: Outbidded with <10 seconds to go. And I was ON the f***ing "raise
: bid" page waiting for the page to load so I could raise to $100.
: Stupid £§©@£©@@©£ slow internet connection!!
: ARGH!
Well, I guess you could always try contacting the buyer feigning a nonchalant manner: Open up friendly discussion -- if he/she speaks English, or any language you know. Maybe he in fact knows of Super Marathon, and that's why he bought it? Maybe he's ol' Hamish under alias!! Quick, anagram his username!
I once felt the same way with that "be the 77777 visitor to Marathon.Bungie.org and win a copy of the Trilogy Box Set!" I was reloading only the counter graphic (cheating, I know), and I was visitors 77776 and 7778. >:O
Sean Phelps won, and I figured to let the guy have it.
There's my little story for you.