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eoinzy

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hassleham

The worst one i've had I didn't even get a chance to bid. The guitar was put on ebay with a very vague title and description and so it wasn't detected by the various email notifications that I have set up. I found the auction only one day after it had ended on £270. By the end of the week it was for sale by that twat in essex for £1200. I was kicking myself!

drofluf

I was outbid yesterday on a regular auction site - mouse seemed to freeze and site wouldn't accept my bid

SteveRobinson

eoinzy said:

No bids. 9 secs left. Went £70 over starting price. Outbid. No time to react. Endless misery...

Why didn't you bid the maximum you were prepared to pay?

Adey

Wise words indeed!

prlgmnr

SteveRobinson said:

eoinzy said:

No bids. 9 secs left. Went £70 over starting price. Outbid. No time to react. Endless misery...

Why didn't you bid the maximum you were prepared to pay?

You can't just go giving this away at the start of an auction. guaranteed to drive up the price.

TTony

I have “an interest” in Kawai guitars.  That started out as an interest in a very specific model - KS11XL in natural.

Back in the early noughties, I had an eBay search set up for Kawai (still do), and the exact model appeared for sale.  Looked pristine, original (from early 80s) case, etc.

As it happens, my good lady had just bought me a birthday PRS SE, which I was loving.

Price of the Kawai was going up, and up, and up, and I eventually bailed at ~£500 on the basis that I could buy another PRS SE for that sort of money, and they’re great guitars.

As soon as the listing ended, I started kicking myself.

Over the following few years, I set up the Kawai website, tracked down lots of other guitars & owners worldwide, and bought just about every Kawai that I found for sale.  Eventually, I found another KS11XL in natural too.

Would winning that original auction have sated my Kawai interest?  Perhaps.  If so, bidding an extra £100, £200, even £500, would have saved me the probably-£10k that I spent on all the others.

Though that did buy me probably the largest Kawai collection in the world

TTony

PS, the one on the left ...

eoinzy

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mrkb

prlgmnr said:

SteveRobinson said:

eoinzy said:

No bids. 9 secs left. Went £70 over starting price. Outbid. No time to react. Endless misery...

Why didn't you bid the maximum you were prepared to pay?

You can't just go giving this away at the start of an auction. guaranteed to drive up the price.

I don’t think Steve was implying that. Just bid the maximum youre prepared to pay 10 secs before the end of the listing. If you don’t “win” then walk away happy that it went for too much money.

Note - you don’t “win”, you’re just buying an item for money.

DB1

I was just on my way back from Nottingham one night, having dropped off an Eastman 403CE to a chap there. I'd got my on a Gibson Lucille - I already had this one, but noticed that the auction started at £1100 and had two bids and was around £1120, so I watched it.

Anyway, it still hadn't had any bids about fifteen minutes before the auction ended, so I called into a fairly local pub that was twenty minutes away from my house, as I wouldn't have made it back in time. Settled down with a beer, and thought I'd put a bid in of £1600 about fifteen seconds before the end of auction and leave it at that.

So I did - just as the wireless connection dropped out. It went for £1120, with no more bids. Fortunately, I was brave and didn't cry. *

* Until I got home.

mbe

TTony said:

PS, the one on the left ...

I like the headstocks. Très Japonaise 

eoinzy

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eoinzy

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Pabcrane

hassleham said:

The worst one i've had I didn't even get a chance to bid. The guitar was put on ebay with a very vague title and description and so it wasn't detected by the various email notifications that I have set up. I found the auction only one day after it had ended on £270. By the end of the week it was for sale by that twat in essex for £1200. I was kicking myself!

A random twat in Essex? Or is there a known twat in Essex who marks up guitars 300%?

Stuckfast

I saw an original Marshall 8x12 listed on eBay once for £70, BIN.

By the time I hit BIN someone else had got there first.

Grangousier

@Pabcrane It is a reference to a specific twat. 

ThePrettyDamned

prlgmnr said:

SteveRobinson said:

eoinzy said:

No bids. 9 secs left. Went £70 over starting price. Outbid. No time to react. Endless misery...

Why didn't you bid the maximum you were prepared to pay?

You can't just go giving this away at the start of an auction. guaranteed to drive up the price.

No, you wait till a few seconds from the end, then put in the maximum you're prepared to pay. If it goes over, no pain. If under, you did better than that were prepared. 

hollywoodrox

I won an auction for a Baltimore orioles baseball signed by players for 99p and the seller reneged on the deal , no one else was interested in it , but seller just clammed up. People like that ruin auctions , if he wasn’t prepared to gamble he should have listed it fixed price 

eoinzy

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Pabcrane

hollywoodrox said:

I won an auction for a Baltimore orioles baseball signed by players for 99p and the seller reneged on the deal , no one else was interested in it , but seller just clammed up. People like that ruin auctions , if he wasn’t prepared to gamble he should have listed it fixed price

Is that against the rules? I'm not too au fait with eBay selling Even if it's not it's a pretty shitty thing to do. I can understand if you have the item listed somewhere else, such as the classified ads here but not with an auction. Having said that a baseball probably wouldn't readily fit under any of the categories here...