midget1500

*****, i sometimes play a little game whereby i bid on items i don't want to buy (gone past my threshold), but i just want to drive the price up (see how far i can go without winning), sometimes i bid in the last 1-2 mins for real excitment. done this about a dozen times, but i just (LOST!) i.e. won an auction for a 5.6" TFT in-car TV...argrhgrhrgrhr!

so, anyone want to buy it???

steven - DOH!!!

edit to say - if this wasn't true it would have made nice muppet material

[Edited by midget1500 - 7/22/2003 7:27:53 PM]

Peanuts

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Mr.Cookie

what a sad sad life you must have

midget1500

lol - true the joys of being an unemployed bum, beats watching daytime TV!!!

Dracoro

why do you want to drive the price up?

anyway, serves you right

benview7

You are a very very sad person and its people like you who give Scoobynet a bad name, by driving up e bay prices you are screwing it up for the seller who may lose a genuine bid because of you

I accept you are unemployed but why dont you go out and tidy up some old persons garden this would at least be productive!!!!

get a life Mate

midget1500

lol

the seller wont suffer as i'll buy it and sell it again!

play with fire and you get burnt and all that

Brendan Hughes

If you sell it for a profit, that'll prove that God just doesn't exist

Mr.Cookie

Sold for profit it is then

RichiW

Got to say it serves you right, one of the other bidders could have been me, if it was anything geniunely worth having

boxst

Hello

Well, if you feel the need I'm selling an ISDN modem on there somewhere! Please feel free to over inflate the price for me!

Steve.

image doctor

Russian Roulette with ebay......nice idea.

fitzscoob

give you £5 for it

Apparition

Serves you right you ...ker

BOB.T

LOL

My only complaint is that you obviously didn't "bid up" the model truck I just sold, it went for £30 less than I hoped I still made money on it though

mike_s14

jesus you must have some time on your hands

I have a job biding for the few things I actually want

PG

IIRC there was a Rangers fan taken to court for doing just this when the Celtic UEFA tickets hit eBay

Gordo

what's wrong with you lot?

sounds like good fun to me - the seller benefits as the price is driven up - if other bidders choose to pay higher, that's there choice.

there's nothin illegal or immoral about it - it's what happens at auctions all the time. and occasionally the 'bogus' bidder gets stung - but he knew that going in.

good on ya, mate - nothing wrong with bidding up when someone's really keen to beat you to something

Gordo

Gidney&Knowlesy

Missus just bid succesfully on Monday for a 5 star hotel for two all in; got there today and it is a 5 star hotel for 7 days with beach towels and gowns supplied, the hotel is fantastic.

Paid £500 for two people, (missus & daughter) and she didn't even have time to make me 7 days of meals or frozen sandwiches......

TelBoy

Steve, i'm confused. What exactly do you gain from this, except the chance of owning stuff you don't really want? Is it *that* much of an adrenalin rush?

scoobydooooo

hahahahahaha , what a hornets nest this has stirred , personally i think its funny as f**k !!

boxst

Hello

I don't think it's a problem either. The seller gets a higher price for their goods, and the other bidders don't have to continue to bid if they don't want to.

I'm still relying on you for the modem ..... !!

Steve.

Old_Fart

It's not a problem for anyone other than the sad individual whose life is so empty they feel the need to engage in pointless risk-taking on an auction site...why not just go and try running back and forth accross the M1? See how many times you can do it in 5 minutes at 6am, then again at 7am etc - that'd give you a real thrill!
Chuck
(whoops lost my community spirit there for a sec!)

TelBoy

Is anyone who thinks this is a great laugh over the age of 25?

boxst

Telboy:

That's slightly different. I don't think it's a great laugh, not even a slight snigger actually.

Not something I would do for fun, but it's not harmful.

Steve.

Gordo

I'm 32 and I think it's funny - what a miserable, dull lot you are!!!

TelBoy

Why is it funny? I'm totally happy to be enlightenend on a whole new source of fun i've overlooked up to now, but i just don't understand what it achieves. Can somebody please explain?

beemerboy

got to say, i fail to see any funnyness in this....
- but each to their own, i s'pose!!

BB

Aged 34 and 3/4

Old_Fart

Was talking to a friend at the weekend and he mentioned how in his youth he used to run over cars..ie take a running jump, go over the bonnet up the screen across the roof and off the boot. I had been saying how I couldn't understand mindless vandalism..what was the rush? He said it was the excitement, the risk that the windscreen would shatter and youd fall over.
As said above, different strikes for different folks..as long as you are only hurting yourself (and you ain't spending my taxes on 'losing' the auction (ie the dole money) then go ahead and 'enjoy' yourself.
Cman

midget1500

lol at you lot

as i said in the post, if i want something and the bidding goes to high (over my threshold for that item) sometimes i'll just bid again to **** the other person off and see how far it goes!

this isn't something i sit and do all day