An EBay WWYD.

**lazymummy** · 17-03-2012, 04:50pm

Originally Posted by Chickpea

Well, it's at £112, an hour and a bit to go. TBH I'm happy with that, anything more is a bonus.

You got a bonus then! I just watched the auction end, it was very exciting!!!

**Chickpea** · 17-03-2012, 05:20pm

Wasn't it just????!!!!

I lost internet connection at around 2 mins (was in M&S) so I didn't know what was going on, I nearly fell over when I saw what it went for!!!!

**lazymummy** · 17-03-2012, 05:52pm

I love it when Ebay goes like that!

**Velvet Chain** · 17-03-2012, 06:02pm

Congrats - you made a nice bit of cash there, thank goodness you let the auction continue!

**Chickpea** · 17-03-2012, 06:07pm

Yeah VC, something/someone was telling me to hang on, v glad I did now!!

And I don't feel quite so guilty over my shopping spree yesterday now.

**Lilybett** · 17-03-2012, 06:09pm

Wow! That's fab

**donna-j** · 17-03-2012, 07:49pm

Wow well done.

**January** · 17-03-2012, 08:40pm

Brilliant result

Just as well you didn't let us talk you into ending it

**Queenie** · 18-03-2012, 12:28pm

Glad it went well for you. I've run thousands of ebay auctions over the last 3 or 4 years, and I've learnt tha tthe first sign an auction is about to go crazy is someone asking if I'll end it early. In ebayese, "Will you do a BIN?"= "It's worth far more than I want to pay,can I buy it before anyone else notices?".

**January** · 18-03-2012, 02:46pm

Originally Posted by Queenie

I've learnt tha tthe first sign an auction is about to go crazy is someone asking if I'll end it early. In ebayese, "Will you do a BIN?"= "It's worth far more than I want to pay,can I buy it before anyone else notices?".

Very true.

I thought the cash offer came from outside ebay. Nearly always worth letting it run if someone wants a BIN as it often seems to be a try on.

Sadly warning flags don't get to fly on my auctions very often

***Holly*** · 18-03-2012, 02:58pm

I nearly always ask for Buy it Nows, I never have the patience to wait for an auction to end, its not always people trying it on.

I asked for a buy it now on a fireplace a few months ago, the starting price was £10 and I offered him £20. The seller said he had had a few offers like that so wanted to let the auction run unless I wanted to offer enough to make it worth him ending it. So I said i'd wait and won it for £10.50

**bubblewrap** · 18-03-2012, 04:36pm

How much did it go for in the end?

**bubblewrap** · 18-03-2012, 04:36pm

Just noticed the link - that is AWESOME! Well done!

**January** · 18-03-2012, 06:27pm

Originally Posted by *Holly*

I nearly always ask for Buy it Nows, I never have the patience to wait for an auction to end, its not always people trying it on.

I asked for a buy it now on a fireplace a few months ago, the starting price was £10 and I offered him £20. The seller said he had had a few offers like that so wanted to let the auction run unless I wanted to offer enough to make it worth him ending it. So I said i'd wait and won it for £10.50

I didn't say it was always a try on

Personally I tend to let auctions run regardless having agreed to a BIN on one occasion and getting effed about

Another good result there though. An object lesson in starting at a price you'd be happy to end at!