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Notaro ...
I am an avid ebayer and maybe I can answer a few things here. You said you bid on some gear and was outbid 4 times on it and then e-mailes the guy (or jerk as you put it) saying he saved 3 bucks, well he may have saved 3 bucks on the price outbidding you but he also had to pay shipping charges, so he saved nothing ... it cost him more than the item was worth.
But I also have to include this ... you said you bid on a few things and retracted your bids because you couldn't afford them, well when you do that the bid still stays up to the price that you bid and the next guy eats your error in bidding costing him more money. As the snipers where mentioned in this thread as being frowned upon so are the retractors because they both cause problems.
I have been on ebay for 3 years and have bought and sold on it and have done quite well in all my transactions, the reason for it is this " look at the feedback on the person you are dealing with" if there is any negative feedback look it up and see what the problem was, I personally won't deal with anyone with more than 5 negatives. Some people do get negatives from others that they either sold to or bought from for stupid reasons and this is called revenge feedback.
Ebay is awesome for alot of deals if you watch what you're doing and learn the system for bidding, almost 80% of items sold on ebay are bought by " snipers" its easy to do it, all you do is wait for the last 4 seconds of the auction and enter the most you would pay for the item and most of the time you'll win, after 3 seconds there isn't enough thime for someone to place another bid in time. I have 312 transactions on ebay and I'm sure I'll have alot more in the future.
Happy bidding! Go eBay!!!
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