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!
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.
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.
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.
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Holy shit! These ebay assholes walk among us!?!? Bid to win or GTFO!
And here was me thinking the punchline to the thread topic was going to be "...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"
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.
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The OP basically needs to get a life and stop wasting his and our time!
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I think even if he were offered one, he'd get sniped by someone who values it more.
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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.
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.
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I'd think it was the whole bidder look up thing mentioned earlier:
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&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.
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