eBay rant

[95riosnake]

I have to rant a little. I just lost an auction for a set of 94-95 Saleen taillight bezels on eBay. Mind you I have been the high bidder for 6 days, and spent the last hour of the auction checking constantly. In the very last second, some a**hole outbid me by $1. The thing is, how did he know my max bid? I checked it like 2 seconds before it was over and I was still high bidder, but then I refresh the page and he has outbid me by $1. The current bid was $17 below what my max bid was, so how did he know to bid $1 more? This pisses me off, obviously some jerk using some sniping program, I hope he puts the bezels on his car and wraps it around a tree. I have been lookin for these bezels forever and came so close to finally getting a pair, damnit.

Oh well, sorry for the rant guys but I've been pissed off all afternoon about this.

 

[rebelleader]

I know how you feel, but if you put your max bid as X and the item sold for X+1 you shouldnt care because you didn't want to spend X+1.

 

[STM1965]

I can relate, I've been bidding on a factory boot cover for our convertibles since early in the year, each time somebody runs the bidding way up for a used part. Kinda crazy, but if somebody wants to drop a 150 US on a top cover good for them, because I'm not. I just keep searching the wreckers & local swap meets till I get one.

 

[rebelleader]

I can relate, I've been bidding on a factory boot cover for our convertibles since early in the year, each time somebody runs the bidding way up for a used part. Kinda crazy, but if somebody wants to drop a 150 US on a top cover good for them, because I'm not. I just keep searching the wreckers & local swap meets till I get one.

Does a 99-04 boot cover fit your car? If it does May have one for you, and it would be way cheaper than $150. Shoot me a PM

 

[legalize420]

i lost an auction last night on a set of taillights where some did the same thing but luckily there was anoter set ending 3 hours later. i do that if i really want something. bid in the last couple of seconds. someone must have put in a higher max bid and it automatcly out bid you.

 

[The Green GT]

His max bid was prolly alot higher than yours, eBay wont increse it but a dollar or so unless someone beats you then it will increase to what it needs to for them to be ahead. If you would ahve bid another dollar he still would have prolly won.

 

[whitesnake1994]

In the very last second, some a**hole outbid me by $1. :

thats how you are supposed to bid on ebay. otherwise when people bid early the price goes up and up. it is SOOOOO STUPID to bid before like 30 seconds left. stuff would be so much cheaper if everyone did it. i hate people who bid early unless it is something I am selling.

ya lets say your max bid was $100 and with two seconds left he bid $150 he would win the item and pay $101.

 

[The Green GT]

Can you give me a link to the auction/ Ive never really seen saleen tail light bezels.

 

[95riosnake]

I see what you guys mean then, my max bid was about as much as I was willing to put into them ($60, not really sure what they are worth), but I'm still pretty disappointed...I was really pumped to get them.

Can you give me a link to the auction/ Ive never really seen saleen tail light bezels.

here is the link to the auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=8058494059&sspagename=STRK%3AMEDW%3AIT

 

[juiced_94gt]

hey man just paint your bezels black!!! thats all saleen bezels are. It's also what i did to my last lights.

 

[Roland69]

I was that ***hole lol





































J/K but I have lost auctions like that too so now I wait till the last 30 seconds to bid now.

 

[Stangfreak95]

I have won many auctions that way. I have a connection which is faster than average I'm sure and I picked up at least 10 auctions in the last 10sec or so. I also lost a few that way...Thats what you have to do man.

 

[69clark]

Ebay calls it Proxy bidding, where it automatically bids to the next spot above the previous bidder unless the bid is smaller than the previous bidders bid. Make sense. I have stole alot of things this way but I have also had it happen to me quite often.

 

[RIO5.0]

I feel for you....2 yrs ago I lost a Saleen intake that way....I had that mother til the last minute...Some homey bid it up in 2.00 increments til he found my price, then scored it...I was BS and didn't us Ebay for 2 yrs...
I'm a "Buy It Now" person now...Screw bidding, can't stand it..
Thats how I just bought my bike on Ebay...I seen everyone bidding it up and hit the "Buy It Now" button...

 

[MysteryMachine]

lol thats what I try to do. If I really want something I bid like the last 10 seconds and keep hitting refresh. Unless I know its something nobody else will want like the part I'm bidding on for my bike

 

[rebelleader]

....Unless I know its something nobody else will want like the part I'm bidding on for my bike

What part is that? Do you have a link.....

 

[Nik_95Cobra]

How much did they wind up going for? I wish i would have ordered 2 sets when I got mine in case something happened.

 

[MysteryMachine]

What part is that? Do you have a link.....

why wanna bid it up? lol is a part for a 69 Yamaha Enduro 125 doubt anybody else is gonna want it. Well I hope

 

[95riosnake]

How much did they wind up going for? I wish i would have ordered 2 sets when I got mine in case something happened.

$61 + $10 shipping, my bid was $60 lol. I am not givin up quite yet, but these are hard to come by.

As far as painting my bezels black, I don't think it looks the same. I like how the Saleen bezels sharpen the edges of the lenses, looks more aggressive to me. Plus, if I get tired of the black bezel look, all I have to do is take the bezels off instead of repainting my tails back to rio red.

 

[Nik_95Cobra]

Yeah they deffinately give it a meaner look than just painting the stockers.