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Post by waywardmonk on Apr 27, 2014 12:55:26 GMT -6
Had a funny thing happen today. I was watching an eBay auction all week for an item I rarely see and was very excited about the possibility of picking up cheap. It was set to end today and I set the alarm on my phone for 10 minutes before to try and snipe it. The alarm went off while I was busy with family and forgot about it until about an hour later. Quite upset, I looked the item up and saw that someone got it for the $5 starting price. Man I was kicking myself good for not putting down a reasonable bid last night as I sometimes do when it's something I really want. I was not a happy camper. Fast forward another hour or so and I check my email to find that I was the winning bidder. I had put down a minimum bid early in the week and forgot about it... xD I couldn't stop laughing at myself.
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Post by figurecollector on Apr 27, 2014 17:17:06 GMT -6
It has not happened to me as I rarely bid any time other than a last second sniper, but it is a funny story about how we forget things.
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Post by spockoda on Apr 27, 2014 18:03:45 GMT -6
Well this has happened to me, more or less. I bid on a loose Star Wars AT-ST on ebay years ago thinking I had no chance and forgot I bid on it until I got an email saying I had won it, much to my surprise. I've had 95% of what happened to you happen to me a time or two, except I had actually forgot to ever bid on the item and someone else got it cheap.
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Post by defzombie on Apr 28, 2014 15:13:09 GMT -6
I have done the same thing with the same intention. I have won things by setting alarms, but I have also forgot about cheap auctions and unlike you I forgot to bid and therefore it goes to someone else for a great price. after awhile I forget about it and move on, but its def. a kick myself for not bidding for a few minutes.
A few years ago I bid on a game boy advance Breath of Fire II that ended on Christmas day, I bid on it sometime during the day knowing others would be busy. I won it for a pretty cheap price. The auction ended while we were in the middle of opening presents with family haha.
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Post by WishItWas1984 on May 23, 2014 23:07:58 GMT -6
LOL...that is pretty funny, but no that's never happened to me.
However what seems to happen more often than not...that pisses me off to no end...is that I try and remember to snipe an auction and life gets in the way and I forget or can't get back to it....and then find the auction went for an awesome price.
Yet if I do make it, I'm more often than not in a sniping war with 1-3 people.
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