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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: Reptile on Sun, 29 January 2012, 12:58:46
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEYBOARD-SPACE-SAVING-SPACESAVER-CLICKY-MODEL-M-1391472-/320834868532?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab33f9534#ht_500wt_1413 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEYBOARD-SPACE-SAVING-SPACESAVER-CLICKY-MODEL-M-1391472-/320834868532?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab33f9534#ht_500wt_1413)
Looks to be in pretty good shape. 9 hours left with no bids at $100
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DONT YOU POST THAT HERE. I WAS ABOUT TO WIN THIS.
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Haha I would be be bidding on it but I just got one :-)
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yeah i still need one, after i THREW ONE AWAY years ago before i knew anything about keyboards
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yeah i still need one, after i THREW ONE AWAY years ago before i knew anything about keyboards
ouch
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yeah i still need one, after i THREW ONE AWAY years ago before i knew anything about keyboards
That should be a banable offense.
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yeah yeah. not a day goes by that i dont kick myself for it. which is why i want this one again, so i can lay my nightmares to rest.
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yeah yeah. not a day goes by that i dont kick myself for it. which is why i want this one again, so i can lay my nightmares to rest.
It's okay. Several moons ago we gave our Commodore 64, software and perfectly working disk drives (!!! this is the important part...) away to a school. Then roll around to the early days of ebay and saw what they were going for. Especially those drives. :(
I guarantee the school sold them and that's what feels the worst about it.
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you may have mentioned it in passing.
i should stop drawing attention to this thread if i actually want this.
oh well too late.
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Aww man, sweet! A SSK! Just what I've always wanted! Totally bidding on this!
(Just kidding. I've sold 3 of these in the last 6 months.)
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Wow, it's from 1987, so its' in great shape for it's age. I'm not going to bid. Gonna be nice and let 500_pts have this one :)
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Aww man, sweet! A SSK! Just what I've always wanted! Totally bidding on this!
(Just kidding. I've sold 3 of these in the last 6 months.)
HAHAHA... seems like we have any early bidder on it. I expect to see some sniping at the end though.
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Wow, it's from 1987, so its' in great shape for it's age. I'm not going to bid. Gonna be nice and let 500_pts have this one :)
awfully nice of you :)
we shall see what happens ;P
HAHAHA... seems like we have any early bidder on it. I expect to see some sniping at the end though.
that bid is me, i might be going out later and unable to avoid late bid snipes, so i had to put one in now
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good luck with your bid!
it's such a lovely keyboard
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Listen, folks, take it from a guy who has bought and sold hundreds of items for thousands of dollars on ebay:
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DO NOT BID !
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SNIPE ONLY !
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I promise you, that if you decide, in advance, what you are truly willing to pay for an item, and put in a snipe at that price, you are more likely to win, at a lower price, than if you bid the same amount.
There are always exceptions, and ebay will always put in the highest bid AFTER the highest snipe, but making a formal public bid is simply the same as "showing your hand" in a card game.
Trust me. Try it 10 times each way, controlled, scientifically.
Heck, prove me wrong, if you can. But I do not believe that you can.
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PS - on any item that I, personally, am bidding on, disregard the above advice and put in your maximum bid as early as possible.
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Is stating obvious facts in an overly dramatic manner considered trolling ?
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Is stating obvious facts in an overly dramatic manner considered trolling ?
I wouldn't say it's "obvious" especially from experience: It happens so frequently! Foghat.Digs' heart is in the right place.
My method is to wait for it to fail to sell (with no bids) and contact the seller later for low prices.
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Trolling? fohat is putting money in noobs' pockets!
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yeah i simply didnt have the time or means to snipe, lost the bid by 12 bucks
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you guys could always go for this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-Model-M-SpaceSaver-Clicky-Keyboard1391472-Unused-Original-Box-/220941446713?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item337122ee39#ht_500wt_1413
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Is stating obvious facts in an overly dramatic manner considered trolling ?
It is when the person who bid said:
that bid is me, i might be going out later and unable to avoid late bid snipes, so i had to put one in now
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go to auctionsniper.com (http://auctionsniper.com) and just sign up.
I think that you may have to put up maybe $5 (via Paypal) to open an account, but you only get dinged for "pennies" and only when you win. Or you may even get your first couple of snipes free.
seriously, unlike everything ebay/Paypal where they bloodsuck the seller dry every time a transaction goes through, Auction Sniper is dirt cheap and very reliable.
I put in $5 about once or twice a year and that usually covers me fine.
it is a serious bargain and your only defense against the ebay/Paypal juggernaut.
Or not.
just bid the old-fashioned way and keep losing and/or paying too much. no point in staying pure when everybody else is gaming the system.
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Oh, wow. This is actually the one that my brother bought for me. Sorry, 500_pts.
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Hmm, I snipe manually and have never failed :)