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Here's another ebay question -- does anbody know of a 1)good and 2)free ebay sniper? Can auction insights be trusted?
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That's evil. I take pride in being a good e-bayer, but I can't win against a computer program! Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Salads are good with Mushrooms. BTW...When you said auction sniper, I though you were talking about the kind that shoots people. I was going to say, "Well, I know a guy back home." But I honestly think he's a little pricey.
(No really...I know a guy. Ex-Marine Sniper. Trains people in covert operations techniques. Cool guy.)
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I work with a guy that is on the all Navy Shooting Team. He is in fact the team captain. His prize last year for first place iirc was a M-14, handed to him by an admiral. He refuses to do sniper ops for people he knows .
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Boris, I know an ex-Army sniper. The story his gf tells is that after he was discharged, he was at the state employment office and the worker was trying to help him find a job. She suggested that he use the skills he learned in the Army (obviously thinking truck driving, computer, something along those lines).
Imagine her reaction when he calmly told her he had been a sniper. ... Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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Yeah, I bet. My sniper friend is like 60 years old now or somewhere close to that (He is a Vietnam Vet). He took that kind of advice. He's been head of security for multiple large companies in North Carolina and is currently an 8th degree blackbelt in Shurin Ryu Karate (From what he told me, there are only 4 people that have been practicing that style longer than him...But he won't take rank advancements because he's not Japanese). Yeah...If someone asked me who my hero is, I'm screaming him. Mostly because he's also funny as heck. [/continued derail]
edit: SWAT teams do need snipers, though. But I'm guessing your friend wanted a break from the life of shooting stuff that's REALLY far away.
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I've tried to bid on a few things, but everytime I do, it says my bid has been beaten before the page saying that I've bid in the first loads. Is this normal? I've also noticed the history has two of my bids in sequential order, and the guy I'm trying to beat stays at the top without any of his previous bids showing up.
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When my father served an LDS mission, one of the other missionaries had been a sniper in Vietnam. Little children would as "how many people did you kill?" He'd ask "How old ar you?", and then reply "More than that."
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I think the other guy has bid a higher proxy bid than you did. In other words, he established a bid limit, and has his account automatically adjust so that as other people bid, his bid is incremented just enough to beat them. In other words, he's bidding by proxy, and your bids just aren't high enough to beat him. Time to ask yourself, "How much am I willing to spend here?" Posts: 1813 | Registered: Apr 2001
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