Acquiring Neofinetias Via EBay

[Call_Me_Bob]

I'll let you guys fight over it, I know better than to try and win it from Jay! Hopefully you get it cheap!

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by MattWoelfsen

Oh oh Jayfar sounds like you are going to have some competition for the Kara Nishiki!

Originally Posted by Jayfar

Naw, I'll be unleashing the dreaded bullet-proof bid on this one.

Originally Posted by Call_Me_Bob

I'll let you guys fight over it, I know better than to try and win it from Jay! Hopefully you get it cheap!

Whoa!!! Not a chance for cheap, apparently. When I looked a few hours back it had 1 bidder. Then a few minutes ago it was suddenly at 70-something with 2 bidders. Then I immediately clicked on the link to view the bids and it in that moment had surged to 122.50, with just the same 2 bidders. I haven't bid yet. Remember, starting price was $28.

Reviewing the time stamps and including automatic bids, I see that the first bidder's (c***o) original max bid entered 2 days ago was 120. Of course there was no way to see what the original bidder's max was until the second bidder (c***1) entered a bid.

Here is the relevant activity:

Bidders: 2 Bids: 42 Time left: 4 hours 50 mins 26 secs Duration: 3 days

Bidder Bid Amount Bid Time
c***1 ( 227) US $122.50 Jan-31-14 15:10:12 PST

c***o ( 357) US $120.00 Jan-29-14 04:11:49 PST

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Neofinetiafalcata Beautiful Tiger Stripe Japaneseorchid

eBay.com Item Bid History (including automatic bids)

The later bidder c***1 has interesting bidding patterns. Frequently they will enter multiple bids, escalating their max, even with no other bidders, within a period of a couple minutes. For instance c***1 is the sole bidder, with 5 bids, for the Tosa Midori in this Sunday's SE auction. On the other hand, they only entered 1 bid for last nite's Hime-Kaioumaru, which I snatched away in final 10 seconds. I believe this was also the bidder who retracted their big bid on a NWO offering recently (and has 5 retractions in past 6 months).

UPDATE: c***o has jumped back in the lead at 125. Only time will tell what their new max bid is.

I also know that c***o will go well over 200 for a desirable plant. On the December 28 Fuji-nishiki, c***o went to 225, before we both lost it to a third bidder at 255.

[Pilot]

Uh guys, don't look at NWOs planned eBay listings.... There are a few that will most definitely break your will to resist.


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[trdyl]

Originally Posted by Jayfar

Whoa!!! Not a chance for cheap, apparently. When I looked a few hours back it had 1 bidder. Then a few minutes ago it was suddenly at 70-something with 2 bidders. Then I immediately clicked on the link to view the bids and it in that moment had surged to 122.50, with just the same 2 bidders. I haven't bid yet. Remeber, starting price was $28.

Reviewing the time stamps and including automatic bids, I see that the first bidder's (c***o) original max bid entered 2 days ago was 120. Of course there was no way to see what the original bidder's max was until the second bidder (c***1) entered a bid.

Here is the relevant activity:



Neofinetiafalcata Beautiful Tiger Stripe Japaneseorchid

I kind of thought this one would be well out of my current budget when I first saw it.

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by Pilot

Uh guys, don't look at NWOs planned eBay listings.... There are a few that will most definitely break your will to resist.

Been there, done that. Rain-no-hikari will sell for sure; thanks to the facebook posting at least that one may not make it to the auction.

https://www.facebook.com/NewWorldOrchids

[dries666]

Originally Posted by Jayfar

Been there, done that. Rain-no-hikari will sell for sure; thanks to the facebook posting at least that one may not make it to the auction.

https://www.facebook.com/NewWorldOrchids

believe me, it is still going on ebay I think, it was a bit above my budget But it's an amazing plant !!

greetz,
Dries

[MattWoelfsen]

Just got back from dinner. Went to a Greek restaurant, had excellent lamb suvlocki--got back to eBay, and was totally stunned that the Kara Nishiki is $125! Jayfar, excellent analysis of these two bidders. I think you are right about one of the bidders being a defaulcator. I think I've bid against these same bidders, fortunately the plants I wanted had little interest. I've been getting some successful bids because I am often the only one bidding.

[AnonYMouse]

Its pretty but $155.50?

Ego? Compulsion? I don't get it!

[Call_Me_Bob]

Do we have a definition of defaulcator?

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by Call_Me_Bob

Do we have a definition of defaulcator?

Not by that spelling, but for defalcator there is a definition. Not sure I understand it in the context of the post.

World English Dictionary
defalcate (ˈdiːfælˌkeɪt)

— vb
( intr ) law to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one

[C15: from Medieval Latin dēfalcāre to cut off, from Latin de- + falx sickle]

defal'cation

— n

'defalcator

— n

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