Aside from the cost of the repairs needed, there is also that little sentence:robgil said:26 quid.
Buyer must dismantle and collect.
How extremely unfair, unsportsmanlike and thoroughly underhand.MdB said:http://www.auctionstealer.com/home.cfm
It turns Ebay into a sealed bid auction
Penners said:Aside from the cost of the repairs needed, there is also that little sentence:robgil said:26 quid.
Buyer must dismantle and collect.
Not to be taken lightly (in view of the weight!).
Still - a bargain for someone!
WELL.... I'm full of admiration!FamilyWiggs said:Mrs FW and I did it together in a farmyard in January in about 3 hours.
Penners said:How extremely unfair, unsportsmanlike and thoroughly underhand.MdB said:http://www.auctionstealer.com/home.cfm
It turns Ebay into a sealed bid auction
I shall sign up immediately. :wink:
Thanks MdB.
In a normal auction, the bidding goes on until everybody but the winning bidder drops out. People think that Ebay is the same. It isn't. In an Ebay auction, the bidding finishes at a fixed time which means that depending on how clever the other bidders are, you can win at a price less than someone else is willing to pay. The trick is to put your first and maximum bid in a few seconds before the auction finishes, this then doesn't give anybody, who hasn't put the maximum bid in, time to put a higher bid in after you.TomW said:Surely these auction sniping tools are only useful if you have set a high enough max bid.
If there's a higher max bid than yours then you're not going to win, so I can't see the advantage, unless I'm missing something?
MdB said:The trick is to put your first and maximum bid in a few seconds before the auction finishes, this then doesn't give anybody, who hasn't put the maximum bid in, time to put a higher bid in after you.
As most people treat Ebay as a normal auction, they keep on putting in bids just higher than what someone else has bid and critically don't put in their maximum. You can therefore use this to your advantage.
skier-hughes said:It also means you set your maximum figure in the cool light of day, rather than in the heat of the moment in the rush to buy it as the auction closes and you end up paying far more than you intended or it is worth![]()
http://www.typohound.com/ There are others.FamilyWiggs said:The other trick is to search out common misspellings - there are some really bad spellers out there (as opposed to me who types to fast for his sticy new keyboard!)
Yep it is a risk but auction stealer has been around long enough and enough people use it for me to trust it. (and I'm sure you trust the word of another random stranger you have come across on the internet...)Ixia said:Re.the sniping tools, I've looked before and wasn't happy about giving them my password, which they seemed to require?
I'm very impressed at how good a dismantled Aga looks. Indistinguishable from a brand new, mantled one.FamilyWiggs said:Or Macclesfield (this one is even dismantled already)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dismantled-White-Aga-Range-Cooker-2-Ovens-Chrome-Lids-/190503980493?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Kitchen_Ovens_Hobs_Cookers&hash=item2c5aec0dcd
Penners said:I'm very impressed at how good a dismantled Aga looks. Indistinguishable from a brand new, mantled one.FamilyWiggs said:Or Macclesfield (this one is even dismantled already)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dismantled-White-Aga-Range-Cooker-2-Ovens-Chrome-Lids-/190503980493?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Kitchen_Ovens_Hobs_Cookers&hash=item2c5aec0dcd