Where did i go wrong with gunbroker ?

[CraigC]

You have to have a card to register but I have not updated my info in years. For I have not sold anything in years but I still have no problem bidding. I bid on one last week. Sounds like some sort of error.

If there are any bids in the last 15mins, bidding is extended another 15mins. I wish Ebay would adopt this policy.

 

[BADUNAME30]

I dunno Craig, it says that my account is active

 

[heeler]

I dont remember ever having to give a credit card info on GB.
I have been on that auction site since late 2003 and never remember anything like this.
In fact I won a bid yesterday on a pristine Marlin stock to place on my old model 25 .22 rifle.

 

[BADUNAME30]

I just found my issue heeler. My debit card had expired last year and i didn't update it. Now, i try to edit the info and it won't let me. I just keep getting a message saying that my card info does not match the info on file.:banghead:
I'm about to jist call that sight history and delete it from my favs.

 

[TennJed]

The winning bid was posted and it was lower than mine.There were only two bids, thiers and mine.

I have never used gunbroker, but I assume that it is like other online auctions. You put in your max bid and it will automatically increase what you are budding it to your max. The winning bid may not be what the winner put in for their max bid, just what it ended at. If you had successfully bid higher you still my not have won if it was under the others max bid, you just would have cost him more money.

Is that not how gunbroker works?

 

[DammitBoy]

Jim, contact their help center and they will fix it for you.

 

[BADUNAME30]

I did do that DB and just got a response saying it was fixed.That i can now successfuly bid.
I went back and checked my status and alltho it says "account active", my cc still shows invalid. ( my old expired one is still listed ) It still won't let me update/edit my cc info.
I 'spect i'm gonna hafta try and bid on/buy something to see if it is indeed fixed.

 

[Cosmoline]

That's odd, I've never used a cc for GB. I've had an account there for ten years.

I dont remember ever having to give a credit card info on GB.

Maybe it's something they've put in place for new accounts or for sellers as opposed to buyers. Or maybe it's moot if you have an A+ rating.

 

[AZ_Rebel]

Jim... are you sure you were not "typing with an drawl" like you normally do. Maybe Gunbroker could not figure out your bid.
Sorry fella.... could not resist.

 

[DagoRed]

Personally I think Sniper biding, on ebay, gunbroker or whatever is just fooling yourself.

Figure out what you will pay for the item, put your max in on a proxy bid, and see if you got it when the item ends. I can't remember how many times I have won an item that way when someone tried to snipe in at the last second, only to find after it closed that they lost, because my proxy was higher. Doesn't mean I had to pay my top price, just that the proxy put me above the fool that sniped.

I got a car that way (a Mustang). The guy who tried to snipe it sent me a couple emails singing the blues because he didn't get it. Too bad for him, good for me. (it was a beautiful 5.0 that my son still drives). Yeah, keep sniping, I will keep winning.

 

[medalguy]

I, on the other hand, have won lots of auctions on evilbay sniping, and kept the price lower. Here's the difference: If I find an item closing on Friday and I bid on Monday, another bidder bids Tuesday, I rebid Wednesday, and so on, driving the price too high. ON the other hand, if I enter a snipe bid, no one knows I'm interested in the item until 6 seconds before the auction ends, preventing a bidding war. Result? I get the item for a lower price usually than I would have paid otherwise.

Sniping works both ways. You just have to be careful to not enter a snipe for more than you would be willing to pay tops.

 

[DammitBoy]

I'll wait til the last couple of hours on gunbroker and then put in my max bid and see what happens. If I did that several days earlier, the item for bid gets shot to the top of the lookie loo list where more potential buyers will see it.

 

[btg3]

Most good deals take patience on GB. But if you gotta have it, then bid like crazy.

 

[DammitBoy]

Right btg - I've done searches on gunbroker for a particular gun for three years before I got the deal I wanted.