I bid on my first ever ebay item today. That Zinn book. Told me my bid was so crap I didn't even count. Ebay sucks.

Ha ha! You suck! How did they know you had a plastic bike?

I notice Maj.Taylor has come back to the BF fold. Another prima donna who just couldn't resist seeing if he was missed.

You bid 3 times, and still no luck. You gotta wait until the last 10 minutes to bid. Anything before that is a waste. Besides which, it's psychologically dangerous to bid too soon. Put it on your watch list, and wait until the last minute.

OH !

This guy really knows how to market his used jersey -
"I wore this jersey only twice (washed once)"

Eh? How'd joo know that? You friggin Neo from the ebay matrix or something?

Since you know so much, do you know what the max bid is? Seems like it's to expensive already.

Another thing. How come it was only registering a top bid of $15 or something when I bid more than that and it said others maximums were higher. Why didn't it display the highest bid maximum? How do you make that ******** $15 figure display something more realistic?

Ebay is gay.

Yeah, I noticed that. The friggin old hypocrite.

Oh. While I'm spamming. Why isn't the kuywuy thread over here in foo as well? Preferential treatment huh?

It's called proxy bidding. You put in your max bid, and a giant computer attached to Keanu Reeves head (trust me, he's not using it for anything) automatically bids up to that in small increments whenever someone else places a bid. Problem is, someone already bid a higher amount than you. You can put $30 in, and if no one bids more than, say $24.57, you'll get it for $24.57. If they bid $25.57, the computer (remember, Keanu doesn't need his head) bids again for you, up to your max. The important thing is to wait until the last day or hour, and bid your max, plus 59 cents, and be done with it. You bid 3 days before it ends, and then you form an attachment, you start to daydream about this book, or new pedals, whatever, and it causes you to get foolish and overbid at the last minute. It takes patience, and you gotta be honest with yourself about how much you want to spend. Trust me, I've done it hundreds of times.

P.S. Keanu's gay, which lends some credence to your observation.

Ah. So my bidding did put the final price that some dude's paying up? I didn't have a look at what the advertised price was after I got the sh1ts. I'd love to find out what that maximum was to bid 1 cent underneath it and punish him for bidding to high.

Anyway, I've popped my ebay cherry now. So I'll work on developing a mental illness over it in due course.

[Edit] Oi. What's that little glowing man next to my name? Does that denote a loser noob that doesn't know what he's doing?

Yeah, each time you bid, he had to cough up a bit more. If you inch it up a buck at a time until you pass him, he'll outbid you at the last minute. Spiteful bastard!

Oooo. I might get stuck with an $80 book, but it would be fun.

So do you know the answer to the question in my edit from the previous post?

Member since: Dec-20-04 = ebay noob = little orange dude. I think it's only there for 30 days.
Your nemesis also won a book called GARDENING EXPERTS PRUNING PLANT GROOMING ROSES ETC !!! as well as Team Saeco red LOOK PP396 pedals.
Yes, I'm nosy. I worked for an insurance company for almost 10 years. It was my job to track people down and find out things about them, then sue them, or send 'em to collections, or just piss em off. Heaps fun!

He sounds weird. Probably needs the book to work out how to put those pedals on his roses.


No wonder you live in Australia then.

Yeah, damn cut-rate witness protection program...

[edit] Actually, I'm here because I stole one of your wimmin, remember?

Excuses excuses. More like she's really an assassin working for those you put away trying to lul you into a false sense of security. The ony day when you are finally relaxed and think you're in the celar she'll bump you off and claim her bounty.

Does she know that's how you tracked her down to holidays in New Zealand? And all this time she thought she meeting you was a fate/kismet/dharma thing... craft b@stard.

Um, no. We met online and I sent her a plane ticket to meet me in NZ. She played indoor cricket, now rides bikes. You guys must hate me.

Aww. Okay. I'm sorry. The whole episode trully does sound like a fairytale fit to make a grown man weep with joy. You're a lucky man indeed.

Yeah, jealous as all bug-gery.

Nah, reallly I am a romantic. Good on you.

So tell me, are you fair dinkum about meeting on line? How? You don't have to get too juicy, but give us the low-down for those of us who are... well.. available.

Aw crap, go to matchmaker dot com, and do the trial thing for a week or whatever they offer. I know a girl that signed up for a year. Hmmm. Pessimist, or looking to fill out her yearly calendar? Just be honest. And post a photo unless you look like Costa.

Costa? Or do you mean Kostya?

Not the boxer, the bald guy.

Yay the Aussie Thread is now in Foo so i can post in it!