I’m new to this ebay malarkey and the adrenaline rush of winning a bid has taken me by surprise, as has the crushing sense of loss when I miss out.

Anyone else get this or is it just me being weird?

Old Scalextric cars BTW. Just bought and Escort Cosworth for £3.86.

yes, you’re being weird.
yes, i get the same.

Its when you do silly things like buy a 24″ Atomlab front wheel for 99p which then means you HAVE to buy the rest of the bike to build it onto that things start to go downhill.

Just bought and Escort Cosworth for £3.86.

Is it a red one?

Wild optimism precedes gut-wrenching sense of loss. The first failure is the worst.

After a while, you realise there’s loads of unique, once in a lifetime bargains on eBay and the recklessness recedes.

Aaaarrghh! I hate it. I try to stay calm, but get all adrenaline-y in the last minute of bidding, even if no one else had bid on said item & it’s something really obscure.

First item I bid on was a NAD 902 power amp to go with my 3020i & I was naive & foolish. I had the highest bid so went off all smug & pleased with myself, not bothering to wait until the end. Outbid by 20p.
Only time I’ve seen one on there….. 😥

Just bought and Escort Cosworth for £3.86.

Is it a red one?

Black Panasonic one.

Ah, I used to have a Red one (cant remember the sponsors) and it was the fastest Skalextric car I’d ever driven.

I NEED to get another one to match it.

the bloke reading the pace notes needs to get some bi-focals.

Every time, last was this morning at 09.42.50 whn I hit the button

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250881502082?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Hey, lay off the Scalextric habit 😆

You didn’t “win” you were just willing to pay more than anyone else!
no I certainly dont’ have either of those feelings sorry!!!

I once bid on a race prepared Skoda Estelle rally car when drunk and being egged on by my cousin. Roll cage, fire extingusher system, straight cut gears, the whole 9 yards. Would have won it for £600 quid as well but Mrs Tthew made me retract the bid when I remembered what I’d done. 😀

E-bay should be turned off after 10.30 on Friday nights!

Hey, lay off the Scalextric habit

I blame you. 😀

My son and I have amassed quite a fleet of vehicles since Saturday. One more (another 80s rally car) and we’re done… for now.

It’s the same with selling – nothing more deflating than an auction that doesn’t go well.

nothing more deflating than an auction that doesn’t go well.

Yes there is.

One that goes really well then you find out the barsteward has no intention of paying or didn’t ask Mummy first 👿

True – fortunately I have had very few of those, even risked sending a couple of items abroad and not had any problems.

Bought 2 sets of brakes on Saturday – won an auction to buy a front brake (which I needed) then had to win the auction to buy the matching back brake – same seller. Then 2 minutes later spot a set of front and rear new for the same money. So have to buy it as well.

So now have to sell the first pair back on ebay. The perils of bidding!

I love it when you really want a particular item, and you manage to get it for much less than you wanted, or beat someone else in the last 5 seconds by a few quid 😀

I was climbing last weekend with only an hour to go until the auction ended for something I really wanted. I didn’t have a signal on the face I was climbing so absolutely powered on to get to the top. Managed to get one bar on the iphone, logged in and snapped the item up with seconds to go. That’s extreme Ebay-ing! I unintentionally set the fastest time I’ve ever climbed that face too.

I was absolutely buzzing when I got down. I saved about £250 (Linn Classik Movie Di, to replace a part in my multiroom set up) on how much they normally go for 2nd hand.

One that goes really well then you find out the barsteward has no intention of paying or didn’t ask Mummy first

Weren’t selling a Skoda a few years ago were you Woody? 😳

I have a friend who talks frequently of “winning” auctions. It seems to me, paying more than anyone else wanted to is not any definition of the word winning I recognise. Do occasionally get some proper bargains of course.

Weren’t selling a Skoda a few years ago were you Woody?

Nah. It was a ‘hardcore’ hardtail designed if IIRC (possible) by Pete Tomkins son and I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called, which is going to annoy me now. Anyone?

the bloke reading the pace notes needs to get some bi-focals.

Very good! 😀

I like it when you buy something (in our case a playpen/room divider), use it for 18 months then sell it again for a profit 🙂

Ebay ought to have a sobriety test you need to pass before you are allowed to buy anything! 😮

I bought a putter I don’t actually want or need last night, because it was shiny. Literally shiny:

Bloody ebay.

I guess you’re happy with you’re putter then?!

LOL at the Bifocal co-driver too. excellent.

I’m not actually… I genuinely don’t want it.

I only meant to post one pic of it but I grabbed the URL for the picture from the Ebay add and he’s stuck all the sodding photos together as a single huge image…

ooooooooooooooooooh shiny.
no wonder you couldn’t resist 🙂

Woody – wasn’t it Base or Bank or something short that began with B?

Aye it was base bikes by jamie tompkins

I refuse to bid on ebay …. If i want something i want it now …. If im prepared to loose it in an auction then i didnt really needed. Its rare i want something i cant get else where – is that wrong ?

Ebay roulette is the best, bid on something you don’t want/need/can’t afford. You win if someone outbids you. Play with friends (all bid on different items) and the person who bids the highest amount but doesn’t win, wins.

I think the best i’ve managed is a brand new pompino frame/fork/hset/seatpost/saddle for 65 quid.

Pure leap of faith bid.

my paypal account is locked and it’s probably for the best

tthew you need to go looking for that skoda again

Nice Cossie. I have two different Lotus 7s, TR7, 70s 911, old and new GT40s, Lotus JPS and 6 wheeler March GP. Can’t beat a rainy Sunday afternoon’s racing.

Base bikes, that’s the one. I can go to sleep now. Thanks Rickos and TR