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So today at 9:20, a great tragedy struck.

So all week, I was looking forward to Sunday, 8:59, when the bidding would end for a, get this, shrink-wrapped, sealed, complete Dragon Warrior Monsters for the Gameboy color. I reminded myself all week, and all day to go bid and cash in on this amazing opportunity. Well, come 7:30, I sounds a lot like time to play No More Heroes. (amazing by the buy, buy it. Seriously DO IT! Support originality!!) So I kill Destroyman, the 7th ranked assassin, in a super-sweet-sweetness fashion. (you have to see it to believe it) So I'm just chillin' in the city, did a few mini-games, killed some people in assassination missions, then as I'm driving to the bar to cash in on some Lovikov balls to learn a new technique, it hits me. I forgot my auction! I frantically throw the screen up on my laptop and boot her up, but by the time I got on eBay, the auction was no where to be found...It was a terrible loss. I love Dragon Quest more than my own children I don't have, and my Dragon Quest Monsters is horribly mangled from when I *accidentally* removed the cart from the Gameboy when it was still playing, corrupting the game, so now every time you try to save, the game glitches out and the screen turns to a bunch of weird symbols. (which change on different Gameboys, which is interesting)

Yes, it was a grave loss, and there will always be a new offer, but an offer as good as that one might never happen again. I'll never forget the little item that could, the item I'll never hold in my arms, the item I'll never know...I could go on, but since half of you reading this porobaly won't get this far, I'll stop.

That's why you use proxy bidding instead of sniper bidding! At the very least, use a sniper bidding program that does the dirty work for you, but really, might as well just proxy bid.

I know, it's jsut that I don't like auto-bidding, because two people auto-bidding against each other raises the price a ton when you aren't there. Anyway, a new item is up, so I'll get it this time.

Is it better to pay fair market value or not bid at all because you forgot to sniper bid?

(sniper bidding, if everyone is proxy, won't help you anyway, because the guy with the proxy will win, if he's using the system appropriately)

Why not sniper proxy?

XD

That way they don't have time to bump up their bid.

Is that... possible/legal?

Legality is simply guidelines.

:3

Don't get me wrong, I was going to put in an auto-bid price kinda thing, it's just I don't the like the idea of paying 50 for a gameboy color game, so to answer your question, yeah, I think it is better to pay a fair price than to win at all costs.

You distorted my question. To pay fair market value is to bid at the beginning of the actual the absolute maximum that you are willing to pay, and let proxy bidding keep your current bid at no more than whatever someone else is willing to pay. You have to figure out your absolute max and bid that immediately. If someone outbids you, whatever, you weren't willing to pay that much anyway. If you outbid someone else with a sniper bid, you would have outbid them during the proxy bidding, assuming they bid their max to begin with, which they should have since that is the system. Thus, if you are using proxy bidding correctly, you get the same outcome either way, except with sniper bidding, you run the risk of forgetting it is there and have the trouble of having to wait on it before you can bid (you have to be there with it or get an automated system that may or may not work). If the proxy system denies you, then you have no chance to redo, as you tried last minute.

The only reason I came back to this thread was to point out that this *just* happened to me. I bid $33 on an item that stayed at its start price of $14.99 up until 22 seconds before the auction ended. Someone sniped-bid for 28.51, but the proxy system kept me in the lead at 29.51. Thus the auction ended and I won for less than my max ($29.51 instead of $33) on an item work 2-4x that price. Had all the idiots not waited until the last minute, they may have remembered to bid early to see if they wanted to pay enough to take the high bid from me.

Had you sniper bidded on the game that started this thread, you still may not have gotten it, unless your sniper bid was more than the high bidders max, which an early bid would have done the same thing for you, but now you'll never know. One thing is for sure... the guy that *didn't* sniper bid got a great deal.

I wish eBay would just add extra time to any auctions that get last minute bids, to discourage all of the non-sense.