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eBay is ridiculous. I had an account in good standing with hundreds of positive feedback points for over 15 years and when one day made the mistake of logging in to shop while I had my VPN on. My account was immediately banned and they won't give it back to me unless I give them my phone number and a photograph of my ID.

Needless to say I don't have an eBay account anymore. If I do shop there, I do it as a guest account which limits you to "buy it now" items.
Honestly with all the bots and other shit people have going there to snipe auctions I only ever use ebay's "buy it now" option for shit I need that exists no were else and is at a decent enough price. I haven't actually put in a bid on anything online since like 2011. I don't want to run macros just to buy a cassette player.
 
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Kek apparently ebay might have upset some people with their recent actions
 
Honestly with all the bots and other shit people have going there to snipe auctions I only ever use ebay's "buy it now" option for shit I need that exists no were else and is at a decent enough price. I haven't actually put in a bid on anything online since like 2011. I don't want to run macros just to buy a cassette player.
If you didnt want to be sniped during an auction, bid the most you're willing to spend instead of incrementally increasing over time.

Ebay has a system in which you enter a maximim bid and they will automatically increase your bid against anyone else. So long as your set maximum bid is the highest, you will win. Buy it nows are often higher than auctions so you've got nothing to lose when participating in auctions. You do not need any third party programs to join and win Ebay auctions.
 
If you didnt want to be sniped during an auction, bid the most you're willing to spend instead of incrementally increasing over time. Ebay will automatically increase your bid against anyone else who bids so long as your set maximum bid is the highest, you will win. Buy it nows are often higher than auctions so you've got nothing to lose when participating in auctions.
If I was using an account. For a lot of the stuff I buy on there I'm only losing like 5ish% total on price using buy now, and you also have to set the maximum which it often goes overn,especially when buying hot items like night vision. The entire website is a fucking mess and I only use it occasionally because all the murderers drove the shit I need away from craigslist.
 
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If you didnt want to be sniped during an auction, bid the most you're willing to spend instead of incrementally increasing over time.

Ebay has a system in which you enter a maximim bid and they will automatically increase your bid against anyone else. So long as your set maximum bid is the highest, you will win. Buy it nows are often higher than auctions so you've got nothing to lose when participating in auctions. You do not need any third party programs to join and win Ebay auctions.
The problem is that there's a fixed, inflexible cutoff time. Traditional auctions typically run until people stop bidding. Waiting until the last second to place your final bid and then winning the auction only because the human you're bidding against does not have time to respond is only a viable strategy when you're using some kind of bot to place your bid.

What it should do is send an email/text message to notify you that you've been outbid and guarantee you some reasonable amount of time before the auction closes to decide whether you want to bid higher and keep the auction going.
 
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The problem is that there's a fixed, inflexible cutoff time. Traditional auctions typically run until people stop bidding. Waiting until the last second to place your final bid and then winning the auction only because the human you're bidding against does not have time to respond is only a viable strategy when you're using some kind of bot to place your bid.

What it should do is send an email/text message to notify you that you've been outbid and guarantee you some reasonable amount of time before the auction closes to decide whether you want to bid higher and keep the auction going.
You don't need a bot, Ebay has an auto-bid function, you put in your budget and it automatically bids in increments of $5 vs other people until you either win or you hit your budget.
 
Waiting until the last second to place your final bid and then winning the auction only because the human you're bidding against does not have time to respond is only a viable strategy when you're using some kind of bot to place your bid.
Maybe if you're doing it a lot as a profession of some sort, but I've manually sniped all kinds of shit. You're less likely to get away with it these days but it definitely happens.
You don't need a bot, Ebay has an auto-bid function, you put in your budget and it automatically bids in increments of $5 vs other people until you either win or you hit your budget.
If I'm doing this I don't want to get sucked into paying the maximum I'm willing to pay by some bot. I want to get it for a lot less, pretty much as little as possible. It's fun and I get to rub my hands together like Le Happy Merchant.
 
Null, sorry if this has been asked before, but can you change it so that when you hit "Reply" or "Quote" with an edit box open the quote goes into the post you're editing instead of the new reply box? Sometimes I say stuff and then I see new posts I want to respond to after the page reloads without double posting. Even just adding the multi-quote dialog box to the formatting toolbar of edited posts would be great.
 
