Various lots on ebay

[tasoe]

It probably was more than one pound. Ebay just reveals that someone's beat your bid and only raises the bar one pound over the second highest bid.
The actual winning bid could be a lot bigger.

However, may I suggest that you don't make as many bids as you did. It only raises the price at the moment and only the seller (and ebay) benefits from that.
Just bid your maximum offer at any given time (a few seconds before auction ends is ideal) and just wait for the result. A bidding war between two keen buyers is not worth it, since anyone can bid at the last minute and steal it.

Also bids that end at .99 are not that clever if I may be so bold.
If you bid 4.99 and someone bids 5.00 you gonna lose and it will be sad. Whereas if you bid something like 5.01 or 5.03 you may overbid them.

Still, it was a shame that you lost that lot. A lot of good things in there, I'm surprised it went that low. Ogres and WoM figures in there should have raised it a lot higher.

[Sjeng]

I was going to say the same

Although we can't be sure if the WoM and Ogre stuff was complete.

[knightkrawler]

Tasoe got it exactly right.
Wait for the right moment if you can. Ideally, that's about one minute before the end. Type in your maximum bid and click the button.
Random sums are important here as well as knowing what the outbidding steps are (1 cent/penny for under 50 bucks/quid; 1 buck/quid for over 50 bucks/quid; though I can't be sure about that -> inform yourself).
DO NOT CONFIRM THE BID YOU'VE JUST PLACED until 4 seconds before the end. And fret not, the timer is live all the time in this state before clicking confirm bid.

Example:
1) If you wanna pay 50 bucks including shipping for an item whose shipping is 4,80 bucks, type in 47,65, making your maximum price 52,45. You can live with that.
The psychology behind this is this: one other person will have the same argument I presented above and he will bid just over 45 pounds, outbidding two important thresholds at once: first, the 45 bucks for the item, which he thinks someone will bid; secondly, the 50 bucks for the item including the shipping. The likelihood of you winning the item climbs if you bid slightly more than your maximum wishful thinking, especially if these thresholds are involved.
2) Now Place your Bid.
3) Next window says Confirm Bid (I don't know the exact wording for ebay.co.uk). Don't. Wait for that until the timer shows 4 seconds to go. As tasoe says, the war is not worth it and raises the price because every bidder involved thinks he wants to raise his maximum more often the more often he sees he's outbid. The psychology is as simple as that.
4) Click the freakin' Button and wait for Ooohs or Aaahs. You'll be immediately notified of the outcome by pop-ups.

If this method doesn't work it's because I went ahead and posted my ingenious tactics for anyone to know.

Tasoe is also right in that the point in time when you bid is not that important as long as you know what I just presented and if you stick to your maximum-plus-random. If you can't wait for the auction to end to place your bid, which would be ideal, do it earlier whenever you want to or can. No auction should restrict your life and no item should raise your price.

And if you're interested in anything that anyone among us is interested in, too, announce the auction here. That has been going well for us for some time now.

[Hero_Of_Retro]

Brill yeah. Will try that the next time.

I know, everything seemed to be everywhere in that collection.

[Thantos]

And be sure to play the ebay song while bidding!

http://youtu.be/YKtlK7sn0JQ

And these have some wizards tucked into them.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310874959661? ... EBIDX%3AIT
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310874966095? ... EBIDX%3AIT

Was going to bid myself... would like to have the wizards minis... and i think with enough acetone, could paintstrip that mess quite well ...
Duno yet..

[drathe]

I did bid on this.. but it has dissapeared! :/

The seller responded to my message, stating they had to cancel the auction due to the merchandise being misplaced. They worry it may have been erroneously bundled with a game they recently sold.

Thanks be to those who offered to aid me in bidding on this auction. You are heroes in my book.

The seller found the chart and messaged me about its relisting. He is willing to mail it to Canada should I win. I'm going to try my best to win it!

[Hero_Of_Retro]

Just noticed it. Awesome. 9 days to go.. hopefully it doesn't get too much attention.

[Hero_Of_Retro]

Photocopies of the weather man quest and dark company quest is up on eBay. Hmm.. Odd.

Im not sure what this one is.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heroquest-Var ... 3cdda89784

Revenge of the weatherman and dark company.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coloured-Phot ... 3cdda880c0

[Goblin-King]

Photocopies of the weather man quest and dark company quest is up on eBay. Hmm.. Odd.

Im not sure what this one is.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heroquest-Var ... 3cdda89784

Revenge of the weatherman and dark company.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coloured-Phot ... 3cdda880c0

First one is quest from White Dwarf.

Shame on him for selling photocopies!
And shame on everyone who actually buys them instead of downloading them for free in here

[wolfie907]

it probably costs less considering the price of ink and you don't have to hassle with printing it yourself