Is there any reason to be sure they are being honest? Maybe they’re scamming you to get the item for cheaper. I’ll bet this would be a good technique to get discounts.
You sniped away his/hers mother’s Christmas present??!?
Wow…you really are a wart on the asshole of society!
I used to buy some stuff on Ebay…mostly nostaligic stuff I had as a kid.
I noticed that if I entered a true maximum bid…then I would usually win very near that price. I started to get suspicious that the seller was somehow finding out the info and raising the price to right below it so he/she would get the highest possible price from me. Therefore, I stopped using that feature.
I never had any luck doing that either.
A few years ago I came up with a method to determine someone’s maximum bid, I forget what it was, but it was something like bidding above the high bidder in 10 cent increments until your bid wasn’t turned down, but I was still able to back out. Not sure if you can still do that, but maybe that’s what someone is doing to you.
Why would that work? I’m not the seller, I bought the item, and I’m not selling it to anyone else. Fuck him and his mother.
Probably… I think I tried this and found another way…start with aweird bid, like $xx.84…and raise in $1 increments until the allowed bid was less than $1 above or something like that (this was long ago and memory is fuzzy). I was (and am) convinced that sellers could find my max bid because of the bidding behavior of items I won versus items I lost.
If I had to take seriously every moron who threatened me, I’d have to live in a castle with a moat.
Out of curiousity, why would anyone bid on an item at any other time than right before the auction closes?
I suggest the OP craft his letter as such:
Dear Loser,
Don’t worry. Your mother and I will be enjoying our new [item] shortly. Please don’t come up out of her basement if you happen to hear any “happy noises” from upstairs.
By the way, I’m your real father.
Warmest retards,
pkbites
AMATEURS.
What kind of spoiled whippersnappers mash Refresh?! I just open the bid page a few days early and then start counting.
I’m pro-sniping, not that I’m actually all that good at it. It’s exactly like having an auction that takes 10 days, but instead of getting all the maximum bids slowly, they zip in in the same minute or two. Still, the highest bidder wins it, and no one has to pay more than anyone else was going to.
If you’re not sniping, however, your best chance will come if you set a maximum bid that’s a good ~15% more than the displayed bid, because snipers will aim based on that. The instant rebid can usually handle it unless it’s someone who just wants it more.
Also, to the OP - There are lots of funny things to say to Mr. Internet Butthurt, but if you want to take the (possibly) high road and consider their internet detectivism to be harassment, then this page may help you: