[meteorite-list] Meteorite eBay Bidding Comment

From: Meteoryt.net <marcin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 12 13:34:33 2004
Message-ID: <004a01c450a2$fb1c81d0$0300000a_at_polandme2iekcc>

> Hi Mike,
>
> Just bid your highest bid the first time and forget it. If you win, you
> win. If you don't, via sniping or otherwise, well you weren't going to
bid
> any higher anyway so what difference does it make whether the other
person's
> bid was entered 10 hours, 10 minutes, or 10 milliseconds before the
auction
> ends?

You are WRONG.
Its verry importand when You place bid.

exam1
If item is placed f.e. for 1$ , and in a first few days will go up to 20$
then You put f.e. 100$ your max bid 3 days before auction ends. So then many
other bidders will try to outbid You and final price will grown up more or
less slowly, and finally price will be f.e. 90$. You are lucky winner ? No,
You are lucky looser. And many times You will return from work, log to ebay
and what You see ? You are outbited and someone win Your item. Nothing more
irritated.
exam2
Without your early bid price is still 20$ and in the next days will not grow
up in the same speed as with your bid. So finally in last 5 minutes of
auction, item price will be 50$. Someone who is high bidder in last 60
seconds think that noone will place higher price, and then You come. A lone
sniper, who will place his 101$ in last 20 seconds of auction. Not 100$,
becouse people usualy enter prices as 50, 60, 100, 110, so to be sure you
must put 51, 61, 101$. If You do this in the last 20 seconds Your bid will
be entered in around 5-10seconds before auction end and THEN You will win
the same item for less than 90$, becouse noone can place another bid in last
5 seconds. Your system is working, buy snipers can win the same items for
smaller money.

You can say, that this is not right, this is sniping etc. But this is real
life like on old westerns :))) Only faster gunmen survive.


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Received on Sat 12 Jun 2004 01:30:39 PM PDT