I got a nice lot of clothes for Asa last night as well. A “one fell swoop” of what he needs for autum-winter. Earlier times pass downs from Russell worked alright if the season was right for size, as Asa is smaller than Russell was … born in April for R. and Septemer for A., as well as, like I said, Asa is smaller over all.
This morning the dress I was looking at wasn’t bid on until an hour before aution end. So I sniped it at the end, intening to get into a fight for it since it was such a low price, .99. No fight. I got it for 1.04. I am not thrilled with that, so I’ve written the seller to let me add some on to the price for her. 🙂 No reply so far. Maybe that’s an odd thing for me to do, but it just seems such a horrid thing to get something for so cheap, I mean, so cheap. And that is why I don’t, when I sell, start things THAT low, though if selling alot and really moving things, it’d be a tactic to use … that seller starts everything at .99, but this is a nice dress. Hmm, well that’s someone with a sensitive soul, me. 🙂
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Phew! Just won another auction on eBay. I was given the go-ahead to get a few things after we went to the outlet malls looking for two dresses for me, around 29.99 each, plus tax. We saw very little of anything we liked, and nothing in our price-range, and anyway the things we saw we liked were for, like dressing up to go to a concert, opera, etc (as I am want to do whenever such an occasion would arise.)
After the outlets we went to Dillards, and saw more there that I liked, but in the same range of “too dressy” for church or at home or going out to eat normally. We did see a wool Pendleton skirt that I loved, blue plaid, pleated, very long. Price was way too long to consider though.
So back home, worn out feet. We thought, going into the day, that we’d find SOMETHING.
In the past Eddie Bauer has had things suitable. Dresses, that is. Of late, the past few months, when we go by the outlet version in a local-ish outlet-sort-of mall they have NO dresses, and a few short skirts.
Online, their outlet store has had little, more now, but I narrowed it down to three possible choices, and none of them thrilled me at all. I mean, not at all. So I looked at those in the morning of that day we went out to the large outlet shopping area North of us. I told Frank that I’d consider what I saw on EB online, and hope to find something better while out.
Well, once back home it was a “Nothing from EB either” attitude I had.
“Let me go on eBay and show you what I can find”, I told him.
I have a Jonathan Martin Silk Dress on it’s way, for a pitance of a price.
Two LL Bean Denim longsleeve dresses, from different auctions, one a pitance of a price, the other much more, so I averaged them together and say: “two great deals!” though the larger priced one was still cheap, at just three-times-five-plus-one-hundred-and-nine-pennies.
I’m watching another silk dress due to go tomorrow morning, and it starts at .99 with no bids yet.
That’s all for me. It’ll be welcomed!
For Victoria I was watching many auctions, little girl stuff CAN be hard to get reasonably, or within your reasonable thought process. I half-heartedly bid on a few last night, and lost them. I didn’t snipe as usual, as I saw no need to since I “knew” in my heart I couldn’t get the things, but “you never know …”.
We only wear dresses, so I was looking for LOTS of dresses. I saw many dresses in other mixed lots, but that’s just futilish frustrated thinking to look at those things since I wouldn’t consider them due to weird shirts and pants in the LOT. One thing I lost was a dresses LOT.
So I started looking at cardigans for her, a nice white like button down cardigan to wear over dresses for church, for example. I found relatively few in the 6x/7 range, and a couple went for more than I was willing to put out, or while we were at church a couple went on Sunday. I found a couple more listed to end on Tuesday/Wednesday so focused on that. I lost one that I bid on last night which was a hard loss, romantic thoughts for things being bid on is NOT recommended. 😉
The auction that I just won was for the last sweater I could find that fit my audition for what we needed. It has two flowers embroidered on it, with tulle and such, so pretty, dainty. That was my “Phew!” above that started this post. I sweated that one out.
I often will snipe, the times that I do have money to spend. It’s a satisfying way to eBay. It’s like playing your cards close to hand and chest to the last second.
I did a modified snipe on the sweater. I waited until less than a minute was left, then placed the bid. By the time I got through the stuff, I have 45 seconds to wait. Eek! But I’ve run into trouble with eBay and what I have to enter to bid sometimes, thinking I’m logged it makes me enter my name and password … well, I AM logged in then, but whatever. [I have me logged in with the option to stay that way unless I log myself out manually.]
I used a program for while back in November/December when I first was eBaying. I used it’s auto snipe feature and really liked it. I don’t use it now since it was a free-for-a-while-thing, and didn’t value it’s use to pay as much as they wanted after the beginning free-time.
