8 Feb
2011
8 Feb
'11
10:38 a.m.
That makes no sense.
sniping does not drive up prices like early bidding does.
Of coursei it does. If I (early bid) $50 for an item with an opening bid
of $5, say, and somebody snipes me at the last minute with a $20 bid,
then the price I have to pay has been driven up.
anyone who knows fleabay knows that bidding early has the only effect of dr=
iving the price up.
there's no point in bidding early=2C none at all.
You're not going to win=2C and you have no hope of winning=2C regardless of=
the outcome=2C
Strange... Obviously I have imagined all the items I've won by bidding
early.
unless you're going to drive the price up so high
that you've priced it out=
of the market.
I don;t get this at all. If I bid early, you can't know what my high bid
is (it may well be a _lot_ more tan the openning bid). So you can't be
sure ot outbid me if you snipe. Nor can you possibly know how much
something is worth to me, so how the heck can you say I've priced it out
of the market.
-tony