eBay - and waiting for stuff to close - and planning your day around that

[cymbidia]

How often do you find yourself thinking, "Well THAT thing will close in one hour and three minutes. Then i can take a quick shower and go do these two errands and be back before this OTHER thing closes in 3 hours and 46 minutes"?

Am i alone in this?

I don't do it too often. I've got the demon eBay bidding impulse under control (for now) but occasionally i get a wild hair and bid on, oh, seven or ten things (knowing - hoping? - i don't have a chance in hell of winning most of them) and then watch them obsessively as they wind down to a finish.

Right now it's gloves. White, silver, blue, red, gold... i already have black. Long. Way up my arm. I love gloves. He loves me in gloves.

And corsets. I have one and i need another. Or two. Red... and white. I have a black one. Bared breasts or covered. All with garters, of course, and real boning, and ties in the back to make them as tight as he wishes it to be.

58 minutes: then i'll take a shower and go do errands.
Real fast.

 

[Gilly Bean]

OOooo... Corsets n gloves.... -drools-



Ok, no fair, I don't fit IN a corset!


I want a black one, ooo... and I found this really nice red satin material one, that has little chinese dragons on it.... and I want garters and thigh highs to match!


-sobs-

I seriously have to stay away from ebay. That place is NOT good for my paycheck!

 

[Laurel]

LOL!

I'm a closet eBay junkie myself. Over the years, I've been both a buyer and a seller. I definitely feel your pain.

 

[cymbidia]

OOooo... Corsets n gloves.... -drools-

Ok, no fair, I don't fit IN a corset!

Have you looked? Really looked? I KNOW there's corsets on eBay to fit all body types, from downright skinny right through way voluptuous. Get one of the ones that laces up the back - buy it according to your bra size - and then lace it as tightly or loosely as you need. If it closes via those laces, you *will* fit into it, darlin', no matter if you end up buying longer laces to make it work.



21 mins, 44 secs until i post a kamikazi last second winning bid on these long white gloves... thereby screwing that person who outbid me on these yesterday and thinks i'm just gonna accept losing them.

 

[MissTaken]

Good Luck, Cym!



And it is nice to see you here at the boards.

 

[Gilly Bean]

Have you looked? Really looked? I KNOW there's corsets on eBay to fit all body types, from downright skinny right through way voluptuous. Get one of the ones that laces up the back - buy it according to your bra size - and then lace it as tightly or loosely as you need. If it closes via those laces, you *will* fit into it, darlin', no matter if you end up buying longer laces to make it work.



21 mins, 44 secs until i post a kamikazi last second winning bid on these long white gloves... thereby screwing that person who outbid me on these yesterday and thinks i'm just gonna accept losing them.

-sobs- They don't make em for the beach ball impaired!

-sobs-


I just have to wait until Valentines Day. By then, I will fit in one. And hopefully, will have lost the excess baby weight. Ok, so, for Valentines Day, I just have to order a nice red satin one, with red satin gloves, and thigh highs, and a thong, and maybe rent a room at a hotel where there are NO KIDS!

 

[Styphon]

Hello

Don't you use the "sniper" programs? They would save you having to wait around, as the bids are automated. The AuctionTamer site, at http://www.auctiontamer.com is even better than some of the bidder programs!

It is a free web tool (for buyers) that runs from a program, and it will place your bid for you when you are off-line, which is nice.

If you put a bid in, it treats it as a maximum bid, and if the current bid is lower than yours, it will bid one increment higher, so if you bid $20, and the item is currently at $12, AuctionTamer will bid, say, $12.50 or whatever the next bid increment is. It will do it in the last few seconds for you, too, which is even nicer!

The program has a 'drag and drop' feature, so you drag the items you want to watch/bid on into the program, and you can monitor who is bidding what, how long is left and so on... Great fun!

Styphon

 

[Gilly Bean]

Yeah, but what fun is that? It is fun to sit back and watch as someone who THINKS they are winning, lose. Then you can point at the computer and laugh, and have a merry old time!


Really, I am not the only one who does that... am i?

