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#509099 Tue Jan 28 2014 07:47 AM
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Last night I made a horrible mistake! Another Old Gasser and myself had teamed up to buy this plate on ebay last night and were going to enter a final bid that was surely high enough to obtain the plate. We had a formula worked out to decide which of us would be the owner in the end and all seemed well.
Here is where human error came into play. The auction wouldn't go off until about 11:15 pm and I was tired as all heck, so I set my cell phone alarm to wake me at 11 in case I fell asleep! Well, the unimaginable happened and my alarm didn't go off and I missed the auction and let my friend down terribly! As per our formula, he would have been the new owner of the plate and we would have both been smiling! Instead, I messed up bad and could hardly sleep last night.
If anyone on this site was lucky enough to win the auction for this plate and aren't completely glued to it---I would gladly give a major profit to you and give the plate to the person I let down. I realize that its only another sign, but this meant a lot to my friend and I am at fault for him not owning it today! Hopefully I can locate the sign and make amends for my horrible oversight. If anyone has it and can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks---KEVIN
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this is a good example where a "snipe" would
have come into play- that is only the 3rd one
of the Mobilfuel Diesel Special that I've seen-
even Pegasus (Richard Weir) didn't have that sign,
extremely RARE, somebody got a good buy
I have one but this one was nicer.. cool

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Look at the Item Specifics box, seller put it as a reproduction.
He must have made a mistake.

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Sorry to hear it didn't work out....I was the second bidder. Thought the sign would sell for a lot more! I figured that low number feedback was not you Kevin when I looked this morning to see where it ended.
I've seen that buyer buying Mobil items as I recognize the low feedback and the letters are the same that I've seen on some other higher dollar Mobil items, not that it probably helps any.
Darin

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Kevin, I am with Randy,Why didnt youre friend snipe it? If you really want something bad, Thats the way to do it! Hope you find one.

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it's a long shot but why don't you contact the original seller & see if he will give you the information of the person who purchased it or have him contact that person to see if he can give you that buyers information


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Why don't contact the seller and offer him more money for it?

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Originally Posted By: signgod2112
Why don't contact the seller and offer him more money for it?


because that would be super shady to do to the actual winner. best way to do it is to try and track down the winner and offer him a profit to resell the piece

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Agreed Bryce. Despicable actually.

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I did contact the seller and he knows the buyer and is going to check with him to see if he will resell it! Maybe it will all work out? My friend is not mad at me and understands that things happen, but we're a little disappointed, as I'm sure we would have owned that plate!
I do my own sniping because I have a pass key to access my ebay and paypal accounts and that doesn't work with sniping services. After I had my accounts hacked into at one time, I went with eBay's access key system and you have to push a button on the key and then enter the 6 digit code that comes up. Pretty foolproof.


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not stray off-topic... but what Kevin mentions above is one downside to sniping - giving ebay login information to a 3rd party. If you do snipe, BE SURE to ALWAYS keep your paypal password different than your Ebay password.


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ok iam going to ask a dumb question here, what is sniping? you all are talking about

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Originally Posted By: BlkAngus
ok iam going to ask a dumb question here, what is sniping? you all are talking about


Sniping is a paid service that will automatically place a bid for you in the closing seconds of the auction. You have to give them your username and password.

You can place a small bid early through our Oldgas.com eBay search form or "Right Now on eBay" links. Then set up your snipe for the end of the auction.

I've never had any problem with AuctionSniper.com
http://www.auctionsniper.com/


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