He cost me $58 with 3 minutes to go!!!
I bid the $150 about 3 days before the auction, just to "mark my territory." The min bid was $150 anyway, so I hoped it might discourage anybody here that knew me. (It didn't, completely, bot HotFix is new here and I've not been posting much lately, so I can forgive him
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About 3 hours before the auction ended I thought I was going to have to leave the house for a while, so I bid up to 202.56 (If I remember right) just in case.
Then I found that plans were cancelled and so I sat by the PC for the few hours, with the auction page open and pressing F5 every few minutes. I was doing other stuff in the meantime.
With five minutes to go I began to give it my earnest interest.
With three minutes to go HotFix began bumping it up a few bucks at a time. With about a minute to go I decided how much more I wanted to go. I tried to buy one of these at full price last spring at $300+ dollars so I decided to bid up to $250. After my bid went in, I think HF bid one more time (I'm at work and can't check it since it's blocked) and that was it. I got it for $208.00
If I hadn't thought I was going out earlier, I've have waited until 20 seconds then bid $225 and probably could have gotten it for $160.
When it comes to sniping on Ebay, I'm an old hand. I've lost a few in that game, but I almost always win. 8)
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