Anti-Snipers must love this...

[ArAich]

 

I lost a book on E-bay today and it really pissed me off. (yes I did lodge a complaint to ebay). As I was in the process of sniping a book I entered a bid at the last seconds of the auction. My bid was too little and I had time to enter my final bid amount...but wait... a stupid pop-up appears and totally messes up my timing. Hence the bid was entered too late and I lost the book (my final bid was enough to win the book).

Damn, I lost a nice book and the seller got less money. What is Ebay thinking???!!!

[g-man]

what was the book?

[greggy]

I guess you haven't bid recently. You could have just opted out of that contest and not have those annoying pop-ups show up. BTW, what makes you think that you would have won?

[ArAich]

 

Let's just say that it wasn't a high end book but the grade was nice and the price was right.

It's actually the principle of me (or anyone else) loosing an auction because of this pop-up that ticks me off.

[ArAich]

 

I am pretty sure I would have won because I was was battling the same bidder on similar books by the same seller. I won the other auctions because my final dollar amount was generally more than he was willing to offer in each case .

[BronzeBruce13]

I don't like the damn thing either and did not realize you could dismiss it.

I've been waiting for it to go away. I'm going to try now.

 

Go ahead an at Ebay... we didn't ask for that

[keithdagen]

PopUp Killer software is a must these days.

[Bonds25]

I opted out a week ago and the damn things started popping up again today.

[greggy]

Must be just you because you are such a repeat bidder!

[greggy]

You better do it or your last minute snipe on the Defenders 1 may not go through!

[C3Galaxia-migration]

Hi greggy,

 

I was bidding on an auction Sunday that I lost, but it wasn't because of the pop-up. I agree the pop-up is very annoying. Maybe it is a new scheme being utilized by Ebay. I have been thinking about using the new Opera browser because I think it allows you to block pop-ups and it is also a lot faster and lighter than IE. I think the new Mozilla browser may do the same. Maybe that will work for you?

 

[NativeNewYorker]

My advice is to get Norton Personal Firewall. It will not only protect you from hackers, but also stop pop-ups.

 

Ted