Kicking myself

Thanks Merle. I would place my highest bid I am willing to go and simply walk away, rather than try to snipe the auction at the last minute.

Would have really liked the tree motion, never climbed in a cadillac before!
 
Maybe not addressing what caused the loss here but, everyone who uses ebay should know about Bidrobot.com.

Sign up and enter your highest amount willing to pay there. Then you are not giving people six days to mull over how much they are willing to top the last guy who bid (adding to bidding frenzy.) Bidrobot will snipe bid in the last seconds for you. (It has other features too.)

With Bidrobot I have saved a bunch over what I would have been willing to bid.
 
I'm a big fan of www.esnipe.com I've been using it to win ebay auctions for years. There's something very fishy about a person ending an auction so soon after an initial bid. I'm thinking somebody's boyfriend found out she was selling his gear. Smells highly of drama.
 
Those sites are good ideas. eBay has a built in bidder that will outbid others until it reaches a cap you set for it. Only downside is it does it right away.

I don't think that guy was in it for recreation, I think he decided to make his day job and realized he wasn't cut out for it. My theory anyway.
 
Matt J Leppek said:
Those sites are good ideas. eBay has a built in bidder that will outbid others until it reaches a cap you set for it. Only downside is it does it right away.

I don't think that guy was in it for recreation, I think he decided to make his day job and realized he wasn't cut out for it. My theory anyway.
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My guess as well. A little too much money and not quite enough real life experience. He did at least get good gear in that regard but still weird nonetheless. I'm not sure how much tree work you can actually do with only a small saw.
 
Looked like mostly pruning work, I didn't see anything that indicated rigging, so maybe he wasn't planning on doing removals, or just didn't know the difference...

If I only did pruning I wouldn't mind the 192
 
CanadianStan said:
My guess as well. A little too much money and not quite enough real life experience. He did at least get good gear in that regard but still weird nonetheless. I'm not sure how much tree work you can actually do with only a small saw.
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Nothing looked like it had been actually used which is odd because they never got to find out whether they were cut out for it. Reminds me of the time I was in a pro camera store staring at gear I couldn't afford and a guy walked in and bought 8k worth of Nikon gear, by his questions he wasn't a pro, definitely a rec photographer.
 
As a videographer (what I'm going to school for) it's sad to see people with really nice equipment who don't know how to use it, nor appreciate what they have. Same thing goes for tree work, only photography won't get you killed...
 
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