:(

[pez]

I lost the auction. Should've bid higher because I'm totally happy to go higher, don't know why I didn't. And with Celga I can't raise my maximum easily, so that's that. (Fucking last minute bidders. "Oh I'll bid 4300! No good... I'll wait a bit until it's less than 5 minutes before the auction ends, then decide to bid 4600 so that the auction get automatically extended, for nobody's good! I'm so $mart!" - looks like a Japamart user too, dammit. It is only SMJ that's honest enough to list themselves as deputy service?)

So upset. I want that book so badly, it's so beautiful!

But there's the other auction for something else on Sunday. I'm totally putting everything behind that one!

Comments

[potter.livejournal.com]

:( I hate auction sites for this very reason. And last minute snipers, as they always seem to catch me out. Urgh. I'm sorry.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Hopefully there'll be another one eventually...

[themirtle.livejournal.com]

oh, this is sooo frustrating. first time I was bidding on ebay I was totally taken aback when a bunch of bidders started raising the bar 5 minutes prior its end time. I just couldnt type fast enough to catch up with them. And the sense of loss is just (((

[seregil-1982.livejournal.com]

oh, I am so sorry that you lost this action, because this artbook is/was gorgeous.

anyway, what I didn't know was that the auction gets extended, when you bid in the last 5 minutes before it ends...(and no, as much as I would have liked this artbook too, it wasn't me that snached it, because I only have a SMJ account)
I always figured that it worked like ebay, where you can bid till the very last second and the auction always ends with the time that's stated on the auction side.

so, another lesson learned and a riddle solved too, because I was getting angry at Yahoo.Japan for always extending the auction for seemingly no reasons at all...^-^

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

XD;;; I'm pretty sure most deputy sites explain the auto-extend thing....