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Originally posted by binhongman:
even though I must say I have no idea what there problem is with my suggestion. They said nothing that made even the least amount of sense in my opinion.

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Pretty much sums it up for me.

Welcome Crush and binhongman.

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Originally posted by Chatter:
Yes, his lack of grammatical and syntactic prowess

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Funny stuff.

Well, how do I put this without getting this forum’s grammatical/syntactic checker activated?

Here goes: Not everyone took the time to master “grammatical and syntactic prowess” – what ever that is.

Funny stuff.

Wow! Lotsa " 'tude" in this topic!

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Originally posted by binhongman:
I think Crushme4000 was a little hard on the chatter and Mrs. M. even though I must say I have no idea what there problem is with my suggestion. They said nothing that made even the least amount of sense in my opinion.

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Sorry if you could not follow. All I meant was that what you describe with your seller(s) did not hold true with my sellers, i.e., they do not necessarily relist items as automatically as yours did when no bids are received. I surmised that this varies greatly by seller and the types of items each one sells. Probably not enough for AS to set up such a scheme.

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And, I was NOT giving any opinion on the subject, rather stating the person misunderstood what Chatter said!! And this sums it up for me!

Mrs.M

You forgot to give examples.

Well hot dam, Puppy! At my age what do you expect? LMAO!!!!

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Yes, his lack of grammatical and syntactic prowess is matched only by his gall.

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Actually, I prefer unmitigated gall.

Hi Dave
I think your right. Glad to see you back.

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Wow! Lotsa " 'tude" in this topic!

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A pinch of tude,
and a dash of rude;
on both old and new.

Thank you, Jake. I had "lost" my job and did not have much time to come to the forums; plus, I took two different vacations during the past three months. "Lost" really means that my position was eliminated and I was transferred to another department; same job title, same pay, just no time to go online at work anymore. Oh, and the new job STINKS (I would have used a different word here, but....) big time!!! I used to get out on the road several times a week and now I am stuck in an interior room where the only window looks out on an aisle full of bus parts; not very scenic. Now I have a second line for the computer at home, so I can spend as much time online as I want. Hmmmm, that may not be so good! Especialy if ebay is one of the places that I visit!

DAVE!

Hi,
This topic caught my eye, because I know sellers who do what the OP describes, but my strategy is normally to do the opposite of what the OP wants to do!

I am trying to eke out a limited war chest, so, if an item is offered for less than I am prepared to pay, I don't expect to buy it even cheaper! Items offered up to 20% below my maximum are my top sniping targets. Then of course there is the option of asking a seller to add one or two recent unsold items to the one I have just sniped.

My experience is that I often see items fail to sell at reasonable prices, but, after sellers relist at even lower prices, they sell well above the original listed price.

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I think Puppy made an important point early in this topic. If you know that the seller always relists cheaper, why not just send an offer when you know he has an unsold item you want? You can keep within Ebay rules by asking him to "relist" at whatever price you want to offer.

Hello Rosetsu:

It seems like after a long hiatus we are returning to some semblance of real discussion.

I am not sure that I understand what your case is that is "an item is offered for less than I am
prepared to pay, I don't expect to buy it even cheaper". For me if I see something that is offered
for less than I am prepared to pay I would just bid (or snipe) on it. I guess the only time that
I would wait on a relist in this case would be if I noticed that many articles of this type or by
this seller got relisted for less when not sold. Then I might I guess try to "buy it even cheaper" especially
if only marginally cared about the article. However, This is not the case in the particular auction
which ends today that I am interested in. I thought the original $150.00 was too much and in this case I think
that the current $120.00 is too much and I don't think this item will be relisted less because of my analysis of
the behaviour of this seller over more than a few years.

I agree with your statement that I have also seen items which originally did not sell sell for more than the
original price when relisted. And I also like Puppys suggestion and your amendment to that suggestion of
buying on the QT and your way of doing it more within the Ebay rules. Thanks Rosetsu......

Now a little bit of discussion and a harangue. I need a spelling checker here and I am lazy. My expertise is in
Chinese art but I would say without reserveration that every piece of Chinese art (painting) (except by perhaps bad luck for the seller) sold that is supposed to be anything at all (I mean by somebody known) is a fake. In the normal
auction world Sothebys and Christies the number of good paintings is poor and on ebay it is non-existent. The paintings
which are done by Chinese (nobodies) are terrible. In contrast there are not many Japanese paintings sold that are
by known people. And the paintings range from poor to fair to not bad. In the case here that is the example for my
discussion this is a japanese painting by someone known. Probably with a 50% chance of being a fake. Therefore I
cannot really pay much for something I cannot examine in person. Thanks for your patience in reading this.
Love
to all sniper(ette)s.

It is really the way to buy. I cannot think of scenario where sniping does not assure you the
best price (except for a the rare missed snipe) and protects you against impulse buying.

We have asked for spell checkers many times with no avail, but if you will go to google and enter spell checker, you will find several good ones you can use here or wherever. Webster has a good one. http://m-w.com/ Of course it is not automatic as a spell checker would be that is incorporated into the program, but far better than nothing.

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I cannot think of scenario where sniping does not assure you the best price (except for a the rare missed snipe) and protects you against impulse buying.

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Funny, I was just thinking about this very subject and came up with one:

Dutch auctions

I just won one and it would not have mattered if I sniped; in fact, one might lose if one sniped in a Dutch auction as the first (or an early) bidder might win all of the items.

Sorry Dave, I don't get that. Sniping a dutch auction is actually easier than a regular auction because you can see all the bid amounts.

Pups rules for dutch auctions:

• Be sure you know how dutch auctions work
• Try not to bid on all the items.
• If you only want 1, bid your max, and bid late.
• Review bids 10 minutes before auction end

I just made that up, so the list might grow.

Yikes!! My best advise for Dutch auctions is DON'T!!! Don't snipe...don't bid! Lol! I just don't like them!

I think they are GREAT. Wish there were more in the stuff I buy. Very rare to see an old fashion dutch.

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Sorry Dave, I don't get that. Sniping a dutch auction is actually easier than a regular auction because you can see all the bid amounts.

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As I think I understand it, the LOWEST sucessful bid sets the price for all of the items, I will have to go back to ebay and read up on them. I just won a Dutch auction for 2 of the 25 items available and that is what brought it to mind. After checking, it turns out that I was the only bidder so I guess that it didn't matter.