say that his packaging job was rather poor. I'm not surprised that the game arrived damaged.

[mobiusclimber]

The difference is, only the auctions that have bids throughout the auction time are the ones that end with an inflated price. I've yet to see an auction that didn't have bids until the last few hours end at a price I thought was ridiculously high for what was in the auction. All those bids create a bidding war, whereas the people sniping are usually trying to get a good deal.

[tekfox212800]

So I bid $400 on the sealed brand new Little Samson currently up on ebay and yeah....I did it knowing fully well that there was no way in hell I would actually win it....but on a whim I just felt like raising the price.

But I thought, what the hell....let's get the party started already and jack up the price to $400 already. I mean, we all know that sucker is going to sell for thousands of dollars. But at least I could feel like an ebay champ if only for a little while.

I do this quite often, especially with items I know will sell for outrageous amounts. I can already hear the cries of a lot of you guys. Well, let me ease your fanboyish hearts and minds. It doesn't really hurt or do any harm, since the outcome is inevitable and widely known by everyone, namely, that the particular item will sell for an absurd amount. So my small bid is merely a means to an ineluctable end.

It's fairly amusing to see yourself among the bidders for an item you have no intention of purchasing, especially for rare items. I get to be an ebay champ.

Anyway, anyone else indulge in the same past time?

:)

thats ridiculous, you are the reason someone like me cant even get lolo 2 or 3 for less than 50 bucks. Every time i try to buy something on ebay, people will jack the price up beyond what its even worth just to get it.

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

So I bid $400 on the sealed brand new Little Samson currently up on ebay and yeah....I did it knowing fully well that there was no way in hell I would actually win it....but on a whim I just felt like raising the price.

But I thought, what the hell....let's get the party started already and jack up the price to $400 already. I mean, we all know that sucker is going to sell for thousands of dollars. But at least I could feel like an ebay champ if only for a little while.

I do this quite often, especially with items I know will sell for outrageous amounts. I can already hear the cries of a lot of you guys. Well, let me ease your fanboyish hearts and minds. It doesn't really hurt or do any harm, since the outcome is inevitable and widely known by everyone, namely, that the particular item will sell for an absurd amount. So my small bid is merely a means to an ineluctable end.

It's fairly amusing to see yourself among the bidders for an item you have no intention of purchasing, especially for rare items. I get to be an ebay champ.

Anyway, anyone else indulge in the same past time?

:)

Although I don't understand your motivations for bidding on items you're not going to win (see your user name on a list?), I don't think there's anything wrong as long as you pay for the item if you happen to win it. If you end up sending the seller an email saying "I didn't intend on winning this item, so I cannot pay you," it ends up creating a big mess with the seller who has to cancel the transaction and relist the item, potentially costing them money if the item doesn't sell for as much the second time around.

[buzz_n64]

Holy shit! These ebay assholes walk among us!?!? Bid to win or GTFO!

[Mayhem]

And here was me thinking the punchline to the thread topic was going to be "...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"

[skaar]

Troll thread is winning.

[Icarus Moonsight]

If you think this guy is an eBay asshole for what he bid for Little Samson, you should have seen what he offered for Big Delilah on Craigslist.

[Oobgarm]

Troll thread is winning.

Trolololo thread will ALWAYS win.

[vintagegamecrazy]

The OP basically needs to get a life and stop wasting his and our time! :onfire:

[Icarus Moonsight]

I think even if he were offered one, he'd get sniped by someone who values it more. :)

[fahlim003]

After that the game started going for $80+ the game was Earthbound, so sorry to everyone that wanted to get that game at $40 I fucked it up on Ebay.
The last part was a joke but the first part is true.

Is no joke... is truth although I got EB for <$80 recently off ebay so bloop.

[SparTonberry]

Yeah, I wish ebay didn't hide bidder IDs.
Then we could just let this guy win and laugh when he has to come up with the money.:popcorn:

[jonebone]

If you bid on an item and lose the auction, you can always find out who the winning bidder is. It's a work-around to get past that whole hiding of bidder IDs. Of course, you only see the winning bidder though, not everyone in between.

I also find myself losing to some of the same guys week over week, but I occasionally beat them too and that makes me happy.

[horseboy]

If you bid on an item and lose the auction, you can always find out who the winning bidder is. It's a work-around to get past that whole hiding of bidder IDs. Of course, you only see the winning bidder though, not everyone in between.

I also find myself losing to some of the same guys week over week, but I occasionally beat them too and that makes me happy.

