YAET

[DrPizza]

Weird stressful situation:
3 auctions ending 1 minute apart for identical items...
I'm winning one auction (with the only bid)
During the final minute, I have all 3 open, so I can snipe the 2nd or 3rd in case I myself get sniped on the first auction.

Then the stress starts.... refresh refresh refresh....

Now, wtf... no other site that I know of causes this problem, but if I spend more than 10 or 15 minutes on ebay, it crashes my router. (I can't get to anywhere on the internet), and I have to reboot the router.

Last night, I was actually sniped with 3 minutes to go on the exact same items... and suddenly, ebay pages wouldn't load! Minimum bid was $6.99 on the item I bid on... I put in 12. Someone outbid me, with 2 other of the SAME item for sale with no bids, ending within minutes. My router doomed me to losing and not being able to bid on the other auctions.... (which, oddly, ended without the items being sold - wtf did someone outbid me?!)

To make a too long story shorter... tonight, I won. Finally. With the minimum bid. (yes, ebay experts, I bid what I was willing to pay which was much higher than what I won the auction for)


Note: I know this isn't the hardware forum... but anyone have any clue why my router would hate ebay? Netgear RP614. It dies on ebay all the time!


sorry.. cliffnotes:
Router knocks me off ebay.. end of auction approaches..
will I be sniped? will router crash?
I won!
wtf is wrong with router - ebay specific problem.

 

[Jzero]

You should be using a sniping program. I don't know about the free ones, but esnipe.com lets you group auctions so that if you win an earlier one, it doesn't bother bidding on later ones, but if you lose, it goes for the later ones automatically. It's a great feature.

And it eliminates end of auction stress - with apologies to Ron Popeil, you just set it and forget it.

 

[dabuddha]

I have that same router sitting in my closet and I've never liked it. I got like 10 of them on the "penny" deal last year.