Sat on an auction that was $5 for several days for a PS1 lot with Persona. Bid sniper came along to ruin my day at 3:59, but I GOT THAT FUCKER BACK. What are your best last-minute bidding stories?
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=9854374
Here's the auction in question. No one saw the auction had Persona for the first few days, as it had zero bids, so I was hoping to nab it for maybe $20 if only one or two people saw it on the last day. Some guy tried to rip the auction out of my hands, but my last minute bid increase was more than his by a dollar, so I won the auction. $15 shipping will be a bit painful, but I can sell what I don't want to my local game store.
I know stuff like this happens occasionally, so what are your guys' best eBay/shopgoodwill/etc. last minute bidding stories? We've all had our good and bad days, today just worked out in my favor.
Posted May 2, 2012, 11:12 PM UTC
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It was early September 2011. My boss had been talking up Super Metroid for almost three months. He pestered about when I was going to get it. He offered to let me borrow his copy, but I refused. I wanted my own.
Nine, ten, eleven weeks go by and my grail is not found, or even merely spotted. Flea markets, thrift stores, Craigslist, even retailers are dry. I let him know it is no where to be found and he suggests eBay as if it were obvious. And it was, however I had viewed eBay as the cheaters way of collecting.
After another week I had given up on finding it out in the wild. But if I have to resort to eBay I am going full on CiB or bust. I stumble across a few "buy it now" reaching from $50 to nearly a disgusting $100.
No way.
I'm bidding
I run by some auctions and find a young posting with no bids and 6 days remaining. Opening price of $0.99. I place my bid. not an hour later someone bids me up to $1.49. This has just become war. I set two alarms on my phone, one an hour prior, one 15 minutes. I put the game on my watch list and wait six days.
I come back and the bid has jumped to $6.00 with mister 1up still in lead. The minutes count down. The bid jumps to $10 with mister jerk still on top.
Five minutes
Four minutes
Three minutes
Two minutes
One minute hits and I place my bid, fearing of I take any more time I will trip and need to re-log in and lose the auction.
Fifty seconds
Fourty seconds and mister bidder bids up to $15
Thirty seconds the bid is now $20
Twenty seconds $25
Ten seconds
Five seconds and the bid reaches clear up to $40
Zero seconds I win with my top bid of $40.99.
Victory. My enemy's are crushed under my mighty mouse click.
Jesus I need to get back to work.