15mm DBA FoG DBMM Pro Painted Anglo-Danish Army

[neldoreth]

Hey all,

I am selling my recently completed III/71 Anglo-Danish army. It is a fantastic army in looks and I will certainly be sad to see it go, but alas I need some funds for other projects! The auction is on eBay and the bidding starts at 99 cents!:

15mm DBA FoG DBMM Pro Painted Anglo-Danish Army Auction



It even comes with a pretty nice camp that I put together for it:



Thanks guys!
n.

[Tony Aguilar]

Didn't even play with it once?

[neldoreth]

I did play with it once! It was a great game, my Khurasan Normans vs. these guys. It was a close, well fought game, that lead me to add the psiloi element! It is a great looking and feeling army, but I have to let it go!

n.

[neldoreth]

Only an hour left on the auction!

Thanks,
n.

[Dalekantagonistic]

Damm, I really thought I had it when I placed a bid in the last few minutes but got outbid on the very last second (according to the bid log) by some new party outa the blue. Gotta learn how one can place an ebay bid in the very last second of an auction . Clearly I'm an ebay sniping newbie. Kicking myself for being too cheap and not setting a much higher maximum bid worthy of some great figs. I would have certainly bid more, oh well.

Now I've got to actually finish painting up my own Anglo-Danish figures I bought a few months ago.

The new owner got a real bargain. Neldoreth paintjobs and modeling are some of the best I've ever seen or played against.

PS. I've googled and found sellers of software that enables last second ebay bidding (Auction Sniper)...sigh.

[David Schlanger]

It was purely manual, I promise you.

DS

Originally Posted by Dalekantagonistic

Damm, I really thought I had it when I placed a bid in the last few minutes but got outbid on the very last second by some new party outa the blue. Gotta learn how one can place an ebay bid in the very last second of an auction . Clearly I'm an ebay sniping newbie. Kicking myself for being too cheap and not setting a much higher maximum bid worthy of some great figs. I would have certainly bid more, oh well.

Now I've got to actually finish painting up my own (Old Glory) Anglo-Danish figures.

The new owner got a real bargain. Neldoreth paintjobs and modeling are some of the best I've ever seen or played against.

PS. I've googled and found sellers of software that enables last second ebay bidding (Auction Sniper)...sigh.

[Dalekantagonistic]

I feel like Harold holding his eye and cursing the archer.....

[Tony Aguilar]

You don't have to bid in the last second, you just have to bid with so little time left that no one can respond.

[David Kuijt]

Originally Posted by Dalekantagonistic

Gotta learn how one can place an ebay bid in the very last second of an auction . Clearly I'm an ebay sniping newbie. Kicking myself for being too cheap and not setting a much higher maximum bid worthy of some great figs. I would have certainly bid more, oh well.

There are two good ways to win the sniping game: (1) spend a lot of time on it, or (2) ignore it, and make sure you set your initial maximum bid to be your true maximum, not your "I hope I get it cheap" maximum.

Almost everyone is bad at #2, which is why sniping happens at all.

But even if you want to play the sniping game, you need to know what your true maximum is -- nobody has enough time to snipe twice (i.e., snipe once and then notice they didn't win and snipe again). So snipers, even more than regular bidders, must know what their maximum is when they snipe. And if you do that, you don't need to snipe at the last second -- I start my final bid at 20-25 seconds remaining, which means it gets sent at about 15 seconds remaining, which means that ebay processes it with 5-10 seconds remaining, which means that others get notice (if they are playing the refresh-constantly game) too late to make another bid successfully.

Sniping isn't any better than regular bidding, in terms of making sure you get an item where you know how much you want it for (what your True Bid should be). In fact, it's worse, because real life might prevent you from having a snipe opportunity. The thing it is good for is taking advantage of other people who don't really know their own True Bid value, so they are bidding small thinking that has something to do with winning an auction small (it doesn't).

The fundamental rarely-understood truth is this: the value of your bid has nothing to do with how low you win an auction. It has to do with how low you LOSE an auction. The value of the second-highest bidder is the only thing that determines how much you pay for auctions you win.

Which is where sniping comes in. Because sniping is an attempt to take advantage of the poor self-True-Bid-understandings of your competitors, to reduce the chance of a high second-highest-bidder.

[Dalekantagonistic]

Originally Posted by Tony Aguilar

You don't have to bid in the last second, you just have to bid with so little time left that no one can respond.

Yes, that's why I've should have set a much higher maximum bid equal to what I would have really been willing to pay. I would have been outbid on price rather than time. Stupid mistake, live and learn. I think it's only the third time I've tried to buy something on ebay, a true newbie.

Glad it went to a Fanaticus rather than to a pure collector.