Ebay and the knife collector - iKnife Collector2024-03-29T14:53:02Zhttps://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/ebay-and-the-knife-collector?id=3181080%3ATopic%3A1139808&feed=yes&xn_auth=noExactly as Doug said, there h…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-31:3181080:Comment:13504512015-08-31T03:11:43.956ZJerryd6818https://iknifecollector.com/profile/Jerryd6818
<p>Exactly as Doug said, there have been times when I was going out of town and/or for some other reason would not have access to eBay. There have been a few times when for one reason or another, I just plain spaced the ending of the auction and missed a great deal. Then there have been a few times when the auction ended at 0200 and who wants to stay up for that. I don't get any pleasure from the tension of an auction ending but that's just me. I'm glad I found Gixen.</p>
<p>Exactly as Doug said, there have been times when I was going out of town and/or for some other reason would not have access to eBay. There have been a few times when for one reason or another, I just plain spaced the ending of the auction and missed a great deal. Then there have been a few times when the auction ended at 0200 and who wants to stay up for that. I don't get any pleasure from the tension of an auction ending but that's just me. I'm glad I found Gixen.</p> Jan Carter said:
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I h…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-30:3181080:Comment:13499122015-08-30T14:28:10.016ZDoug Webberhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/DOUGWebber
<p><br></br> <br></br> <cite>Jan Carter said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/ebay-and-the-knife-collector?commentId=3181080%3AComment%3A1350018&xg_source=msg_com_forum#3181080Comment1350018"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Jerry,</p>
<p>I have never used a sniping program. Part of the fun of the win for me is being there to place my bids in the last few seconds. I can think of times I would have wanted it in place though!</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Jan Carter said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/ebay-and-the-knife-collector?commentId=3181080%3AComment%3A1350018&xg_source=msg_com_forum#3181080Comment1350018"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Jerry,</p>
<p>I have never used a sniping program. Part of the fun of the win for me is being there to place my bids in the last few seconds. I can think of times I would have wanted it in place though!</p>
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<p>I completely agree with you about the fun of the bid. I figure it must be comparable to the kick some folks get out of playing slot machines...but when a knife you've been searching for is ending and you know you won't have access to a computer, it's pretty sweet when you get home and check your purchase history and find you got it for a song....nothing worse than finding out you missed it and it went for about half of what you would have bid. $5 in fees lasted me better than 6 months. I just used it to get Schrades Trail of Tears knife for under $89 ..and I was the only bidder..the last 2 that sold this August on Ebay went for $150 and $199. The E-Snipe fee was 90 cents. The picture is from Ebay.<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2770504823?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2770504823?profile=original" width="500" class="align-full"/></a></p>
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I have never used a sn…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-30:3181080:Comment:13500182015-08-30T12:55:56.804ZJan Carterhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/JanCarter
<p>Jerry,</p>
<p>I have never used a sniping program. Part of the fun of the win for me is being there to place my bids in the last few seconds. I can think of times I would have wanted it in place though!</p>
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<p>I have never used a sniping program. Part of the fun of the win for me is being there to place my bids in the last few seconds. I can think of times I would have wanted it in place though!</p> I've started using "Gixen", a…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-30:3181080:Comment:13500032015-08-30T11:18:48.832ZJerryd6818https://iknifecollector.com/profile/Jerryd6818
<p>I've started using "Gixen", a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>free</strong></span> sniping program. The pre-auction end bid time for the free version is six seconds. For $6 per year, you can get a variety of sniping times starting with three seconds and a maximum of 15 seconds plus some other stuff.</p>
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<p>I did a trial run with the free version and it worked so well I upgraded to the $6 per year version. Both are cheap at twice the price. If you want to read all…</p>
<p>I've started using "Gixen", a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>free</strong></span> sniping program. The pre-auction end bid time for the free version is six seconds. For $6 per year, you can get a variety of sniping times starting with three seconds and a maximum of 15 seconds plus some other stuff.</p>
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<p>I did a trial run with the free version and it worked so well I upgraded to the $6 per year version. Both are cheap at twice the price. If you want to read all about it and/or try it, download the free desktop manager here: <a href="http://www.gixen.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.gixen.com/index.php</a></p>
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<p>And no, I don't work for them. I'm just a satisfied user.</p> I just found this Ebay policy…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-30:3181080:Comment:13500992015-08-30T07:37:51.933ZDoug Webberhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/DOUGWebber
<p>I just found this Ebay policy concerning bidding on Reserve auctions</p>
<p><span>In reserve price auctions, if your maximum bid is at least the reserve price, we automatically increase your bid to meet the reserve, and bidding will continue from there.</span></p>
<p>I just found this Ebay policy concerning bidding on Reserve auctions</p>
<p><span>In reserve price auctions, if your maximum bid is at least the reserve price, we automatically increase your bid to meet the reserve, and bidding will continue from there.</span></p> I buy 95% of my knives on Eba…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-28:3181080:Comment:13496002015-08-28T14:29:43.508ZDoug Webberhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/DOUGWebber
<p>I buy 95% of my knives on Ebay. I agree with Jerry. Buy during the week and sell on the weekend...Sunday has always been good to me....and remember, there is a 3 hour time difference between the coasts. Never sell on a 3 day weekend, the super bowl, the world series or the Daytona 500. Those are great times to find a bargain on higher end knives though.</p>
