FoxTrot by Bill Amend for December 01, 2002
Transcript:
Roger: Two days left and I'm still the high bidder on these golf clubs! Six hours left and I'm still the high bidder on these golf clubs! Fifteen minutes left and I'm still the high bidder on these golf clubs! 0.001 seconds left and---someone outbid me?! How?! How?! How?! Computer: I really wish you'd stop using eBay. Roger: Can I at least bid on a new keyboard?
comics04 about 14 years ago
“Snipers are a real hassle.”
mrcharmander934 over 13 years ago
Yeah it always seems like someone outbids you in that split second before it’s bought.
joeshmo30 over 11 years ago
i know
gocomics almost 11 years ago
Sniping is the ONLY way I bid.
threePwny over 9 years ago
In the words of Weird Al: “I am the type who is liable to snipe you with two seconds left to go, whoa”
callak over 8 years ago
Easy way to combat sniping, add more time to the bid, like a min if it’s under a minute.
Kristiaan over 7 years ago
This is an accurate description of my first (and last) experience with eBay.
Spirit749 over 2 years ago
Whenever you bid on something there will ALWAYS be some idiot swooping in at the last zeptosecond to outbid you by three cents.
Stephen Gilberg about 1 year ago
It takes longer than a millisecond to say that.
IWannaBeLerxst about 2 months ago
I’m in the above crowd – how annoying “sniping” is to the people who bid normally…BUT – am I the only one who notice how insanely amusing the depiction of his “fruit” computer is??? 8^D