[meteorite-list] The Sniper Mentality

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:14:41 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <310502.16139.qm_at_web113606.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Thanks Tom

I'm glad I posted this thread. I had no idea that there are software packages that would do snipe automatically.

Ebay has to have to have some financial benefit to THEM to allow this nonsense, otherwise they wouldn't allow it. Seems to me it would be more profitable for them to just allow the auction to continue until the bidding stops.

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Wed, 3/17/10, Starsinthedirt at aol.com <Starsinthedirt at aol.com> wrote:
> From: Starsinthedirt at aol.com <Starsinthedirt at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Sniper Mentality
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 5:48 PM
> Hi Richard and List,? I agree
> with your? solution but not your objection to 
> sniping within the framework that is? eBay.
> 
> Ebay has set up a situation where it is the smart thing
> to? do.? As you 
> suggest, if no item will officially end within even just
> one? minute from the 
> time the last bid was placed, this would end the advantage
> of? sniping.
> 
> I personally use a sniping service so when I see an item I
> want,? I set up 
> the snipe bid that will be executed a few seconds before
> auction? end.? This 
> set up can be taken care of days before the auction?
> ends.
> 
> I have saved many hundreds of dollars, mostly on
> microscope? equipment.
> 
> It's not nice or fair but it is the way eBay is set up, so
> why? not play to 
> win.
> 
> Tom
>
      

Received on Wed 17 Mar 2010 09:14:41 PM PDT