Aaaaaaargh!

[Drewk86a]

It was bad enough that I missed out on several dual jersey and patch cards for my PC becaquse I forgot to check the auctions. (they all sold for less than $3 each!)

you'd think I would learn. Yet here we are less than 24 hours later and I missed out on a 04/05 Upper Deck HG Glossy #'d to 10 for the same reason! Thought I'd be clever a snipe the auction, but I missed the closing!

Aaaaaargh!

[roaddogg02316]

Gotta get it together lol. I wouldn't admit being a snipe bidder if I were you. People don't like that kind of stuff. Although it probably is perfectly legal people don't like it.

[centrehice]

Anybody with any buying sense is a Sniper, that's the only way to go.

Everyone on here that is seriously looking for a cards Snipes, and everyone else on here knows it and does it themselves.

Snipe away in style.

[flopfish]

Anybody with any buying sense is a Sniper, that's the only way to go.

Everyone on here that is seriously looking for a cards Snipes, and everyone else on here knows it and does it themselves.

Snipe away in style.

+1. Everyone's looking for the steal on their PC card or a good trade bait card... unless it's them selling it ;)

[centrehice]

A pre-auction bid certainly draws more bidder attention than an auction with no bids, and nowadays with the down-turn in card buying on eBay you can very often win by placing a bid days in advance, butstill, there is nothing more exciting than the Snipe.

In about 2003, I had two guys go on a sniping binge for one of my Patrick Roy inserts that was very scarce, but had a simple BV of $12.00. When the smoke cleared, it sold for $32.00.

Those days are mostly gone now in the lower priced auctions.

Check this out. I have this 00-01 Paul Coffey listed and ending later tonight. The Card itself is number #100 in the set, but simply because I have it listed as such #100, It has one bid, & I have already had 12 different people click on the auction, with 2 watchers.

eBay has brainwashed them into thinking that every time they see this ......#100 that it's actually serial numbered to #/100 when in fact it's not, nor have I misrepresented it as such, it's simply card number 100.

It is a scarce card in the sense that OPC Chrome was not produced to even half the level that Topps Chrome was for that same year. I might get a little action on this later.... here's the link

http://www.ebay.com/itm/140754682718...#ht_500wt_1035


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Here's the link

[30ranfordfan]

Sniping is the way to go. Even if there is 6 days left in the auction, just put one on.You can change that down the road if you want.

[bloodrabbit]

I'm usually a snipe bidder myself. Though lately i've slightly changed the way I do that as I was watching a Berezin 1/1 and a day later it had disappeared. I emailed the owner and he had told me the card was no longer for sale, probably meaning it sold locally or someone had made he a "behind the scenes" offer. Now I doubt I will ever see that card again, or at least not for some time. Now, I tend to put in a starting bid, just to make sure the card remains until the end.

I feel your pain on waiting as well. I've probably lost 3 cards or so simply forgetting about the auction. Kinda sucks and for some reason I let it happen 3 times.

[Frendo]

Since I started to snipe I didn't lost that many PC-cards like earlier when I wasn't sniping , but sometimes tough because of those time differences between NA and europe...

BUT, I lost quite many huge PC cards just because I overslept and forgot to wake up (or at wrong time) to sniping or bidding, almost every times the cards ended up at ridiculously low prices like $20-22 for a /10 memorabilia & autographed card 2 times at short time with same /10 card.... aaargh!

[redwingsfan11]

ohhhh boy, i was sort of in the same boat yesterday. I was watching an Anze Kopitar Cup Enshrinements rookie year auto /50. I told myself the day before to REMEMBER to put a max before i leave to school. The next morning i leave my house and head to the train only to recognize i forgot to put my bid. only to find out later that day it went for a measly$15 !!!. Major ***facepalm***

It would have been my first cup card too -_-

[dble_g2k]

Why not snipe? You can put in a snipe offer in your program, and then go back and change it, even reduce it. Ebay won't let you do that. Don't get me wrong, if you really want the card put in a placeholder bid, but I wouldn't max out my bid by any means except in my sniping program.
Simply a tool of the trade nowadays, and shouldn't be frowned upon. Heck, we put items up for auction, we don't have any control over what happens in the last 24 hours if there's a bid, or the last 12 regardless. It's a risk of how we choose to do business.