/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Why are you all so idiotic when it comes to auctions?

Stop bidding on items long before they end; all this does is causes you to pay more due to bid chasing. Even if more people are following an auction, if everyone starts bidding right before the auction ends, then the winner pays less and is much less of a hassle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756826
hey please stop spamming ur shitty board on Onontalk dot com except with "a" insted of "O" thanks in advanenc

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756830
I bid once on everything I think I might like, but I only buy it if that bid is enough.

[Anonymous No.]

Bidding is so simple. You enter your MAX value and then see if you win. If you didn't it cost more than you were willing to pay anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756840
You will never win on items that matter and you just bump up the price all the round.

[Anonymous No.]

I wish I was the person you are accusing of doing this.

[Anonymous No.]

I like to bid on items with lots of watchers a few days before the auction ends, just to kick the price up. I am almost guaranteed to be outbid, and I get to piss people off a bit at the same time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756852
Someone will always beat that price (or raise your price greatly), making it moot to think that you'll win.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756866
Why?

Especially when the items are good and niche.

[Anonymous No.]

There's a marketing experiment on this.

You auction off a twenty dollar bill which goes to the winner, of course, but the runner-up also has to pay his full amount to the auctioneer (the instructor).
Bidding can go anywhere between the first bid and $20.00 usually, but once the value of the twenty bill is hit something phenomenally silly often happens: the person who is the runner-up and the highest bidder continue bidding against each other beyond the $20 mark. That's only assuming no one else re-enters the bidding. Commitment fuels throwing good money after bad, especially when the game gets heated.

The end result? someone pays >$20 for a $20 and someone else pays about the same amount for nothing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756875
Less money on the market for the items I want.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756867

I'm always indecisive so those bids are pretty late anyway. But you won't see me sitting there adding 1 dollar at a time the last hour to fight about a product.

[Anonymous No.]

I had a chance to buy 13 touhou plushies for 25k yen.
http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g79848518
I decided to keep the money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3756895
People are more likely to enter a spendfrenzy then become stingy.

>>3756898
That would work if people weren't stupid enough to bid on items long before they end.

[Tohno ♥ ‮ufiaw iam si iganiM ‪‪‪‬ !!UhnG3iuGcmC No.]

I like to bid on things at the very last minute..
But sometimes I go off and play games and forget to bid and miss out on nice stuff..
Just like the fig I was gonna bid on yesterday