Do tell. That would be some good info to have.

[portnoyd]

I'd think it was the whole bidder look up thing mentioned earlier:

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&userid=beyondtetra&completed=1&all=1&rows=50&sort=3&_rdc=1

[exit]

This is partially why I stopped using e-bay, if the games aren't horribly over-priced, there's idiots like this guy that inflate prices and make things more expensive than they need to be.

[jonebone]

Do tell. That would be some good info to have.


I'd think it was the whole bidder look up thing mentioned earlier:

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&userid=beyondtetra&completed=1&all=1&rows=50&sort=3&_rdc=1

Yeah, go to advanced searches, by bidder. Then enter your own username and check the "show completed listings" box. Any auction you bid on in the last 30 days will appear and show the winning bidder.

Only works if your bid registers. If you snipe and the price gets so high that your snipe never registers, you won't see who won.

[Zing]

whereas the people sniping are usually trying to get a good deal.

Speaking as a sniper, I bid to win at the lowest price possible, but I still bid to win. I don't bid to "get a deal". If I am sniping something, I am there to win. I set my snipe appropriately, usually high market value, or sometimes a ridiculous amount if I simply must have it. It is rare that I don't win an item I snipe.

[Parodius Duh!]

I think it's funny how people are here are revealing themselves to be complete douchenozzles and making it easy to avoid dealing with them. Re: chainsaw_charlie, Parodius Duh!

I dont sell on ebay, and I offer GREAT deals on this site, just look at my feedback thread, you fuckin douchenozzle har har har. I fuck with people that go on another site after winning shit and say things like "Well at least (insert name) didnt win it!" you know what, fuck those people, you gonna be a dick on ebay and then go on a forum and talk shit about beating other people and saying fuck them, well Fuck you!!!! you get what you deserve.

[skaar]

I dont sell on ebay, and I offer GREAT deals on this site, just look at my feedback thread, you fuckin douchenozzle har har har. I fuck with people that go on another site after winning shit and say things like "Well at least (insert name) didnt win it!" you know what, fuck those people, you gonna be a dick on ebay and then go on a forum and talk shit about beating other people and saying fuck them, well Fuck you!!!! you get what you deserve.

Quoted for douchery.

[InsaneDavid]

I think it's funny how people are here are revealing themselves to be complete douchenozzles and making it easy to avoid dealing with them. Re: chainsaw_charlie, Parodius Duh!

I agree but it's also nice that they've essentially red flagged themselves.


I dont sell on ebay, and I offer GREAT deals on this site, just look at my feedback thread, you fuckin douchenozzle har har har. I fuck with people that go on another site after winning shit and say things like "Well at least (insert name) didnt win it!" you know what, fuck those people, you gonna be a dick on ebay and then go on a forum and talk shit about beating other people and saying fuck them, well Fuck you!!!! you get what you deserve.

Weren't you supposed to be in desperate need of money to have your jaw wired shut or something? I'll chip in for that as long as it means your hands become inactive too.

[klausien]

I guess it is all fun and games until you actually win an item you didn't intend to, realizing that you overpaid.

An unlikely scenario, but still possible if you misread the ad, etc.

I hope this happens to any jerk like the OP who shill bids up an auction. Karma is a bitch.

[portnoyd]

I dont sell on ebay, and I offer GREAT deals on this site, just look at my feedback thread, you fuckin douchenozzle har har har. I fuck with people that go on another site after winning shit and say things like "Well at least (insert name) didnt win it!" you know what, fuck those people, you gonna be a dick on ebay and then go on a forum and talk shit about beating other people and saying fuck them, well Fuck you!!!! you get what you deserve.

Can't wait to deal with you in the future.

[Tommy Wiseau]

ha ha ha, what a story.

[ccovell]

This is why eBay's system needs fixing.... Yahoo Japan, on the other hand, is almost perfect in that if someone enters a high bid in the last minute, the auction gets extended 5 minutes, up to a limit. That way, people who want to bid the highest bid, win. As in a regular auction. Not like a game of Wild Gunman as eBay is.

[Parodius Duh!]

I have not done this in a long time anyway, years actually..... Oh and I did get the money for jaw surgery and a member here has an awesome package of games on the way to them! :)




......its amazing how easy it is to get people pissed

[MachineGex]

This is why eBay's system needs fixing.... Yahoo Japan, on the other hand, is almost perfect in that if someone enters a high bid in the last minute, the auction gets extended 5 minutes, up to a limit. That way, people who want to bid the highest bid, win. As in a regular auction. Not like a game of Wild Gunman as eBay is.

