AllenBomber
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Just picked up a tested (and hopefully still working when it arrives) NEO GEO MVS board (1 slot) with an Art of Fighting cart for 45 bucks. Hooray for multi-game #2 in my collection.
Ebay makes us crazy though... First, I'm of the opinion that those ebay snipe programs are a bunch of crap. I do it the old fashion way.
It will be like 1 am, and I'll stumble across something finishing in like an hour. Of course when I find it, the bid is either low or nobody has even touched it yet, so I sit and stalk the item. I'll tell myself that I'll lay down a bid if it looks like it will finish low, but I'm always convinced that someone will run up the price within the last 45 seconds. Despite this, I always hold out in the hopes that it's one of those rare occasions (like tonight) where nobody else can find the deal that I've found (or they've just forgotten about it). I start by casually observing the price but begin refreshing the auction at an exponentially increasing rate as the clock clicks down. I'll try to find other things to do, but there's nothing worse than getting distracted and forgetting about a snipe, only to find that your item finished WAY cheaper than you expected. I end up staring it down for about the last 2 or 3 minutes, debating over exactly when the right moment to make my bid will be. The bid has to be late enough that "outbid" emails don't have a chance to make it through the servers (so only another sniper would notice my bid), but early enough that you have a few seconds to consider bumping your bid if it wasn't enough. 40 seconds... too soon. 30; things are getting really tense, and my heart starts pounding. 20... 15... Okay, time to pull the trigger. Then refresh second by second from 10 to finish just to be sure that the sniper hasn't been sniped. God, this site makes me insane. Anyone else share my insanity?
Ebay makes us crazy though... First, I'm of the opinion that those ebay snipe programs are a bunch of crap. I do it the old fashion way.
It will be like 1 am, and I'll stumble across something finishing in like an hour. Of course when I find it, the bid is either low or nobody has even touched it yet, so I sit and stalk the item. I'll tell myself that I'll lay down a bid if it looks like it will finish low, but I'm always convinced that someone will run up the price within the last 45 seconds. Despite this, I always hold out in the hopes that it's one of those rare occasions (like tonight) where nobody else can find the deal that I've found (or they've just forgotten about it). I start by casually observing the price but begin refreshing the auction at an exponentially increasing rate as the clock clicks down. I'll try to find other things to do, but there's nothing worse than getting distracted and forgetting about a snipe, only to find that your item finished WAY cheaper than you expected. I end up staring it down for about the last 2 or 3 minutes, debating over exactly when the right moment to make my bid will be. The bid has to be late enough that "outbid" emails don't have a chance to make it through the servers (so only another sniper would notice my bid), but early enough that you have a few seconds to consider bumping your bid if it wasn't enough. 40 seconds... too soon. 30; things are getting really tense, and my heart starts pounding. 20... 15... Okay, time to pull the trigger. Then refresh second by second from 10 to finish just to be sure that the sniper hasn't been sniped. God, this site makes me insane. Anyone else share my insanity?

