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New Advice: Use a sniping service
bidnip has worked well for me. After spending a month trying to buy a car and losing several auctions in the last few seconds, I tried a free trial at bidnip and got the next car I tried for.




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New Re: Advice: Use a sniping service
If I were really serious about getting particular items, and if I weren't having so much fun with "white knuckle" bidding, I'd consider that. With over 10,000 cookbooks offered at any one time, I'll probably have other opportunities in due time. I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind digesting current purchases anyway.

Just won a Bulgarian cookbook, but against no other bidders (unusual because somebody puts an initial bid against most ethnic cookbooks to collect it in case nobody else bids). Anyway, if Bulgarian food is anywhere near as good as their sheep cheese, I'm interested (I understand it's related to Turkish, and I know that's good).

I did go up against a bid engine just recently on a German cookbook. Played with it a bit just out of curiosity (and forced the guy a lot higher then he probably expected to pay), but I think that's the only one I've hit.

For big dollar items like cars - I'd say it might be a necessity. I'll keep it in mind for future reference.
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New Hey, hey, it's BidWatcher!!!!
[link|http://bidwatcher.sourceforge.net/|BidWatcher @ sourceforge] or in Debian apt-get install bidwatcher. Might work in fink too.

I am using it, to bid on some thing I really want. It is configurable, understandable, you can start sniping as long as you like before the end, but they suggest 15-20 seconds. The Bidwatcher clock is syncd to eBay's clock, all info is push and pulled nicely.

I just used it for a hotly contested item. First Edition TSR Hobbies "Deities and Demi-Gods". There were a total of about 60 bids. I won. Out bid another proxy bidder right at the end.

Seems to work really nicely, with one exception. If the item you really want has zero bids on it. It will bid the next increment from the starting price. i.e. $500 0 bids, will end up being $510. Going to submit a bug soon.
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New Ah, but which one was it?
The "revised" edition, or the one with the Cthulhu pantheon?
Nobody wins in a butter eating contest
New If I told you...
I'd have to scarifice you to "He, who must not be named" or one of his Minions.

Verboten Copyrighted Material included and used without permission version, so the 'original' First Edition.

The one with line and greyscale art from the guy here in GR (Can't remember his name for the life of me), who does art for NWN now (and other games too)

Was the first place I encountered the Cthulhu "anything" when I was in 6th grade when it first appeared in the Hobby shop down the road from my middle school.

Branden Ogle and I were playing AD&D one day when Steve Banford came over to Brandon's house and he had it... We stopped playing and looked up stuff we had been wanting to know. Jealousy stepped in, for a while too.

I bought one about 6 months later... the Revised First Edition... with the BRIGHT Blue Smooth Cover. I was ROBBED! Of course I purchased, at the same time,the Original Dungeon Masters Guide with the "Cloth Cover" with a Full Color Efreet on it. Along with the Players Handbook and a Brand New Monster Manual! I purchased a few other things that day as well.

Remember those "sucky" scenarios, or premade campaigns... yeah, I bought 4 of them too. And 4 more sets of Dice with some additional ones for good measure. But eventually I made my own world and dungeons... truly a very good waste of time. I took everything with me when I left from Boot Camp leave. Sucks, cause I sold it all for $60 when I transferred. Didn't have room. I should boxed it up and sent it home.
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New Erol Otus?
Nobody wins in a butter eating contest
New Nopers, Todd (or Paul) something
Of course I could be WAAAAAY of base there.

He signed every piece with his initials and month-date (3-79 or 9-76, what have you)

His art look as real as black and white could. Highly stylized and he was VERY good at Fighter with Plate Armor on them, weilding a gargantuan sword or hammer typically.
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New Hmm, no idea.
Definitely not Erol, though. Of all the artwork I think of when I think of classic D&D, I always think of Erol's hallucinatory work.

Probably because D&D was the only hallucinatory substance I consumed during my childhood years.
Nobody wins in a butter eating contest
New I had that once
I think that I gave it away to my brother-in-law.

If I didn't, then it got lost somewhere because I haven't seen it in years.

Cheers,
Ben
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
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New Oh...
YOU ARE SOOOOO BAD.



























Unless, you didn't mean what I think you mean.
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New What did you think I meant?
1st edition Deities and Demigods, with Cthulu and Melibone. It was part of my brother's collection before he went to college. My brother gave it to me, I think that I sold it to my brother-in-law for some nominal fee, told him that it would be valuable some day. IIRC, he sold it to a friend of his.

Out of curiousity, how much is it worth now?

/me kept his first edition copy of The Silmarillion. Difference being, I'll read that again.

Cheers,
Ben
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
- [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]
New $78.05 is what I bid.
But, the seller hasn't contacted me yet.

This isn't going to be pretty. My user on ebay only has 1 feedback. I he tarnishes me... that'll be bad.

I have sent 4 e-mails now to the seller. One to the address on ebay for problems.

They contacted me back, no luck with him either. And he has 12 other auctions going this way too. And 10+ more ending soon.

Maybe he is sick or something.
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     Bidding cookbooks on eBay - (Andrew Grygus) - (12)
         Advice: Use a sniping service - (tuberculosis) - (11)
             Re: Advice: Use a sniping service - (Andrew Grygus)
             Hey, hey, it's BidWatcher!!!! - (folkert) - (9)
                 Ah, but which one was it? - (inthane-chan) - (4)
                     If I told you... - (folkert) - (3)
                         Erol Otus? -NT - (inthane-chan) - (2)
                             Nopers, Todd (or Paul) something - (folkert) - (1)
                                 Hmm, no idea. - (inthane-chan)
                 I had that once - (ben_tilly) - (3)
                     Oh... - (folkert) - (2)
                         What did you think I meant? - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                             $78.05 is what I bid. - (folkert)

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