I always thought ebay should do this. Extend the time by 5 minutes, then 4 minutes (if needed), etc., etc., until it goes to just one minute(like a final call) and then it is over.

Or, just extend the time by one minute every time someone bids in the final minute. It would be like a real-life auction that way.

[kainemaxwell]

This is partially why I stopped using e-bay, if the games aren't horribly over-priced, there's idiots like this guy that inflate prices and make things more expensive than they need to be.

That and ebay's new change totally screwing with the My eBay pages a couple months ago for me.

[InsaneDavid]

not like a game of wild gunman as ebay is.

Fire!

[BetaWolf47]

Wow, way to be an asshole.
It's people like you that artificially inflate the value of an item.

You're right. Has to be them. Not the people who buy it from a thrift store for 50¢, then sell it on ebay for $80, forcing people who want to own the game to pay full price.

[Kyle15]

Wait, I thought this kind of thing bothered you?


I can't seem to purchase a single copy of Earthbound for the SNES on ebay without blowing about $120. Why!?! Because all these fanboy lemmings have jacked up the price because some other idiot told them the game is rare and valuable...

Don't be a fanboy lemming. ;)

[InsaneDavid]

Wait, I thought this kind of thing bothered you?



Don't be a fanboy lemming. ;)

Good catch! +300 Meseta.

[buzz_n64]

......its amazing how easy it is to get people pissed

You wonder why people get angry over this? You're screwing over collectors who truly want the games they're bidding for. Sometimes forcing them to bid higher than they wanted for a title they're after. One thing is sniping for a product you are desperate to get, another is making a game over someone elses stress. Although Ebay may be fun, it's not a game to some people, you're playing with people's emotions and possible collections.

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

Geeze, I hate people that inflate prices! Got a hole burning in your wallet? Don't make a $150 game $400, buy three games at freaking $150!

[kainemaxwell]

You wonder why people get angry over this? You're screwing over collectors who truly want the games they're bidding for. Sometimes forcing them to bid higher than they wanted for a title they're after. One thing is sniping for a product you are desperate to get, another is making a game over someone elses stress. Although Ebay may be fun, it's not a game to some people, you're playing with people's emotions and possible collections.

ebay is srs business.

[MarioMania]

I thought the guy is banned

[Parodius Duh!]

You wonder why people get angry over this? You're screwing over collectors who truly want the games they're bidding for. Sometimes forcing them to bid higher than they wanted for a title they're after. One thing is sniping for a product you are desperate to get, another is making a game over someone elses stress. Although Ebay may be fun, it's not a game to some people, you're playing with people's emotions and possible collections.

I understand this, but it had nothing to do with games, nor would I do it to any game collectors, it had to do with a few people involving dvds who would purposely outbid people because they didnt like them. Therefore I took it into my own hands to try and pay them back the easiest way I could. It seems stupid and Ill admit that it is. Regardless, I dont use ebay anymore and I have not for a long time, I was just stating that at one point in time I had done this to a few persons who I feel very well deserved it.

[Colorado Rockies]

ebay is srs business.

eBay is super cereal

[Icarus Moonsight]

I understand this, but it had nothing to do with games...

Keep going, you just might strike oil.

[SegaAges]

Oh man, this is like those VGA games that people actually pay for. People actually spent $200 for a VGA graded copy of OoT for 3DS

[Bloodreign]

http://cgi.ebay.com/TETRIS-sega-mega-drive-genesis-megadrive-md-signed-/130545774269#ht_500wt_1202?clk_rvr_id=250527200379

Here, go drive this up too.

[kainemaxwell]

Prove that you're not one of THEM anymore.

[Rickstilwell1]

Hey how about jacking my auctions up for me? hehehe. I'll do the same for you huh? (just kidding)

[kupomogli]

All those bids create a bidding war, whereas the people sniping are usually trying to get a good deal.

I snipe and that's it. The last 10 seconds(five or less if I'm on my own computer) I'll bid as high as I want to pay. I just think it's stupid when you look for a game and there are bids on it a few days before the auction ends and it's $30-40. Not sure if it's the sellers alternate account or people starting a bidding war with three days left.

To the op. That was a pretty dick move and I agree with Kitsune. You're an asshole. Little Samson might end at an outrageous amount, but there's always the possibility that your bid may end it at a price higher than what it would have ended at if it starts a bidding war.