# Help with eBay bidding strageties

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-ebay-bidding-strageties/8982>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 26, 1999, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-ebay-bidding-strageties/8982 "1999-09-26T22:41:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 1999, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-ebay-bidding-strageties/8982/21 "1999-09-28T18:00:00Z")

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El Hubbo and I thought we’d gotten scammed on eBay too. We bought a Microsoft Office '97 CD ROM for $30.00. Two weeks later, we hadn’t received it and I started writing e-mail. Got a total of five replies - two saying it would be at our house in a week, one saying that the seller found out that the CDs were pirated and was procuring new ones, then two more saying it would be at our house in a week.

_Two months_ after the auction ended, we got our Microsoft Office '97 CD ROM.

_Two months and two weeks_ after the auction ended, we got another one.

Woo-hoo! Well worth the wait!

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Most common question I ask: “What?”  
Most common question I get: “Are you really hearing impaired?”

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**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-ebay-bidding-strageties/8982/22 "1999-09-29T07:58:00Z")

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I got a nice set of kidneys, but got sniped on the newborn baby.

Damn.

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“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument” - William McAdoo

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**Author:** ![makphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@makphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/makphisto)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-ebay-bidding-strageties/8982/23 "1999-09-29T12:22:00Z")

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HubZilla,  
ROFL!!!

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**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-ebay-bidding-strageties/8982/24 "1999-10-07T21:07:00Z")

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Well, I’m up to my old E-bay tricks again…  
I recently got:  
Audiobook: “Walter Cronkite- a reporters life”

a Citrus Express for $7 (including shipping)

an Electric Knife for $6,  
and in 20 minutes I’m going to try to snipe someone and get a Lands End fleece jacket I’m eyeballing…wish me luck (I feel so sneaky doing that)

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Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.  
[http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html)

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**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 1999, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-ebay-bidding-strageties/8982/25 "1999-10-07T21:27:00Z")

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Well, I guess I’d better get that program! I tried to snipe- and got sniped myself! lost the auction…I hate that!

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