Yipes!! Sounds like 'sour grapes' to me. I put in a bid for a cigar at a price I'm willing to pay and forget about the auction thereafter. If I later learn that I won, yippee. If I lose, oh well, on to other auctions.

I'm hoping what you've described isn't some schill working for the auction house (on ebay, some sellers were accused of arranging for schill bidders to drive up prices -- resulting in criminal investigations). Perhaps, they're just being driven by compulsion?

Geez louise! I just bid "my" price. I let no one dictate how high I want to go. If I see the auction bump up...I bail out.
I rarely pay more than a few bucks a stick. If it goes above my cheap a$$ limit...then I wait till next time.
BTW....are big butt cigars any good??
I hope so LOL.

I get the same response as Steve. "RAY!! You bought some more frigging cigars?!. You're never going to smoke all the ones you have!!"

Happy New Year!
It worked!!!!!
I got the Gurka Cuban's at a great price!
Thank you all for not bumping me!!!!!

Thanks again,
Robert

RP, If you think this thread is what made your auction win successful, you are kidding yourself.
Everyone has gone through what you described on your original post. If you are patient, you will find an auction that goes your way.
I have never seen someone brag about bumping up prices on others to get even. Thats childish in my opinion.
We all have a right to bid as we please. You arent "Lord of the auctions". If I see something I really want, and nowhere else to get it, dont count on any mercy from me.

Mag

RP, do you think it might have something to do with the fact that on New Year's Eve, there were a lot fewer people hanging out on CB. I had some deals in my watch list, but forgot about them as the evening took shape.

Mag,
A little hung over this morning?

No I'm not! Maybe you didnt notice that you got ZERO positive posts for your "Warning". Nuff said!

Mag

Good point, Mag!

Charlie

Hey!!! You Related to Ross Parrot????

The Big Picture!!!! the Big Picture!!!!
They don't show you the Whole Big Picture!!!!!

thanks to that SOB we got stuck with Mr. Bill for 8 yrs to long!!!!

Right On USAHog!!!! ~~~:

Mag,
I didn't expect or want any positive replys to the post. The post is negative, there fore the replys will be negitive. The point is that if we observe some sort of unspoken etiqutte, then we might just get a few cigars for less. Like I said, I try not to be a hog and I try not to bid against some of the people that I see posting on the boards. The Village Idiots (VI in the comments) don't bid against each other and there are a few other "clubs" that try to do the same thing.

I apologize if I have hit a nerve with this thread or bumped any of your bids in the past.

Happy New Year and
Best Regards,
Robert

Hey Hog,
That would be Ross Perot
and he's no relitive of mine!

Robert

Actually Robert you didn't hit a nerve here.. I was LMAO at the whole thing... it is a dead horse Issue that keeps coming up every time someone gets Burned at the Auction Block... Sorry that you got so heated over a loss that you had to make a comment on the boards and get slammed... but all in Humor.. it has happend to all of us.. sometimes it is a Fun game to make the other guy Blow his loot on dog rockets only knowing he evedently did not do his homework... and with Auctions its a blast!!! I once seen a Farmers Auction a burned out Webber Grill go for 5 bucks and the half used bag of Charcol went for 20.00!!! all because of a few farmers fueding over the bids...LMAO Happens all the time... and the Ross Perot toss was in Pun...
Happy New Years to you all....

Hog

Holy S**T, I don't believe this post!! Hello, this is an auction site.

Auction(n)(ôkshn)- A public sale in which property or items of merchandise are sold to the highest bidder.

There you go, "highest bidder" Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some. Such is life. Get over it!!

OK joe,
Just keep the bids high and and you will be "Winning?"

You are now entering the TWILIGHT ZONE.

Yes, I have won many auctions on here - all for below retail. Have some items that I bid on went totally off the wall?....yes, but I moved on! I set my autobid to what I'm willing to pay and if I get outbid at the last minute, hour, day, whatever - so be it. I wait till the item is listed again and try again.

What I DON'T do is post "warnings" to my fellow cBidders!! I mean look what you wrote...

"To all you who bump my bids... be warned that if you bump me you will not get a single stick off any of the boards.....ever!!!!!"

There, now tell me that does not look like something a child would write?? I'm not trying to get on you about this or make you look bad. I'm just saying calm down and look at what you wrote again ...... seems silly doesn't it?