The OP invites opinions.
The title of the thread is not 'The World Cup is great'

If you don't like football why don't you Fifa Off. I don't really like cricket but don't interfere when the lads on here are discussing it and hope they really enjoy it.

Hi Martin @port perran . I'll give you my thoughts to your OP when I've calmed down a bit   

Yes, what it sold for. Not what the other person bid. So you see £101, and think "ahh balls, should've bid slightly more, I was so close to winning". However unless that person bid exactly £101 (and you've no way of knowing that), had you bid £102 they'd have won it for £103, up to their maximum.

Yes, the sensible thing to do is choose your price, bid and walk away. If you do this with sniping software you're assured the best chance of avoiding someone chipping away at your max over time. Otherwise stick that in a week beforehand and simply don't worry.

Quote from: njee20 on Yesterday at 12:13:11 PMEh? I'm not talking about the bids placed before your snipe. You can bid with 1 second to go, but if the pre-existing max bid was £120 then you will lose the auction, It's why eBay even says "determining the winner" at the end, as it has to reconcile all the sniped bids thrown in the dying seconds.

I use sniping too, daft not to, but what you're really beating is a physical person sat there typing in a number in the last couple of seconds who doesn't have time to increase their maximum. It's absolutely the case that when you think you've 'only just' lost it's because there was only one other bidder who went higher, you just have no idea how high.

But if you lost the bid you can see how much the item sold for after the auction. But speaking for myself I will only bid what I am prepared to pay. However my max bid will always be an odd amount e.g £56.99.

On top of this if someone really wants to win something, they will place a ridiculous amount to ensure they win the auction, which I think is what causes the renowned bidding wars, where the other person who also has a massive desire to win the item keeps bidding against the high price that was initially placed!

If that makes any sense!

I can't stand football (sorry) but am in Toronto as we speak and the first game here is kicking off in 40 minutes.  We're waiting to leave this evening until 10pm and avoiding downtown like the plague (although my Daughter's last performance venue is pretty close).  I had to take a 6am flight booking home tomorrow morning and stuff is booked up and over priced like crazy so I have to leave my airport hotel at 3:45am, and then I have to navigate Vancouver ANOTHER  FIFA city. 

Not impressed, Mexico and the US can have the whole thing as far as I'm concerned.  And don't get me started on hotel prices (I have no choice but to get a hotel in Vancouver next weekend so I can get my girl from the airport).  The closest thing I could find that I could afford was 20km from the airport and I'll have to drive right through the middle of Vancouver to get to the airport.

Sorry about the rant, hot and bothered and full of fifa loathing right now! (31C and a humidex of high 30s doesn't help either!)

I Need to get home to my trains!

G.

Put your money on Curaçao 

I hear s. Korea beat Czech Republic

For all the reasons given by everyone else and because I feel this tournament has been hijacked and politicised I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in it and given the unashamed profiteering (that seems to be backfiring) I will shed no tears if it turns out to be a commercial failure.

I'm also a big football fan, but am less than inspired by this World Cup. It is way too financially driven, fans are getting ripped off to attend (if they can afford it), the players have to deal with hot conditions due to time of year,

I'll still see how England get on but no more.....

Dave

Quote from: Papyrus on Yesterday at 05:16:28 PM

Quote from: port perran on Yesterday at 03:53:22 PMDo others share my lack of enthusiasm ?

In short, yes! I find football mind-numbingly boring. I definitely used to be the odd-one-out in the office who didn't join in the discussions about 'their' team on a Monday morning. I shall have more exciting things to do over the next God knows how many weeks, like weeding the garden and cleaning the cooker...

I hope the rest of youse enjoy it. Wake me up when it's all over...

Cheers,

Chris

May I quote Ms Meg Ryan?

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!

The World Cup is a bore-fest on a par with Wimbledon (the tennis, not the place) and the Olympics.

Like @Papyrus I was the odd one man out. So, at that chat-time before meetings 'What did you think about the game last night?', I'd join the lovely ladies for a bit of intelligent conversation.

But ... thank goodness all these chaps are nuts about football because it means they're not competing with me to bid for SPAM-able* models.

If you like football, I hope you enjoy it.

* SPAM - The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Models. Chairman, Lord Pandaford - Bertie Poppingham to us.


All the very best.

John