How do you get the best success on YJ?

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:16 pm

Ashura wrote: Hey Kittens, we are cel buddies. The Kenshin OVA of Himura gashing from his mouth and forehead, I have the sequence right before it. A8

Ah, yay!!!! That was you who won the cel

Yay

I am soooooooooooooooooooo glad that someone in beta get the cel

Do you have a glallery which I can look at and enjoy your cels????

Ashura · Post by **Ashura** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:50 pm

My boyfriend is scanning all the cels in for me. Right now he is finishing up the yard. I've been busy doing nothing that I still haven't finished watching Naruto ep. 120.

I will PM you the link when he finishes. Actually......... let me see if he can just put the Himura Cel for now and finish the rest later.

Ashura

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:21 pm

Woohoo!!!! I cannot wait to see your Kenshin cels

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please let me know an url for your gallery

Ashura · Post by **Ashura** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:38 pm

PM Sent, Kittens

metheus · Post by **metheus** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:40 pm

I still prefer the old (last minute - bid your max) method. No warning shots, just drop the bomb and move on. Win or loose it's my favorite strategy, though interesting reading in this thread. Do sellers close auctions prematurely on a large scale if the don't see any activity. One would think by now everyone's familiar with sniping?

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:47 pm

Ashura wrote:PM Sent, Kittens

Thanks

It is soooooooooooooooooo nice! I cannot wait your next update

Ashura · Post by **Ashura** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:49 pm

metheus wrote: Do sellers close auctions prematurely on a large scale if the don't see any activity. One would think by now everyone's familiar with sniping?

Yes, I think most sellers know about bid snipping.

But if there is no reserve and the bids are low, sellers tend to get scared, regardless of the knowledge of bid sniping. I mean, if you bought a cel for $300, for a week the highest bid is at $49 and you have about 10 minutes left to go, I would get antsy as well.

From what I've seen, I saw a seller here recently end their auction because it was so low.

Ashura

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:52 pm

I usually put in a small bid not for testing the waters though. Mine's more of a territorial bid. I'm just saying, "Hey, I'm going after this." During the last 24 hours of the auction, I'll return and put my max in and let it ride. Most of those auctions end around 6am or 7am when I'm sound asleep. I refuse to lose sleep over auctions. (I'm trying to keep my priorities straight.

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One time, as a massive favor, I got up for the end of an auction. Battled the extension for an hour just to lose. I told the person I was bidding for, "Next time listen to me when I tell you just pick a max and stick with it." I find getting up for the end of YJ auctions to be extremely costly.

ebay's another story. I'm your typical sniper over there.

In_Gabriel_We_Trust · Post by **In_Gabriel_We_Trust** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:44 am

duotrouble wrote:I usually put in a small bid not for testing the waters though. Mine's more of a territorial bid. I'm just saying, "Hey, I'm going after this."

Same here.
But after that, all strategy is off.
I tend to have a maximum range instead of a bid, and depending on the auction, I may use the full range or not, even if it means not winning the auction.

Goldknight · Post by **Goldknight** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:54 am

Heh. This topic is interesting. I voted the second one where you test the waters and then try to snipe at the end. Snipe is pretty much impossible on YJ because of that extended feature. Same on Mandarake. I took an auction for two Battousai Kenshin cels for 1:30 extra. Jenn_b and I were going to split it and got into a bidding match with Twisty. Whew was that intense. In the end I gave in because after awhile it because more a game of who can beat the other.....not who has enough money for the actual cels. You can get lost in it and really dig yourself into a deep hole. Be oh so careful.

Lately instead of sniping I contact the seller and make an offer to end the auction early. Then I don't have any competition that way. That's how I've won various auctions like my baby inuyasha sketches and DN Angel production sketches.

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:05 am

I too voted for the second option.
I place a "I'm here/territorial bid" at the beginning of the auction and then wait till the last minutes to place my maximum bid.

darksuzaku · Post by **darksuzaku** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:02 am

seems that the "territorial bid" thing is quite common. I also place those kind of bids, just to warn my potential oponnents that they will have a though one with me

though, it's better if you have your own account to place these bids, because if you bid through a deputy service it really means nothing unless you just want to place an early bid to make the seller know that the auction will sell.

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:23 am

^ Yes and no

With Rinkya, you do know which other bidder is bidding against you if they use Rinkya too

RX78GP02AGUNDAM · Post by **RX78GP02AGUNDAM** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:37 am

I dont like using my ID to show people Im going after something. I would use a different ID to place a bid in, to lower the chances of a seller ending an auction if they were to get an offer to buy out. Don't think the whole bidding at the end thing makes much of a difference. People bid high either way, its just how much sooner the auction price goes up, at the begining or at the end. That way I can give up sooner. Like those Shishio cels...

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:56 am

RX78GP02AGUNDAM wrote:Like those Shishio cels...

Oh, I did not see the end of the auction!!! Did you get them????

Anime-Beta TNG

How do you get the best success on YJ?

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