Proper eBay etiquette

[yertle]

While trolling eBay this morning I found two items I was interested in bidding on but I'm fairly certain that a forum member has high bid on them currently. I assume that all public auction websites are free-for-all and treated as such. But I know what happens when one tends to assume and since I'm realitively new to these forums I just wanted to check and make sure that I wouldn't be somebody off if I was to bid against them.

[greggy]

Nah, just bid against them. Some members may make arrangements not to bid against each other IF the items is something that they really want! However, I doubt any of them would mind if you bid against them. Bidding them up just for fun may be a different matter!

[CosmicBob]

Unless it's Darth. Then we all track his bids and bid him up.

 

Just for fun.

[greggy]

Unless it's Darth. Then we all track his bids and bid him up.

 

Agreed! That fokker set a snipe and bid me up on a book WHILE we were chatting on MSN messenger once!

 

Cost me an additional $50+!

 

Unfortunately, he normally doesn't bid on anything that I want so revenge is kinda tough!

[Gorgo]

It happens quite often. One fellow collector (& occasional forum poster) & I were the only bidders on a book that is valued at Overstreet Guide at around $20. The book was slabbed NM & ended up selling for $150.

[yertle]

Thanks for the info guys. I'll keep an eye on the auctions and maybe I'll throw a bid down on the items right before they close.

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Bidding them up just for fun may be a different matter!

 

Nah, not my style and I don't use sniping software either. I do all my sniping the old fashion way. I set the alarm clock to go off at 3:00am and by 3:12 when the auction closes I'm top bidder, usually.

[swampie-migration]

I, too, snipe the old fashioned way...

 

I hate it when I stay up until some ungodly hour of the morning and *still* get outbid..

 

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swampie

 

 

[Darthdiesel]

Unless it's Darth. Then we all track his bids and bid him up.

 

Just for fun.

 

 

You dirty bunch! I hope you end up winning and enjoy overpaying for those Maxims...

[chrisfuccione]

This has happened to me I see an auction that I have a question on. it's a coin that I realy want and for one reason or another I put up a link on the coin side asking for advice. Another member see's it from the question I ask and he decides to bid on it. CHRIS

[Darthdiesel]

Don't put up links to items you really want

[chrisfuccione]

I learned that the hard way! CHRIS