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Just curious about your eBay experiences. I, for example, know 100% for sure that my Smashing Pumpkins collection would be half the size of what it is now, if eBay didn’t exist. I love the place, but hate the last second bidders, and their sniping programs… Urgh! Nevertheless, I’m guilty too, sometimes I’m a last minute bidder also when I really want something. But I do it manually, if I don’t have to stay up late…
Don’t have that many bad experiences too, only recently had the second one in 7 years of eBay-ing. About a year ago I get lots of spoof emails, but all of them I send to their Spoof Dept. for further inquiry and lately I don’t get them anymore.Never had bad experiences with fraud on eBay, nor fraud with my creditcard via PayPal… Am I just lucky, or just average? Funny enough, even in The Netherlands there are still many people that don’t dare to go buying on da net, let alone go to eBay. Anyway, just curious what you guys do and experience with eBay.
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i don’t always do it, but last minute bidding is the smartest thing to do. it keeps the price as low as possible.
i’ve had some problems with ebay. once a cd arrived broken, because it was sent in a regular paper envelope, and the seller refused to give me a refund. once i bought two rare vinyls and they never arrived. and once i bought a radio cd that looked fake and i sent it back to the seller after we agreed on a refund, but i never got that refund. so i actually wasted even more money on it by sending it back.
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i buy from ebay all the time- a bit of an addict maybe
, but there is too much good SP stuff. 
i also like it because i can get stuff they don’t sell where i live, which is nice because Montana doesn’t have all the stores. and you can find some rare hard to find items there too.
as far as bad or weird experiences- it was just my run in with Veronica and \"Kurt\" and that was it. otherwise everything has been fine.and sorry, as Ice Cream found out today
– i’m a last second bidder. in fact i pretty much only snipe items and, usually as a rule, i only bid in the last minute of an auction, literally. i just find that its easier to get an item that way and it usually prevents me from getting into long dragged out bidding wars on stuff i want, thus saving me some money or i think it does anyway. i just don’t like to bid early and have a bunch of others decide its a great item too and start going for it. i would rather everyone else fight it out with the bidding. then i can just slip in at the end and steal the item. nefarious, but effective. 
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I’ve been on eBay since 1996 I think. I used to be under a different identity, and I let me college roommate use it to bid on stuff he wanted, but he never paid for items, so my identity was deleted. so i started over.
Anyway, eBay is the best. I’ve purchased a $17,000 SUV on there before. No problems. I’ve easily had over 500 buys, and maybe got screwed out of $10 once.
It’s very secure. I love it. However, most of the people I buy from are established with either 100% feedback or power sellers. Never had problems.
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As for sniping, I used to not like it, when I got sniped. Now I’m the one sniping and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I actually think it prevents a seller from inflating the price with an alternate identity. I’ve seen that before. If the seller believes there is no interest in the item, he/she can’t inflate because no one had bid.
Or if I do bid early, I don’t really want the item badly, and the bid is usually very low.
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i don’t always do it, but last minute bidding is the smartest thing to do. it keeps the price as low as possible.[/quote:5xmpreop]
That’s only when the bidders without the sniping programs didn’t use the max. bid option. When I really want something, I bid higher to protect it. Sometimes the snipers got scared of the price and run away without paying. In those few cases I got a second chance offer from the seller. Also, once, I managed to outbid a sniper, by having 2 screens open, refreshing 1 of them and when the screen gets stuck, I know a sniper is bidding. Then I’ll bid again in the very last seconds to outbid the sucker. Happened once, and it was fun!
All in all, I think using the max. bid option works better for me, whenever I bid. When a sniper wants it, he has to outbid me anyway, and when he wins from me, he was ready to pay a higher price then me. So I’m not that frustrated afterwards most of the times. It’s only the sneaky behaviour that is irritating, when for days and days you think to have won an auction and in the last minute it goes to someone else anyway. Well, their luck.
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It’s only the sneaky behaviour that is irritating, when for days and days you think to have won an auction and in the last minute it goes to someone else anyway.[/quote:1ueukg2x]
that’s where you’re wrong: you should never think you won the item, just because you are the highest bidder for a while.half of the times i also place my bid hours or days in advance.
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Funny enough, even in The Netherlands there are still many people that don’t dare to go buying on da net, let alone go to eBay.[/quote:31jzibty]
People who have no idea just how safe the internet can be, and believe all those ZOMFG!!!11!! horror stories in tabloid newspapers annoy me. Maybe because they’re the sort of people who don’t understand the importance of net neutrality. Ho-hum.
Once, I got out-bidded (or rather, my dad did on my behalf) on an extremely rare MCR item by a sniper. Of course, my dad was sniping too. But it kinda sucked a lot, because I doubt I’ll ever see that item again
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^ No. Fucking. Way. I didn’t even know you could actually find it online. I’ve been wanting that item since I knew it existed! I feel your pain x_x.[/quote:1vlw3641]
I found it completely by accident. It went like this: (dozing in bed) "Hmm… wouldn’t it be cool if LPF was on eBay? Haha, why don’t I check. As if
" (Checks eBay) "O.M.F.G. DAAAAAAD! I NEED YOUR CREDIT CARD!"Well, except for the dramatization. Such as screaming for my dad.
It was actually about a year ago. I believe the seller was selling it to help pay some school fees or something. He included a poster he stole from the show where they gave it away, and some pics he took.
On a side note, which rare MCR items do you own? I’ve got all three of the early vinyl singles
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I don’t have Live and Rare (I plan to get it) nor do I have TBP special edition… nor do I have TBPID (I’m very poor). Which kinda sucks.
The rare stuff… there was just this period when all these rare vinyls came onto ebay, and my dad managed to snag some of them, which was awesome. Hah, when he showed me he had won them, I didn’t express much enthusiasm. Which sounds weird, but he showed me just before I left the house to see my then girlfriend, who I thought may be breaking up with me then. She didn’t though. She did three weeks later
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Aww oh well, she didn’t know what she had.
Oh and you know what intrigues me? Dreams of Stabbing and/or Being Stabbed. I have all the demos except Wish You Away and Stabbing. It seems no one owns those. Was that ever even released in a physical form? I bet the band has them. I could contact old Matt’s myspace and then…
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Also, what ‘tricks’ are these you mentioned, Arthur?[/quote:2bxs6n25]
Using several search engines, not only Google, and using different word combinations. Not really special, but you always get the obvious places when you type "my chemical romance like phantoms forever". Trying "chemical romance ep 2002 sale" for example might bring up unexpected results. But it didn’t so far. -
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