I've been tracking an item.
The top bid was $21 and I bid $42 when 48 seconds were remaining.
Little did I know the top bidder was monitoring the item real-time. He bid 4 times in those 48 seconds and my winning bid skyrocketed from $21.50 to $31.00
It's still within my budget (obviously, I bid $42 for god's sake), but not optimal.
Bleh.. next time I'm waiting until I hit 10 seconds mark...
Quite sad the bid ended on a Saturday, 2 non-business days I just have to wait...
Auction ended at 2:12 pm. Sent payment and contacted seller about payment, seller's reply received at 2:21 pm.
Well, I guess there's an upside to having an auction end on a Saturday too. Not all sellers can reply within 10 minutes of auction end time everyday.
P.S. Text below are majorly rant. Don't read if you don't want to, nothing really productive. Bashing a seller.
I think why the new ebay rules kicked in. I checked the buyer's feedback who retaliated me with negative when I left a neutral.
S/He calls buyers an "idiot" and "moron" (exact quote, several times) in replies, makes fun of buyer's typos, leaves comments like "Buyer lies", etc.
I skimmed through his feedbacks and apparently his selling "cases that are cut" as "factory sealed". It's amazing how he gets 99% positive.
Putting "BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED" in the title and writing cases are damaged in the middle of a wall of text is quite deceiving.
"Clearly states" my ass, fucking learn to press enter.
OKAY PEOPLE SO THIS IS AN EXAMPLE SENTENCE YES SENTENCE NOT A PARAGRAPH BECAUSE I AM NOT GONNA PRESS ENTER JUST LIKE THE SELLER AND CREATE A WALL OF TEXT AND HIDE A CONFLICTING INFORMATION IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS JUNK LIKE I SAID BAD STRATEGY IN THE TITLE BUT NOTE THAT IT WAS GOOD AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT CLEARLY STATES MEANS I MEAN IT IS FREAKING HARD TO CREATE A WALL OF TEXT THAT IS FOUR LINES AND ALL IN CAPS WHEN I PREVIEW POST I DON'T GET AS NEARLY LONG POST AS I WAS HOPING FOR ANYWAY IF YOU'VE READ UP TO THIS POINT YOUR EYES MUST BE QUITE SORE AND I HAVE WRITTEN ENOUGH TO CREATE FOUR LINES I BELIEVE SO YEAH I'M GONNA FINISH THIS PARAGRAPH UH NO SENTENCE WITH A FULL STOP THERE YOU GO BAM.
Yeah, very clearly stated huh.
BTW, if you've spotted the "clearly stated contradiction" that's just an example, it was still a bad strategy.
The top bid was $21 and I bid $42 when 48 seconds were remaining.
Little did I know the top bidder was monitoring the item real-time. He bid 4 times in those 48 seconds and my winning bid skyrocketed from $21.50 to $31.00
It's still within my budget (obviously, I bid $42 for god's sake), but not optimal.
Bleh.. next time I'm waiting until I hit 10 seconds mark...
Quite sad the bid ended on a Saturday, 2 non-business days I just have to wait...
Auction ended at 2:12 pm. Sent payment and contacted seller about payment, seller's reply received at 2:21 pm.
Well, I guess there's an upside to having an auction end on a Saturday too. Not all sellers can reply within 10 minutes of auction end time everyday.
P.S. Text below are majorly rant. Don't read if you don't want to, nothing really productive. Bashing a seller.
I think why the new ebay rules kicked in. I checked the buyer's feedback who retaliated me with negative when I left a neutral.
S/He calls buyers an "idiot" and "moron" (exact quote, several times) in replies, makes fun of buyer's typos, leaves comments like "Buyer lies", etc.
I skimmed through his feedbacks and apparently his selling "cases that are cut" as "factory sealed". It's amazing how he gets 99% positive.
Putting "BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED" in the title and writing cases are damaged in the middle of a wall of text is quite deceiving.
"Clearly states" my ass, fucking learn to press enter.
OKAY PEOPLE SO THIS IS AN EXAMPLE SENTENCE YES SENTENCE NOT A PARAGRAPH BECAUSE I AM NOT GONNA PRESS ENTER JUST LIKE THE SELLER AND CREATE A WALL OF TEXT AND HIDE A CONFLICTING INFORMATION IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS JUNK LIKE I SAID BAD STRATEGY IN THE TITLE BUT NOTE THAT IT WAS GOOD AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT CLEARLY STATES MEANS I MEAN IT IS FREAKING HARD TO CREATE A WALL OF TEXT THAT IS FOUR LINES AND ALL IN CAPS WHEN I PREVIEW POST I DON'T GET AS NEARLY LONG POST AS I WAS HOPING FOR ANYWAY IF YOU'VE READ UP TO THIS POINT YOUR EYES MUST BE QUITE SORE AND I HAVE WRITTEN ENOUGH TO CREATE FOUR LINES I BELIEVE SO YEAH I'M GONNA FINISH THIS PARAGRAPH UH NO SENTENCE WITH A FULL STOP THERE YOU GO BAM.
Yeah, very clearly stated huh.
BTW, if you've spotted the "clearly stated contradiction" that's just an example, it was still a bad strategy.
bc my attitude is "cutty"