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Well this was not fair i put a bid in for £91 in the last 30 seconds for http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0538531412 and in the last 6 seconds 2 other people bid

The lesson you've learnt there is to always place your biggest bid.

Wot William said... if you'd stuck in a bid higher than theirs you'd have won anyway, regardless of how late they'd bid.

Alternatively, find some free sniping software...

Yeah =[ ah well i guess the money can go towards rolling stock lol

Alternatively, find some free sniping software...

I've fallen foul of "sniping software" several times - both as a bidder and seller (the guy was out of the country when his winning bid was placed in the last second, natch he never payed or answered messages until he got home, leaving me on the brink of reporting an "unpaid item" )

Have you used it????

nope never heard of it before until now

I once nealy bought a mamod at 60 pounds. It was nice and had all the mods on it then at the last second a bid went on it at 80 pounds!
Thats just cheating I say!
And stupid- he paind about 16 pounds more than he did have to have beated my bid!

Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote:I once nealy bought a mamod at 60 pounds. It was nice and had all the mods on it then at the last second a bid went on it at 80 pounds!
Thats just cheating I say!
And stupid- he paind about 16 pounds more than he did have to have beated my bid!

Not true- there must have been two bids other than yours- if your max bid was £60 then he could have put in £2000 and still only paid £62, or whatever increment eBay had decided to use.

I have used sniping software, only very occasionally though. Used a free one so the lead time was about 10 seconds, got a few bits and bobs for less than I think I would have done otherwise. That was when I had a particuarly bad internet connection though- I usually just bid in the last 30- odd seconds.

What is this snipping tool?

Software that you can tell to bid on an item for you- it sticks your maximum bid in a few seconds before the auction ends.

i onest borght a whole 5 inch railway on ebay included track loco and stock and i paid 800 pound bargin and the other hand i onest saw a mamod traction unfired boxed te1 that when for £2.000

Is that 2000 pounds or 2 pounds?

yeah 2,000 pounds

Just because that price tag was there doesn't mean it actually got any bids.

Just because that price tag was there doesn't mean it actually got any bids.

Pretty much like the Accy Baguley on there at the moment for what is it?, £560????

there is (or was) one on for £0.90 but that'll shoot up! it's got 6 days to go!