I figure for most things, if you have the will power and the money to back you, you can get most anything you want on eBay. Talking within reason for mostly clothing, books, etc. not extravagent things. Just pick a top price for your item, and snipe it with that. Losing auctions happens when you can’t pick a top price that you know would be better. So you may lose an auction by just a measly 50 cents. It’s a guessing game.
Sometimes I jump the gun and bid earlier. Rarely does that work well. I find it helped me in one of the LL Bean dresses I talked about. But for the other one, I nearly lost it. It ended right around midnight. Frank was out late for work, and I watched it all evening, then put a larger bid on it, but two plus hours before it was to end. Then I went to bed, seeing as I was very tired. I read a bit, then fell asleep, with the light on. Frank got home, and I woke up right then, with two cats lying on me, I was unable to move my arms and legs (as is usual when awaking fast) and I felt a migraine boring burningly into my right side of head. My mind instantly sprang to the auction, and wasn’t sure what time it was, figured it was over. I finally heaved the cats off of me and jumped out of bed and went downstairs to the computer. I clicked the link I’d made on the desktop and the auction for the LL Bean dress opened … with seconds left. I was outbid. Should I ….
It started at 1.97, I was the bidder that bid first, I entered 11.00 for my top bid. I was outbid right near the end. But I was there, providentially all of the sudden. I entered more, and that was outbid, and I did another entry, SURE that it was really over by now, not knowing what time it was or when the auction was really ending. That took and then the auction was over. Phew! That was a heady experience.
I won by .50 at $15.38over 14.88– the last minute bidder hadn’t put a higher value price in. She’d benefit abiding by my rules:
Rules: bid a few dollars OVER what your top bid is in order to OVER TAKE a bid that is UNDER that, but OVER your top bid by a pitance. A whole 5-plus increment jump is best.
NEVER do 5, 10, 15, 20 etc. Always do one dollar over that, never under, under, under, but go up a notch or two and magic happens.
Not 14.88, but 16.88 [if you must put in a cents amount like that 🙂 ]
Now, that’d not help her as my first bid was 11, then when I jumped in the fray at the end in my sleepy state I bid “13.00” as that was more than the last bid was, not knowing if it was that persons top bid or not. It wasn’t. But 14.88 was, and that wasn’t found out until afterwards, since there were seconds and counting when I put in my last bid of … 15.50. See, my RULES would have had me lose that time if she had bid 16.00 instead of 14.88. I’d have lost since my sleepy state had me do a .50 over a major increment. So since I had a better bid instead of losing I got it for 15.38, NOT the top bid price I input at the last second, but nearly. 🙂
My thinking in going in on that was: two LL Bean dresses offered same night ending, different sellers. First one I was the only bidder. So at the point I went to bed there was no other bid but mine. I chanced it. I had actually put a bid on the dress earlier, then added to it when I went to bed, just in case. So my into the fray frantic last second bidding had me doing odd things, for me.
So today another auction was for Victoria, a LOT of 11 sweaters, I sniped in with 22.50, at the end, seeing as I saw a lot of “.50” additions around the last few days, and to get atop a “21.00” bid nicely. So the other persons top bid was 16.56. Not including shipping, that ended up as about 1.50 per sweater. Less than a buck each to ship added on, and UPS will bring them to my door for my dear Victoria soon.
The thing about these dresses and sweaters is, I wouldn’t be able to find these in stores. I couldn’t find such assortment easily at a Salvation Army. My tired feet HATE shopping, but I LOVE shopping on eBay!
eBay might have new or used stuff. Mostly LIKE new if it’s not new. Online shopping is great too, but I am a sales price kind of lady. It’s a must for us. Slim pickin’s out there. eBay brings the best of garage sales to your computer.
When ever I’ve had a bit of money to spend, eBay has been the source for the things we’ve gotten. I mean, they weren’t findable other ways for some, and for much less for others.
One last thing, got this last week, a “Buy It Now” featured Leather Jacket for Russell. It arrived today. Oooh it’s nice. It retails for 49.99-89.99 on online shops. Drop shipper sells wholesale nearly. $25 INCLUDING shipping.
This post is my after-thought process and I may have messed up my Rules and such in how they work, so don’t adopt the ideas here without thinking them through yourself, should you want to do such thing. 😉
Well, it’s the 25th of August, the month is going fast. Asa turns 4 on the 13th of September, so now I must turn my mind towards that event and decide what to do. I despise going to Toys R Us and such, plastic junk. 🙂 So with my thinking cap on to eBay I go again, to search and browse.
Happy eBaying everyone!