WWTBAM Bored

....winning a vintage Heywood Wakefield desk on eBay.

I am in a hot and heated battle for a vintage Heywood Wakefield student desk for the office at my new residence.

Because the room is on the small side, the student desk -- with its side bookshelves and slightly smaller size (44 inches across vs. 50 inches for the larger H-W desks) is perfect.

It's not refinished so it's being offered at far below book value.

We can pick it up in the Jersey suburbs.

I would be happy.

I was outbid by $1.57 in the last seconds.

By someone who wasn't the person I was bidding against for three days.

I'm sorry.

This isn't exactly what you were bidding on, but it's a good-looking desk, another Heywood Wakefield, if you can pick up in Jackson Heights, NY.

http://tinyurl.com/38ufay

I hate it when that happens!

Somebody drove up the price of the leather Jeopardy jacket that belonged to Johnny Gilbert in the last few minutes and I ended up paying twice as much as I thought I would.

I am currently high bidder for another desk, this one located in Lancaster, so the guy will deliver it.

So, we'll see.

mellytu74 wrote:I was outbid by $1.57 in the last seconds.

By someone who wasn't the person I was bidding against for three days.

There are some bid sniping programs available for Ebay which automatically place a bid right before an auction ends so the original bidder doesn't have a chance to respond. A lot of times it's someone who's never bid on the auction before.

It's happened to me on a number of occasions.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I hate it when that happens!

Somebody drove up the price of the leather Jeopardy jacket that belonged to Johnny Gilbert in the last few minutes and I ended up paying twice as much as I thought I would.

You guys would hate me and my wife.

That's our bidding strategy. I don't think we've ever bid on something any earlier than 15-20 minutes to go.

And honestly, I don't see why anyone would.

Edited to add- we don't use sniping programs- just have gotten very adept at when to put in our last bid.

jeemie --

My problem was I couldn't hit the button fast enough. I sat and monitored for the last 25 minutes or so.

I put my first bid in about two hours before and that was just to get something in there.