outbidded!! outbidded!! goddamit!

I was eagerly watching an item on ebay for days. My game plan was wait until the final minutes before placing my bid so I can outbid the previous bidders at such a low price. That method is called "sniping". What got me were bidders using auction bots!!!

Turns out, those suckers are using bots that automatically places bids higher than what the a would be bidder would place! And so, I got out-bidded! Hahaha!

It was the perfect plan. In less than a minute, I placed a bid of 9.41 dollars.. higher than the current. Then right after I press 'submit', a bid is automatically higher than me! I bid a little higher again, then before I know it, there's automatically a bid higher than mine... by the same bidder! In less than 30 seconds, the bidding war gone through. Eventually, a third bidder bids at the last second.. 20 dollars. Yet he still didn't win. The bot bidded a few cents higher at the last nano-second!

Frustrating! I should have bidded 1k so the fool with the auto bot would end up paying more than 1k for the stupid item. Haha!

On a brighter note, Donna agreed to be my proxy in the States! Yay!!! ;p I will address all my purchases from stateside to her, and kung marami na, tsaka ko ibabalik-bayan box para sulit ang bayad! Hahaha! Thanks Donna!! ;p (and btw, ingat talaga sa pating.. narinig ko madalas raw ang shark attacks diyan! haha! ;p)