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Set my limit at 1200 and just missed them, tried to go up another 50 but time ran out, beautiful set of juniors with that old school endangered mahogany!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

PC

Tough, they went for "just" the 1200$
you wanted to bid too a few seconds later.

I wonder in what way those tumbadoras were
"MADE BY JUNIOR TIRADO" if they are J.C.R.

Pretty sure they're juniors.
PC

Alright, I took a look at the 8th picture,
and it says Junior Tirado inside the shell.

pcastag wrote:Set my limit at 1200 and just missed them, tried to go up another 50 but time ran out, beautiful set of juniors with that old school endangered mahogany!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

PC

In my opinion the way to bid/win on Ebay is to use one of many "sniping" systems.
You never want to place a bid (using Ebays default bidding system) before the auction ends... you place your pre-determined max amount days or up to a week prior to the end of the auction (using a sniping program).
I personally set mine to go in 6 seconds before the end of the auction, you don't need to be at a computer, it's all automated down to the second.
I win 99.9% of every auction I bid on... though keep in mind the "highest bid" wins.

By using a "sniping" system... you monitor how the auction is going, you can raise or lower your max at anytime up until 1 min. before the auction ends.
I use "Auction Sniper" your first three bids are free... then if you decide to use it regularly, it's like .25 cents a snipe.
I've been using this program for 7 or 8 years.
http://www.auctionsniper.com/Default.aspx

If you have ever bid on an Ebay auction... you were the high bidder... but at the very end in the last few seconds someone comes from nowhere and wins in the last few seconds, that's how they won... by "sniping".

That's certainly on way of doing it, but, being a penny pinching cheap individual, I prefer to use patience. If something goes beyond my price I simply pass and wait for the next item that fits what I'm looking for. Even so I have had the Auction Fever a couple of times and almost really over spent. Fortunately someone else had the disease worse than I did and saved me. At the last minute of course by sniping me

I too am an ebay sniper (for another habit - coins not drums). You just have to know what the max you are willing to pay and confirm that bid 3 to 5 seconds before the end - that way you don't have a chance to lose your mind and overbid. Usually I get what I'm after well below my Max. That tool however looks interesting!!!!

Especially for those auctions that end late, late at night.

Thanks for the heads up

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I really hope your coments are NOT directed at me! That would be incredibly insulting. Yes I'm bummed I didn't win them, would I have been willing to pay more? Probably about 50 -100, but something else will come along, would've been nice to have those juniors though!
PC

PS, those JCRs have a crack, the problem with a crack on a solid shell drum is that it is not easy to fix like a crack on a stave drum where the crack runs right on the stave. That is trulya crack in the wood where stave separation is just that, separation.
PC

I for one don't complain when I don't win an auction. I just wait for the next one, and some of the best deals that I have had is when I was the next highest bidder and wound up winning when the the winner didn't pan out. Then again, I haven't been going after rare Cuban drums. Just more workmanlike examples.

I don't understand where you guys get the whining and complining from., I was just posting to show the drums first, and to exclaim how close I was to winning! Anyways, there will come a time when another opporunity will present itself.
PC

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Some of my best and decent deals came from music stores that wanted to move something off of their sales floor. I'm talking about new, readily available pieces by LP, Toca, and Gon Bops. Some of them had very minor scratches or nicks that were certainly not as bad as what I would put on them within a month of owning them. With such garden variety pieces as that, of course you can bid low because you know there will be another example next week.

My two 80's Gon Bops looked ugly and had mismatched beat up hardware. They were fiberglassed too, which seems to not be so popular but I love them. I was also the second highest bidder on them and the auction winner flaked. Now someday, when I find the matching tumba for them, you might hear me start complaining

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