Null, sorry if this has been asked before, but can you change it so that when you hit "Reply" or "Quote" with an edit box open the quote goes into the post you're editing instead of the new reply box? Sometimes I say stuff and then I see new posts I want to respond to after the page reloads without double posting. Even just adding the multi-quote dialog box to the formatting toolbar of edited posts would be great.
I see this as unlikely to be fixed. You can copy and paste from the new reply box into the edit box to work around it. Switch to BBcode to copy it if the quote formatting gets messed up.
 
Null, sorry if this has been asked before, but can you change it so that when you hit "Reply" or "Quote" with an edit box open the quote goes into the post you're editing instead of the new reply box? Sometimes I say stuff and then I see new posts I want to respond to after the page reloads without double posting. Even just adding the multi-quote dialog box to the formatting toolbar of edited posts would be great.
Null has said, more than once and with good reason, that he isn't wasting any more time fixing xenforo bullshit.
 
eBay bans selling accounts in such an abritary and frankly fully automatic way that I'm actually willing to entertain the idea that this was a completely random act of some scripts getting triggered on some obscure datapoints that had nothing to do with the farms notoriety. eBay is just that shitty. If you want to know why turning everything over to the supervision of a machine is bad idea, platforms like eBay are a great example.

re: bidding, almost any regular auctioneer has some second account pushing the maximum bid to the point the person actually want to sell the item at, you can even confirm this by checking out who bid and seeing their activity with that particular seller, as they often use the same account to do this on all their auctions. They're not even coy about it as eBay doesn't do anything about it anyways, even if it's reported on the regular. (and why would they? The more an item sells for, the more money they get to pocket) It's absolute bullshit. Sniping can be a way to defeat this if the auctioning person is inexperienced with the system but I it's not a cure-all, sadly.
 
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Maybe if you're doing it a lot as a profession of some sort, but I've manually sniped all kinds of shit. You're less likely to get away with it these days but it definitely happens.

If I'm doing this I don't want to get sucked into paying the maximum I'm willing to pay by some bot. I want to get it for a lot less, pretty much as little as possible. It's fun and I get to rub my hands together like Le Happy Merchant
Ebay's Autobid only bids the nearest $5 above the highest bid, so if you set your auto-bid on a Sonichu medallion at $500 max, and the other bidders tap out at $420.69 auto-bid will make your final winning bid $425.00, not $500.00
 
What it should do is send an email/text message to notify you that you've been outbid and guarantee you some reasonable amount of time before the auction closes to decide whether you want to bid higher and keep the auction going.
Yahoo Auctions does this: place a bid (no matter if winning or not) within the last 5 minutes and it adds 5 minutes to the clock.

If you didnt want to be sniped during an auction, bid the most you're willing to spend instead of incrementally increasing over time.

Ebay has a system in which you enter a maximim bid and they will automatically increase your bid against anyone else. So long as your set maximum bid is the highest, you will win. Buy it nows are often higher than auctions so you've got nothing to lose when participating in auctions. You do not need any third party programs to join and win Ebay auctions.
Also true, no idea why you got bucketed. Theoretically, it should be less exploitative: just place your honest max bid and forget about it, no chance of the auction to jew you out of more money that way. The way it really works is people's peacetime max bid is what they have no problem paying (say $200), but near the close of the auction they show up overhyped to bid that plus the month's food and rent (say $1000) to ensure they win anyway but thinking (hoping) it won't go above $200 (but you know, you gotta make sure), and then it goes to $985, congratulations Safir, enjoy your new anime figurine,
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Also true, no idea why you got bucketed. Theoretically, it should be less exploitative: just place your honest max bid and forget about it, no chance of the auction to jew you out of more money that way. The way it really works is people's peacetime max bid is what they have no problem paying (say $200), but near the close of the auction they show up overhyped to bid that plus the month's food and rent (say $1000) to ensure they win anyway but thinking (hoping) it won't go above $200 (but you know, you gotta make sure), and then it goes to $985, congratulations Safir, enjoy your new anime figurine,
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Yeah, putting in an outrageously high maximum bid when you fully expect that nobody else is bidding anywhere near that much against you really only works out well if you're the only person with that strategy.
 
Can't seem to edit any of my posts however I haven't received a notification about, or really done anything to warrant, having editing rights taken away. Is this a bug?

Edit: I can edit this post. Just nothing older than I guess 24 hours. Is that intended?
Edit 2: It is intended: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/for-h...r-own-posts-in-the-forum.126286/post-12614440
tl;dr null got sick of people blanking their old posts, which disrupts the archivist nature of this site, so now there's a 24hr limit. OPs should be able to update their posts now however. Also Null is a faget.
 
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