<p>I buy 95% of my knives on Ebay. I agree with Jerry. Buy during the week and sell on the weekend...Sunday has always been good to me....and remember, there is a 3 hour time difference between the coasts. Never sell on a 3 day weekend, the super bowl, the world series or the Daytona 500. Those are great times to find a bargain on higher end knives though.</p> Tobias Gibson said:
The onl…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-28:3181080:Comment:13496972015-08-28T14:12:25.368ZDoug Webberhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/DOUGWebber
<p><br></br> <br></br> <cite>Tobias Gibson said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/ebay-and-the-knife-collector?id=3181080%3ATopic%3A1139808&page=3#3181080Comment1144481"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>The only time I bid early is when I will not be able to bid at the last second. And when I snipe, I shoot with my max bid. If I get it for less, then that is icing on the cake. If my max bid wasn't good high enough I will lose the bid but at least I…</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Tobias Gibson said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/ebay-and-the-knife-collector?id=3181080%3ATopic%3A1139808&page=3#3181080Comment1144481"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>The only time I bid early is when I will not be able to bid at the last second. And when I snipe, I shoot with my max bid. If I get it for less, then that is icing on the cake. If my max bid wasn't good high enough I will lose the bid but at least I won't pay more that wanted to pay. That is my general rule that I use when bidding. </p>
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<p>I found out a long time ago if I bid early I might bid often and might end up spending much more than I wanted to spend. The key it to remember you are trying to buy an item and not win a prize. You can't let the emotion of the moment control the purchase.</p>
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<p>I've seen items go for a higher bid on eBay than the sticker price on Amazon, SMKW or some other eBay's seller "Buy it Now" price! </p>
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<p>If I'm not going to be home to snipe an auction I use an online service called E-SNIPE <a rel="nofollow" href="https://esnipe19.esnipe.com/" target="_blank">https://esnipe19.esnipe.com/</a> They only charge you if you win the auction. 25 cents for anything up to $25 and then a penny a dollar after that... a $50 knife only costs 50 cents extra if you win...nothing if you dont. For $5 you're good for $500 of won auctions. You just enter in the item # , your max bid, and when you want it to bid. I set it for 4 seconds befor the auction ends. You can cancel your bid up to 5 minutes before the end of the auction with no penalty. Works great.</p>
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What I hate aro…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-08-28:3181080:Comment:13495032015-08-28T14:03:35.984ZDoug Webberhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/DOUGWebber
<p><br></br> <br></br> <cite>Ivars said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/ebay-and-the-knife-collector#3181080Comment1140242"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>What I hate around ebay thing is the words " Seller shipping restriction & No Shipping out of USA" these two things I hate on ebay! The sellers are selling knives and they want to get good money but they don't want to ship to anyone who is out of USA! Thats the reason why many great knives like GEC,…</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Ivars said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/ebay-and-the-knife-collector#3181080Comment1140242"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>What I hate around ebay thing is the words " Seller shipping restriction & No Shipping out of USA" these two things I hate on ebay! The sellers are selling knives and they want to get good money but they don't want to ship to anyone who is out of USA! Thats the reason why many great knives like GEC, Queen, Shatt&Morgan ...... are going for 35-60$! Once I bid on GEC knife and it was a moose made in 2010 and after I get it seller wasn't wanting to ship it to me, I was washing his brain something around two weeks about that shipping to Europe is safe and if knife gets lost after it leaves USA, I will not gonna ask for refund (of course if packaging is pretty secure!)! After two weeks he changed his mind and he shipped knife to me! Now it just got second knife from his store! So the seller happy, I'm happy! So that thing I just hate on ebay! Another thing what I hate is a sellers who haven't wrote in description: NO SHIPPING WORLD WIDE. So I bid and win the knife! Seller is not responding on emails, when I ask for invoice officially he don't send it and in the same time he don't want to cancel transaction! So I get unpaid item on my account and last year that way I collected a full house! I wasn't able to pay for items because of those sellers and I wasn't able to bid because of ebay unpaid policy! But overall ebay to me is the only one place where I have some chance to get some knives cheaper and get rare and vintage knives what are not for sale in online stores! </p>
<p>If we talk about cheaper that I get mint Crandall seahorse for 40$! I got limited edition Case stockman for 35$! I got Case CocaCola knife in a tin for something around 35$! Thanks to guys who where happy to ship those knives to me! </p>
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<p>My buddy in Australia has all his Ebay knives shipped to me. When I get a box full I ship the whole lot to him in a flat rate priority box. Cuts the international shipping charge down to about an extra 3-4 dollars a knife. Sure he has to wait on his knives, but he can buy anything he wants. Also I check out the knives for him so if there is a problem, the knife can be returned a lot easier. We use Skype so it's easy to show him what's what with a knife.</p>
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</blockquote> I actually noticed on Ebay no…tag:iknifecollector.com,2015-02-18:3181080:Comment:12693092015-02-18T01:47:03.871ZCarl Bradshawhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/CarlBradshaw
<p>I actually noticed on Ebay now that if you bid higher than the reserve, but the auction didn't go up high enough to hit the reserve, Ebay will send you an email asking if you want to buy the item at the reserve price.</p>
<p>I actually noticed on Ebay now that if you bid higher than the reserve, but the auction didn't go up high enough to hit the reserve, Ebay will send you an email asking if you want to buy the item at the reserve price.</p> Data, you may be right but he…tag:iknifecollector.com,2014-12-17:3181080:Comment:12402412014-12-17T17:28:22.559ZTobias Gibsonhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/TobiasGibson
<p>Data, you may be right but he really needs to work on his "people skills"</p>
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<p>Data, you may be right but he really needs to work on his "people skills"</p>
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