To wage this war against your faith in me

[exsequar]

Dudettes! I would like your advice.

So erode and I are in a bit of a pickle. The MCR tickets we were buying fell through because the person selling them found out she could go after all. So, needless to say, we still REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO.

Enter eBay. Oh god.

So there's this one person selling several pairs of tickets in a really good section of the arena. They're not suuuuper expensive either. I'd love to get a pair at a reasonable price, but I'm not sure how to go about it. I haven't bid yet because I think that just encourages the price to go higher, right? Three of the auctions end tonight so I plan to keep a hawk eye on them to the bitter end and hopefully emerge victorious at the last second. It's risky though because there's no way of knowing what kind of max bid the person who's already bid has made. This is why I hate auctions! Augh.

So, is there anyone familiar with eBay auctions who can give me some advice on how to proceed? Here are the auctions I'm looking at. I've got my eye on the one that ends the earliest, but there's a couple that end a couple hours later that have no bids yet, so I'm gonna see how it goes. But anyway, advice? Please? We reeeeeeally want to go and I'd hate to be disappointed because I failed at eBay.

Gah. *flailyhands* I WANNA GO. MYCHEM. GAHHH. HELP.

Comments

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

All you can really do is put the most amount of money you'd be willing to spend as your highest bid and hope the other person's is higher, unfortunately. :/

*buys hats on ebay*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Blah, I was hoping someone would have some exciting insight for me. I fully comprehend the basic ideas of it! I guess it just kind of comes down to hoping :(

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it kind of sucks. some people try to snipe auctions by bidding at the last second, but really, there's no more assurance that your bid will win.

[radiogaga3.livejournal.com]

Well, a couple of those tickets are Buy It Now. I have no idea if those are good tickets, or if those are the ones you want, but if you want to make sure that you do get tickets, you could always go buy those.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

The Buy It Now ones are so expensive I'd have to promise the seller my firstborn. I want to go, but I also would like to eat for the duration of my stay in Dublin :-/ I would have liked some reasonably priced Buy It Now ones though, sigh.

[crystal-lily.livejournal.com]

I've actually bought a lot of stuff on eBay before, but I usually stick to rather cheap stuff. I don't think I've even bought anything that cost more than $15 on eBay. :/

I usually bid on the things at the very last minute too, but I don't really think that it matter. All that really matters eventually is how much money you're willing to spend on it. Other than that, don't have a lot of insight for you, sorry hon. :/