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Originally posted by ASUADPi
Thirdly, how would you feel if you were the high bidder for like two days and then suddenly with 23 seconds left a sister comes in and outbids you? Also, I should mention that my ebay name states ADPi in it, so she knew she was outbidding a sister and it wasn't like it was a bidding war between us, it wasn't, she never bid on the item before.
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ASU, I def. agree with you when you say communication is the key, but I also have to agree wth sweetieadpi because she also made some valid points.
I am by no means trying to tell you how you can and cannot feel, but sometimes you have to take into account the other person's intent.
The winning bidder might not have bid on the item before, but many people, myself included, will not bid on an item until the very end of the auction. My whole logic in that is, why am I going to drive the price up during the entire duration of the item, when I can wait at the end? If the item is still at a reasonable price level, I will bid on it then, if not, then I'll look for something else to spend money on
Like I said before, I do agree with you that communication is the key, but maybe if the unfortunate situation really bothered you, you could try communicating with the winning bidder and see if you could buy the item from them like sweetieadpi suggested.
While I agree with the majority of the posters on this thread, I'm a little reluctant to form set "guidelines" to follow.
*PLEASE* don't anyone take this the wrong way, but we have rules for everything... rules for our conduct, living in the house, etc., do we really need guidelines to
bid on ebay?
I'm all for respecting sisters, and communicating, but we have a zillion initated members... and a lot of them have access to computers and to ebay. There will be times that more than 2 or even 10 sisters will want the same item, so I think sometimes situations like that will come down to whoever wins it out in the bitter end... even if it means waiting until the last 10 seconds.
I don't want to sound negative at all, but I just feel this is a little much
