# Damn You To Hellllllllllll **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455 "2002-12-13T05:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/1 "2002-12-13T05:58:02Z")
1 FUCKIN’ MINUTE LEFT IN THE GOD DAMNED EBAY AUCTION AND YOU COME IN AND OUTBID ME WHEN MY BID HAD STOOD FOR THREE FUCKING DAYS YOU BALLSACK-PUSTULE. I HATE YOU FUCKER!!! ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/2 "2002-12-13T05:59:50Z")
OH NOES! ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/3 "2002-12-13T06:01:16Z")
ROXx0r H|5 B0xOr! ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/4 "2002-12-13T06:03:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by apotheosis \* > \*\*ROXx0r H|5 B0xOr! \*\* BAN! BAN! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/5 "2002-12-13T06:07:11Z")
Watch it! l33t can only fuel my rage. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/6 "2002-12-13T06:17:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Watch it! l33t can only fuel my rage. \*\* You must become _one_ with the l33t. (Behold, the [English-to-l33t](http://68.46.231.224/e2l.cfm) translator! Go me!) ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/7 "2002-12-13T06:19:41Z")
I’m L33t. Where in the world is SmileyDeath? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/8 "2002-12-13T06:27:39Z")
Wrong direction, **apotheosis**. ---
**Author:** ![Bubba\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bubba\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba_Ray)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/9 "2002-12-13T06:28:11Z")
d00d, Yu0 Go75 Pwn3d!!!111!1!!1!11! ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/10 "2002-12-13T06:30:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Wrong direction, **apotheosis**. \*\* You’re right. Sorry. It’s tough being the middle child…not enough time on the board to be in the Cabal, but too many posts to be a hyperenthusiastic newbie. I’ll behave. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/11 "2002-12-13T06:32:20Z")
A minute? You get sniped by _an entire minute_ and you’re pissed? Heathen has nailed the sucker in the last 6 friggin’ **SECONDS** p.s. - what else are you bidding on? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/12 "2002-12-13T06:35:35Z")
You posted a bid three days before the auction ended? It’s people like you that drive up the prices on stuff for us snipers, you know. Three days. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/13 "2002-12-13T06:41:43Z")
Seriously. Sniping is the only way to get stuff on eBay. The only time I bid outside of the last 20 seconds is when I’m out of town. Three days. You’re kidding, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/14 "2002-12-13T12:40:53Z")
You want “Leetspeak”? **I gotchyer Leetspeak right here!** Leet speek is un eseenine-a, druuleeng, joofeenile-a perferseeun ooff oooor glureeuoos Ingleesh lungooege-a. Dreefeling inffunteele-a ideeuts inffect oooor oonce-a-grund Streeeght Dupe-a Messege-a Buerd veet thees tvet-soockeeng tveddle-a, zeen groont, belch, let oone-a fly, und zeen beleeefe-a zeey deserfe-a zee Nubel Preeze-a. Grunted, thet’s a Merreeed Veet Cheeldree qooute-a, boot zeese-a flyveet essdregger Leetspeek tveets resemble-a zee Boondys beyund uny hupe-a ooff deescernment oor identeefficeshun. Mey ell Leetspeekers defelup Herud’s Ifeel, tepoourms, und tex oodeets! PS-Frudu Fur Preseedent in 2004! The Swedish Chef knows all! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/15 "2002-12-13T13:34:35Z")
I have dial-up! The pecker-head slipped in while I was refreshing on my super-slow connection. I was bidding on [this.](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=745933247&ssPageName=ADME:X:BN:US:2) I’ve been trying to find one for about 4 years now. The search continues. If only the seller had used “Buy This Now” option, I’d have it now! ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/16 "2002-12-13T14:11:03Z")
Was this your first attempt at winning an Ebay auction? I lost on my first attempt too…never after though 😉 . I love sniping because I can bid without the emotional component that causes people to bid an item up like crazy and then regret later on for paying too much. But, if I was going to bid on something 3 days out, and I had been looking for and desiring that item for 4 years; I’d pull out all the stops and put a proxy in so high that all the snipers in hell couldn’t hit their mark. But that’s just me, YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/17 "2002-12-13T14:16:28Z")
I got screwed on my first auction, too. Plus I was a nervous wreck, all spazzin’ out and screamin’ at my computer and shit. There’s that auto-bid thing that automatically ups it by $2.00 or something, up to a certain limit, isn’t there? We don’t do a lot of e-bay, but we like it a lot! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/18 "2002-12-13T14:16:54Z")
It was my first auction in about 2 years. I don’t remember the snipers from then. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/19 "2002-12-13T14:31:18Z")
Mmm…sniping. It’s the only way to bid. I always laugh when I’m sniped out, or even better, sniped and I win anyway (even though I end up paying more). ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455/20 "2002-12-13T14:34:31Z")
I do a lot of buying on E-BAY and I do not snipe, I figure out what the item is worth to me, subtract the shipping and I bid that amount (and no more), that process saves me from getting “auction fever” and over bidding and if I “lose” an auction I know at least that the other guy overpaid (I know my markets very well, thank you), I have placed bids a WEEK before the auction ended and won, now sometimes I run across things that I “must” have and if/when I have lost them it was because someone wanted that item more than me, and yes I DO make money on (some) of my EBAY deals. unclviny (who has ALL POSITIVE FEEDBACK) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-to-hellllllllllll/142455.md?page=2)