Isn't it exhilarating...
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JabbaJawz
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Yeeeeeehawwwwww!!! I used a winning tactic!! Bidding was at $87 and I put my high bid at $100. Then I realized that someone was creeping up the price by a few bucks here and there and it was at $95. I figured they'd stop at $100 b/c it's a nice round #, so I changed my max bid to $103. Yep...they quit at $100 and I got the item! 
JabbaJawz said:Yeeeeeehawwwwww!!! I used a winning tactic!! Bidding was at $87 and I put my high bid at $100. Then I realized that someone was creeping up the price by a few bucks here and there and it was at $95. I figured they'd stop at $100 b/c it's a nice round #, so I changed my max bid to $103. Yep...they quit at $100 and I got the item!
OOOOHH!! Whadya git????
I am forced to get excited over the little things in life. 
FromTexas
This Space for Rent
Excitement this morning was being lord over the ants. I am the ant king!
Let me tell you something about these ants. These are the ants who ride the short bus. They can't bite you, their will is weak (once beat back firmly, they disappear for months), and you can confuse them with a slight breeze. So, technically I am king of the short bus ants.
I came down to get my breakfast, and there were a bunch of the little buggers trying to search out under the toaster, around the kitchen counter, etc... We see them rarely, but when they show, they show in force. It started yesterday at the cats food dish as they came sneaking in from outside. They got quickly demolished, so their small minded game plan was to attack the kitchen counter! They could really show me now!
I did mention these were short bus ants right? I mean, these aren't the persverant nasty little buggers that would show up in Texas with their six shooters ready. In Texas, they could bite... you could bomb them with the most nuclear of ant pesticides, drown them, quarter them, shoot them, burn them, and pour acid on them and a the next day, they would be back trying to pillage your pantries. The only way to win against them nasty buggers was to concede victory to them and put everything in sealed containers (and I mean everything). They then disappeared because they couldn't get into the high technology of multi-password/combo lock tupperware.
So, there they are running wild on the counter. The lights go on and in the back of their little short bus ant minds, they realized the error of their ways. Squish, squish, squish... the 5 fingers of death had struck. Some of them were smarter than others as they crawled into a shadow and sat very still thinking, "He doesn't see me! Stay still!", but I saw them... squish, squish, squish. It was about now my wife came in to get her coffee to see her husband, standing in his boxers, rapidly squishing ants and chanting, "Their bodies will line the streets! They can not escape the wrath of the Ant King!", that she realized that her husband just wasn't right in the head.
She told me that next time I go commiting genocide that I could at least clean all the corpses up afterwards...
Let me tell you something about these ants. These are the ants who ride the short bus. They can't bite you, their will is weak (once beat back firmly, they disappear for months), and you can confuse them with a slight breeze. So, technically I am king of the short bus ants.
I came down to get my breakfast, and there were a bunch of the little buggers trying to search out under the toaster, around the kitchen counter, etc... We see them rarely, but when they show, they show in force. It started yesterday at the cats food dish as they came sneaking in from outside. They got quickly demolished, so their small minded game plan was to attack the kitchen counter! They could really show me now!
I did mention these were short bus ants right? I mean, these aren't the persverant nasty little buggers that would show up in Texas with their six shooters ready. In Texas, they could bite... you could bomb them with the most nuclear of ant pesticides, drown them, quarter them, shoot them, burn them, and pour acid on them and a the next day, they would be back trying to pillage your pantries. The only way to win against them nasty buggers was to concede victory to them and put everything in sealed containers (and I mean everything). They then disappeared because they couldn't get into the high technology of multi-password/combo lock tupperware.
So, there they are running wild on the counter. The lights go on and in the back of their little short bus ant minds, they realized the error of their ways. Squish, squish, squish... the 5 fingers of death had struck. Some of them were smarter than others as they crawled into a shadow and sat very still thinking, "He doesn't see me! Stay still!", but I saw them... squish, squish, squish. It was about now my wife came in to get her coffee to see her husband, standing in his boxers, rapidly squishing ants and chanting, "Their bodies will line the streets! They can not escape the wrath of the Ant King!", that she realized that her husband just wasn't right in the head.
She told me that next time I go commiting genocide that I could at least clean all the corpses up afterwards...
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ylexot
Super Genius
You need better eBay tactics Jabba. The best tactic is to place no bids until the last few seconds and then place the max you're willing to spend (sniper tactic). That way you're not increasing the price in a bidding war (increases the chances of getting a lower winning bid) and other bidders don't have a chance to counter. Then it just comes down to the max bids amongst the snipers.
Wickedwrench
Stubborn and opinionated
That would be me.ylexot said:
Tough on the ticker though.
Wickedwrench
Stubborn and opinionated
That's why I have a sister. She's a more vicious sniper than me.ylexot said:
nomoney
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FromTexas said:Excitement this morning was being lord over the ants. I am the ant king!
Let me tell you something about these ants. These are the ants who ride the short bus. They can't bite you, their will is weak (once beat back firmly, they disappear for months), and you can confuse them with a slight breeze. So, technically I am king of the short bus ants.
I came down to get my breakfast, and there were a bunch of the little buggers trying to search out under the toaster, around the kitchen counter, etc... We see them rarely, but when they show, they show in force. It started yesterday at the cats food dish as they came sneaking in from outside. They got quickly demolished, so their small minded game plan was to attack the kitchen counter! They could really show me now!
I did mention these were short bus ants right? I mean, these aren't the persverant nasty little buggers that would show up in Texas with their six shooters ready. In Texas, they could bite... you could bomb them with the most nuclear of ant pesticides, drown them, quarter them, shoot them, burn them, and pour acid on them and a the next day, they would be back trying to pillage your pantries. The only way to win against them nasty buggers was to concede victory to them and put everything in sealed containers (and I mean everything). They then disappeared because they couldn't get into the high technology of multi-password/combo lock tupperware.
So, there they are running wild on the counter. The lights go on and in the back of their little short bus ant minds, they realized the error of their ways. Squish, squish, squish... the 5 fingers of death had struck. Some of them were smarter than others as they crawled into a shadow and sat very still thinking, "He doesn't see me! Stay still!", but I saw them... squish, squish, squish. It was about now my wife came in to get her coffee to see her husband, standing in his boxers, rapidly squishing ants and chanting, "Their bodies will line the streets! They can not escape the wrath of the Ant King!", that she realized that her husband just wasn't right in the head.
She told me that next time I go commiting genocide that I could at least clean all the corpses up afterwards...
those effing ants (the only thing that is working so far -is the squirt of 409 they get). Ant traps?? what friggen ant traps...you know the kind they crawl in-get the food ; take it back to share and kill everyone by doing so??? yeah right- picked up one of those things to see if it was working and 20 friggen ants come running out; along with one with wings!! (they were friggen living in my friggen ant trap) (I'm thinking the one with wings must have been the leader).
you do know there texas man -if you squash them they give off a smell and 30 more ants will come to collect their dead.
FromTexas
This Space for Rent
nomoney said:
That is why you sit there as you eat breakfast/drink coffee and squish all the new arrivals, put their little heads on toothpick pikes and scare the ant king into them!
Actually, these guys will be gone in a day or two for a long while. Usually once we keep massacreing them they give up. Plus, you can tell they are already growing weak. They are sending the tiny, weak ones out now (much smaller and stupider) which means they are in short supply of worker ants after the Battle at the Cat Food Corral.
