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So, here's what I don't get. A couple times in the past few days, I've bid on one of a set of four or five pokemon, same pokemon, same price, only to be outbid, sometimes by +100, when it would be cheaper and easier (not to mention, more polite) for the person to bid on one of the other ones in the set. It got really annoying yesterday, because it happened three times in the same set, the last time a snipe, so I didn't even have time to bid on the last pokemon in the set (which went unclaimed).

This really makes no sense to me. Personally, if there are other unclaimed pokemon, I'd rather take them, then steal one from someone else for no good reason. I don't even like sniping myself, although I have done it occasionally, usually when the other person's already outbid one of my bids, or I really, really, want that particular pokemon.

Maybe it's because I'm Canadian and that whole politeness thing or something, but it just seems like people are being deliberately nasty (in lieu of a stronger, less acceptable word) to me.

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Are they the exact same? In some cases, it's because of the following:

1. Different gender.
2. Different nature.
3. Ending sooner.

In my case, I will almost always bid on one not bid on unless it's ending at a time I won't be online. If it's ending at a time I won't be online, I will bid against someone in order to try and win it - because if I bid on one that ends while I'm offline, and it's a Pokemon that evolves, I will come back to it fully evolved. Or I'll lose the bid when I'm offline and can't keep bidding on it.

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I suppose it might be those things. I'm not into the fighting, so I don't care about the nature, but it seems a little strange that's they're only the ones right after each other, and not out of order. And generally, there's a matter of a few seconds between the different ones, so I don't really think it's a time thing. I only look at the first page of my missing dex, so the longest time span, when it isn't busy, is still less than an hour.

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If there are a group of the same kind I like to bid on the last one as people often see the first one and try to grab it despite others being available.

I have been sniped many many times. Yes it is annoying but figure there will always be another sooner or later. Patience Grasshopper is what I remind myself :)

Good luck. Feel free to glance through my *extras* box and let me know if you need any of them :)

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of course there is also the fact that a lot of people like to bid in the last 3 seconds as an auction ends, so, if you don't bid on every single available pokemon, even if it's the same, then you don't have a chance of even getting one of them.

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It's not "stealing" to bid on an auction - or nasty, or rude. It's just playing this game. You can also bid on those other pokemon instead of having a bidding war over the first one.

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