OK - I have no clue what I am doing - please help?

[Katymac]

I found this on ebay for my DD

Now on 21st July I am going to Romford for a ballromm competition so I could drive down and pick it up

How do I ask the buyer if he could keep it until then?

How do I bid for it - I imagine it will go for a lot more than £150

I really haven't a clue

I don't know my password - I last entered it years ago

Oh shit

Hmmmmmmm.........maybe it wont then. Dont fiddle.

I have no intention of fiddling

How long I can leave it is debatable

8:20 I guess

maybe 23/25 mins past but def no longer

Katy why not use a sniper program?

Vrane is free for one snipe at a time and it will automatically bid your max in the last seconds of the auction

go and register now as it will take a little while

then enter your ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM - if you think you would pay £250 for it, imagine how you would feel if someone else bid £251. Would you wish you had bid £252? Keep pushing yourself up mentally until you know you have reached the absolute limit that you are prepared to pay.

then add on 27p or similar

good luck

You know what Katy

I want it now and I am a killer sniper

watch the sniper programs - ebay are trying to stop them by having random 'copy this number/letter sequence' thingie.

I'm the voice of doom aren't I?

do a manual snipe, then, if you have the nerve

have two windows open and keep refreshing one, while you have all your password etc details entered and ready in the other one just waiting to press "enter" at the last minute

I thought it would be good if I knew how much they were worth - so I started a thread (bit late I know- but anyway)

So I will work out my top price (by 8.25 hopefully)

Franny - that's what i always did - until last week when it asked for my id and password again - I lost

look on completed listings for worth

Shit

its at 210 at the mo

decide what you want to pay. Think about how much you want it, how often they they come up for sale etc.

Chip up the bidding now and then place your highest

good luck

Oh SLM oh dear

I just tend to use a sniping program but for something I was DESPERATE for I would probably do it manually

Katy a nice big max bid nearish the end (not necessarily in last seconds) is perfectly respectable and likely to get the result you want

if you don't win it, then someone else was willing to pay more than you, fair enough really

DON'T chip up the bidding

bid your max at the end

one bid only

They are worth abpout 600 - I can't afford that tho

bidder 1 went to 205 - i reckon that's his limit judging by his bidding history - you may be just up against bidder 2

Who is Bidder 2 (if they are on MN I'll kill em)

It isn't me Katy, I was kidding you

it does look fab, but I just wanted it to sit in the garden and fill with sand

There is a cheaper one without sails for doing that with

CRAP

Katy I live very close to the sea and near several sailing clubs, I can ask in our local chandlery if you want. That is if this doesn't work out. I am sure that they will know of someone who has something similar for sale or someone who can get one for you.

Are you bidder 3 Katy?

There's at least 2 of you watching it now

what's your max?

I am only another 45 mins from Romford

No I'm waiting (apparently)

Maybe 350??

Katy there are ELEVEN MINUTES TO GO

you need to know your maximum