I mean.... i was just joking.... umm... -eep-

 

[cymbidia]

Actually, eBay has an "automatic bidder" program of the type you described as a standard feature, Styphon. The trouble comes when more than one person is very interested in something that has *not* been bid up during the days before the bidding is to close. In that case (my case, currently - 9 mins, 53 secs left), one has to be there at the close, ready to slip a last minute and hopefully higher bid in for the item because one suspects the competition of doing the same.

If i wanted to, i could put in an automatic bid for these gloves of, say, $20. The bidding would go up, my competition against me, until i reached $20, then my bidding would stop. However, my competition - if s/he was present and i was not - could then up the bid to $20.50 and get the gloves even though i was ready to go to $25 perhaps, if i had been here.

7 mins, 59 secs ... gotta go...



MissTaken... hugs 'n kisses to you. Thank you. It's good to be back.

 

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[Bigdog]

Cymbidia:

If you don't want to mess with a "sniper "program, just get a digital timer or stopwatch and set it to the time remaining on the closest auction. I've done that for several years, once you learn how long your computer takes to submit a bid you can push the envelope pretty tight. Back when I had money, I could routinely hit 5 to 7 seconds before the ending time.

Happy Hunting!

 

[Gilly Bean]

Bad Cym! Now I am cruising Ebay for a corset. Found one, too!


Here is what I want for Christmas, in case anyone is nice enough, and loves me enough... hint hint Lekov.....


http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1652431159

 

[cymbidia]

Got 'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a pair of black gloves just like these, and now i'll have a pair of white ones too. I feel the need for other colors coming on strong... oh Lord! Gimmee some pink gloves! Some red ones, Lord! I need some purple gloves, too, Lord!

Ohhhhh... MS is gonna like this.


(Hi MHoney, sweetie, darlin', lovey. Oh man. I'm on a winnner's high! I've mostly tamed my eBay additction, too. Really. No - really! )

Now, off to take a shower and get a few errands done before my death watch on a red (yes, i said RED) corset in a couple hours. Don't try to make me stay here and while away my time in frivolous pursuits, either, dammit.

The gloves look like these except they're Ultra Long & Sexy Stretch Satin White Gloves.

 

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[ohiobbw]

Like MistressHoney, I have beaten my ebay addiction (just barely) and now I'm addicted to this site. It's cheaper this way!

But ebay is dangerously addictive, it's a rush when you win!

 

[Merelan]

You shouldn't have placed a link to that corset. Now we ladies will all be out bdding each other to win it. My word. Lovely, lovely, lovely.... and with long black gloves?

Watch out.

 

[Gilly Bean]

You shouldn't have placed a link to that corset. Now we ladies will all be out bdding each other to win it. My word. Lovely, lovely, lovely.... and with long black gloves?

Watch out.

Isn't that black on beautiful! It's velvet and satin! I am in LOVE!

 

[Merelan]

It's mine bitch. Back off....

just teasing dear.

 

[Gilly Bean]

It's mine bitch. Back off....

just teasing dear.

-sneeeeeeeeeeeef-

 

[Renegade]

And I almost won a corset just like that last week......

 

[cymbidia]

Bah... who wants to see the model photos?

I want to see you *IN* them, cym!! Pics, please!!

Well. Gee. Here's a link to pics you might have already seen, piercing pics of me and MS. Middle of page 1, last pic, shows me wearing the long black gloves i've had for some time; they're the same as the white ones i just won today. Excuse me - glove. Not gloves. One glove - and not even all of that one. But, well, that's all i have to give at this time. So sorry! http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=45001

Remember - these are piercing pics. Please do not go look at the pic of the glove on my hand/arm if you don't mind seeing the nipple piercing, too. I've taken all the shit i want to take about posting these kinds of pics to the unaware.

This is your warning.
Don't follow the link unless you don't mind seeing nipple piercing on both MS and me.

 

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[cymbidia]

YAY!

I just won a pair of Ultra Long & Sexy Stretch Satin Red Gloves and another of Ultra Long & Sexy Stretch Satin Pink Gloves ! Same mfg, different auctions, less than half of what i paid for the white gloves, too (only $6.50/pair).

We still have silver, gold, and blue gloves open...

Fetishes are fun, aren't they?

 

[Merelan]

Damn. Thanks. More to spend money on. Never thought of gloves bt for some reason have thought of nothing but them in the last couple days. Oooh.... which to buy first.