Does anyone else have an eBay arch nemesis?

[Raccoon Lad]

There's this bidder, who has more money than sense, or possibly just doesn't have ANY sense at all, who just kepps getting in the way. It's not that this guy's outbidding me, (which isn't typical), it's just that this guy's there, bidding on the auction, at least an hour before it ends, repeatedly putting in small bids that drive up the auction price. How many bidding wars will this guy be in with other NOOB's before he learns to PROXY bid?! This guy's there at nearly EVERY auction I'm interested in. AAAARRRRGH!! he's like a super eBay NOOB, but he isn't a noob, he's got 75+ feedback!

Seriously, it's like I'm Jerry Seinfeld (Why do they call it "tooth paste", it's not made from teeth, and have you EVER tried to glue anything with it?!), and this guy's my Newman.

Anyone else have one of these eBay arch-nemesis?

[Dobie]

Yeah, there's this guy Racoon.... something. Always snipes my auctions after I bid up the price against newbs. Seriously, I bid on these auctions for an hour, over and over, and he takes it away at the last second!

Seriously though, there is one guy I see a lot, but he has more money (or a lot less sense) then I do, so I rarely even bother bidding on those auctions.

[digitalpress]

Actually I used to bump into lots of forum members in the past, but we've either come to agreements or I've steamrolled over them - it depends on how "cooperative" they were.

One that comes to mind is "ianoid". We were bidding on the same things many times for awhile there. Fortunately we've gone our separate ways, collecting-wise. =)

[jaybird]

I've been caught in the crosshairs of sylentwulf's sniper rifle more than once.

[portnoyd]

Ask D_N_G about justus@attbi.com... they goddamn stalk him. :0

dave

[Darth Vader]

I've been caught in the crosshairs of sylentwulf's sniper rifle more than once.

Yeah I have gone up against him a couple of times, I don't have a fast connection so I have a little disadvantage. If you are looking for SNES games, I will more than likely be competition if it is something I don't have (only 50 more games to go! )

Danny

[Ikari Warrior]

"andre herreta" for driving up all the Bonk 3 CD prices!

[Raccoon Lad]

Heh, I KNOW that feeling! Back over a year ago when I was looking for Ninja Gaiden SMS, there was a small drought of this game for a while, when not 1, but 3 of them show up on eBay within a few days of eachother, a single NOOB buys ALL 3! Needless to say, he temporarily drove the price of that game up by 200-250% for the next month or so.

[dave2236]

Darth Vader has sniped me a few times. Other thatn that sosafan has driven up prices and mydogsrule too.

[Darth Vader]

Darth Vader has sniped me a few times. Other thatn that sosafan has driven up prices and mydogsrule too.

Dave has great taste in auctions! :P

Danny

[portnoyd]

"andre herreta" for driving up all the Bonk 3 CD prices!

andre_henretta is a goddamn moron. Thank god he stop collecting NES.

dave

[Bratwurst]

I could have sworn there was an Andre character buying up several Little Samsons in a row at one point on ebay. What was up with that?

[BigBoogie]

I sniped an auction and got this email. btw the subject was "You're a Douche"

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I can't believe you outbid me with 6 seconds left you douche.

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[chadtower]

I've been caught in the crosshairs of sylentwulf's sniper rifle more than once.

Mine is sylentwulf too, but for a different reason. I like to peruse the listings looking for heavy items that are local to me, things that people wouldn't want to ship so they may not bid as much. Sylentwulf lists hundreds of things, in my region, all of them tiny individual lots or toolkits or things I'm not looking for... so I always end up looking at 500 Sylentwulf lots to find the 5 nonSylentwulf lots I'm looking for.

[Darth Vader]

UPDATED:

ladyofvines is really starting to piss me off!

Danny

[icbrkr]

UPDATED:

ladyofvines is really starting to piss me off!

Danny

Hmm... I thought she was just pissing me off. Where is she getting all this INTV stuff?

[mumbai]

Where is [ladyofvines] getting all this INTV stuff?

Good question. Perhaps from the same place she was getting the ColecoVision items she had six or so months ago...

[Slipdeath]

there this guy called t619 or something that beats me on all my genesis bids, by the way hi im a noob

[rbudrick]

I used to get beat a lot...not by anyone in particular though. Then I discovered esnipe.com, thanks to other DP members (Thanks to all, btw).

Esnipe has saved me thousands, probably. Screw bidding wars. If I want something badly enough, I place a huge snipe bid....I rarely get beaten now. I used to get beat in almost every auction until Esnipe....so, sorry if I am someone's arch nemesis....I probably am though. Hey, you shoulda bid higher than me!


-Rob

[1bigmig]

The FurryF*** who started this thread.

Oh, and making 1bigmig pay $75+ for a game that usually only tops out at $40. Revenge is sweet.

That's cool, good luck getting one with the uber rare instructions. If another comes up I will bid AU$70.08 out of spite I coolly passed on the other water damaged (or just overally ratty) one you won.



See you in the future as I imagine we're both getting down to the same uncommons / rares

How many auctions did I drive the price up for you? I know there was a few. Did you seriously bid twice just to try and make me pay more? I normally would never bid before the last 10 seconds of an auction, but I didnt trust myself to get up to an alarm after only sleeping two hours. It was ending at 3AM here. Looks like it's almost time to join esniper or something like that.