The can is back on t'bay or another just like it from the same seller!
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6 bids and £36 already
John
Currently looking for Baikal Makarov pistols with the following prefixes to the serial number: 98, T01, T09, T21, T22
Prefer boxed or cased but will consider loose examples too.
Same oil can and pics,, Lets see how many report it this time round..
I suspect someone bought it without due diligence, and it's back on with the same false description of it being an original and not a reproduction.
Hi Pete,
I watched the final minutes of the first sale on the site and the winning bid went in a just a few second before the end, so unlikely it was placed by the seller.
You would have thought he would have waited for the dust settle before putting an identical dodgy item on the site.
I reported the last one to both the site and the seller, which was completely ignored, so caveat emptor I guess.
It would not have been so bad had the description read "possibly original", but he categorically states that it is original.
Brian
You were not alone Brian.
It was reported as fake by many and nothing was done
I have never understood the point of sniping. If you put in a limit bid then the system will auromatically outbid the current highest bid by the minimum amount. Any further bids and the system will bid again for you by the minimum amount and keep doing that until you either win or hit your limit. Late snipers cannot defeat this because if there is a late bid the system will allow a little more time for more bids. Agreed sniping can defeat those bidders who want to manually make each bid, but only if they are slow or not watching at the close of the auction. A limit bid has the same effect.
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Sniping bids avoid competing against shill bidders
The ‘bay in U.K. and ‘gun in Germany sites don’t have that late bid system you mention.
Although I have seen it on certain European auction sites.
A last second bid of the maximum you are prepared to pay stops other bidders responding by increasing their bids incrementally, which pushes the final price up (which is how some people bid)
You have to know how much your prepared to pay and go all in, and if you’re lucky you’ll win it for less than that.
I think shill bids are just to push the price up so a last second shill bid runs the risk of being the actual winning bid which might defeat the point of it.
Matt