Heritage and Comiclink - bidding from overseas

[Mio]

Queries for those living in an inconvenient time zone for these auction houses, do you:

 

- have a way of proxy sniping

- stay up super late to snipe live

- get up super early to snipe live

- bid your max bid early and let the Canucks and Yankies walk you calmly to your maximum

 

The older I get the less likely I am to want to lose sleep for funny books... and dreaming of a better solution

[miraclemet]

Nope... Im in the same boat as you (in Belgium). Missed on a book last year because I miscalculated the time to set my alarm for, and woke up 5 minutes after the lot had closed on CLink.

 

Looks like something called Gavelsnipe worked for heritage.

[miraclemet]

and from a very old post it looks like Gavelsnipe used to work on CLink but they were asked by CLink to remove the ability... and they complied.

[Gotham Kid]

Queries for those living in an inconvenient time zone for these auction houses, do you:

- stay up super late to snipe live

 

That would be me.

[Gotham Kid]

I miscalculated the time to set my alarm for, and woke up after the lot had closed

 

In that camp too.

[miraclemet]

sounds like we need a support group.

[Mio]

Queries for those living in an inconvenient time zone for these auction houses, do you:

- stay up super late to snipe live

 

That would be me.

 

Always very tempting, but when there are three consecutive sessions closing all during weekdays, I am more likely to miss out altogether.

[JayT]

When I lived overseas I'd just stay up if it was a book or art I coveted enough, same with ebay before sniping.

[tth2]

Queries for those living in an inconvenient time zone for these auction houses, do you:

 

- have a way of proxy sniping

- stay up super late to snipe live

- get up super early to snipe live

- bid your max bid early and let the Canucks and Yankies walk you calmly to your maximum

 

The older I get the less likely I am to want to lose sleep for funny books... and dreaming of a better solution

I've never been willing to stay up late to bid live or snipe. For highly sought after books, the benefit of sniping is completely illusory, because if you're sniping, odds are other people are sniping too and everyone's going to end up putting in their best bid. Your bid is either good enough or it's not.

 

I just put in my max bid shortly before internet bidding ends, and then go to sleep and check out the results when I wake up.

 

Again, for highly sought after books, this idea of the awake bidders walking you up to your maximum is illusory. They either want it or they don't, and they have their own ideas of the max bids they're willing to put in.

 

Think about it. If there's a book that's been sitting at $50, and lots of people want and everyone thinks it's worth at least $100, and I don't submit my $51 bid until the last nano-second, does anyone think that I'm going to win it at $51 because I waited until the last second? Or if I wait until the last second to put in my bid of $100, that I'm going to get it for significantly less than $100, because no one has time to walk me up? Of course not. Some other guys are putting in their bids of $100 and will either win it at that price or push me up.

[Sqeggs]

And, of course, with Heritage you can't snipe anyway because it's a live auction.

 

As was recently brought up in another thread, there's something to be said for putting in your max bid on Heritage and ignoring the live bidding, lest you get carried away and spend more than you should. Spoken from sad experience!

[AJD]

Queries for those living in an inconvenient time zone for these auction houses, do you:

 

- have a way of proxy sniping

- stay up super late to snipe live

- get up super early to snipe live

- bid your max bid early and let the Canucks and Yankies walk you calmly to your maximum

- watch it and bid while at work

 

The older I get the less likely I am to want to lose sleep for funny books... and dreaming of a better solution

 

[mrc]

 

Is there a reason that Clink auctions end on Tuesday's? If they ended on the weekend then surely that would attract more overseas bidders.

[miraclemet]

Is there a reason that Clink auctions end on Tuesday's? If they ended on the weekend then surely that would attract more overseas bidders.

 

probably to not compete with HA.

 

They're probably afraid that should they be ending same time they'll lose eyes and dollars.

[Mio]

Is there a reason that Clink auctions end on Tuesday's? If they ended on the weekend then surely that would attract more overseas bidders.

 

For sure! Even when I lived in Canada, I was often stuck at work whilst the bidding closed

[Duffman_Comics]

Queries for those living in an inconvenient time zone for these auction houses, do you:

 

- have a way of proxy sniping

- stay up super late to snipe live

- get up super early to snipe live

- bid your max bid early and let the Canucks and Yankies walk you calmly to your maximum

- watch it and bid while at work

 

The older I get the less likely I am to want to lose sleep for funny books... and dreaming of a better solution

 

 

I'm telling.

[Dick Pontoon]

Is there a reason that Clink auctions end on Tuesday's? If they ended on the weekend then surely that would attract more overseas bidders.

 

Clink auction end times are spread out over several days, often Tues-Thurs, sometimes Tues-Friday.

[krighton]

That 19.5% fee for winning an ha auction really seems a bit greedy

[miraclemet]

That 19.5% fee for winning an ha auction really seems a bit greedy

 

I think it's been shown repeatedly that the net affect on prices for the winning bidder is nil.

 

(in otherwords bidders factor the fee into their bid, and HA even does it at the time of bid so you can see it) If there was no fee (like in CLink) the bids would just be that much higher.

 

 

[Mio]

That 19.5% fee for winning an ha auction really seems a bit greedy

 

I think it's been shown repeatedly that the net affect on prices for the winning bidder is nil.

 

(in otherwords bidders factor the fee into their bid, and HA even does it at the time of bid so you can see it) If there was no fee (like in CLink) the bids would just be that much higher.

 

 

True, it is made clear to the bidder what their high bid will be including the buyer's premium. Auctions have also been conducted that way for centuries. It really only hurts the seller - unless a special arrangement has been made in advance with the auction house.

 

But in any event, I demand auction close at a convenient time of day/week for ME (!)

[mrc]

Is there a reason that Clink auctions end on Tuesday's? If they ended on the weekend then surely that would attract more overseas bidders.

 

Clink auction end times are spread out over several days, often Tues-Thurs, sometimes Tues-Friday.

 

....yeah, but the only books worth having are in the first half of the alphabet!