nFrost Garden Journal

Well I've bid £60 on it, 5 hours to go. I don't think I'll go any higher than that.

 

Definitely worth that

Best to bid with a sniping tool though IMHO (I'm sure we've had the discussion here before )

I use gixen.com - other sniping tools available - stick you bid in, it bids in the last few seconds, so your bid is not visible "early" which will possibly encourage other people to bid-up a few quid at a time and trump yours. Also you can cancel your bid (prior to auction finish) if you change your mind / find something else, and you can bid on multiple auctions and cancel all later bids when the first auction is successful.

 

I know but I can't get on eBay at work and it finishes at 4pm today! I'll just have to hope for the best.

Silly time to end an auction really.

 

Ah I see ...

They are the best to Snipe

 

Just done that gixen thing on my phone at £65

 

Wahoo! At £57 I won! I've got a greenhouse!

 

well done!

 

Its a great price, well done.

The bidding does illustrate why Snipping pays though ... the under-bidder first bid on 23-Jul-14 23:24:44, and then came back several times to "top up" their bid.

Looks like your original bid was placed at 27-Jul-14 21:12:53, at which time the auction was £47 and the under bidder then returned repeatedly until 28-Jul-14 07:00:13 ... a Sniping bid, right at the end, would not have given them no time to do that and (I reckon) saved you a £tenner. It ain't enough to worry about, obviously, and you've got a cracking good price ... but it does describe the human behaviour that very few people actually put in their "final bid and walk away" ...



http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=121392165236&showauto=true

 

Picked the greenhouse up last night, he had already dismantled it but has marked every piece so I know where to put it. He had broken a few panes in the process of cleaning them so he did it for £50.

Hopefully will get to build it this weekend.

 

Before:



After:

• Path cleared
• Weeded
• Shed gone
• Buddleia gone
• Reclaimed brickwork laid out as path between kitchen veg beds
• Washing line up

Now need to move red quarry tiles to front garden, paint the fence where the shed used to be, dig over veg beds, sink paths, get 4ft trellis section from front garden to hide bins.

Also, what is this please?



It seems pretty happy with itself!

 

Base nearly done for the greenhouse, rain stopped play though.

 

Well done on the greenhouse bid nFrost!

The plant looks like a Honeysuckle, it will be sweetly perfumed if it is.

 

Made up the front and back walls for the greenhouse today:



Also mowed the full garden for the first time and had a general tidy up:

 

it's inspiring just watching the transformation,
great stuff nfrost.. .,
best of luck with the rest,
Jenny