2 May
2001
2 May
'01
4:23 a.m.
On Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 11:46 AM, Mike Ford wrote:
Having survived a 4 hour live auction yesterday, I
have to say eBay is a
marvel of sensibility. On eBay you look over the item, maybe send a few
emails with questions, and you make your bid, either via the eBay proxy
bidding system, or via some snipe engine, and your done. Go away, work
or
play, the results can be expected to be fairly logical. With a live
auction
the situation is constantly changing, often to extremes that truely
suck. I
was planning on maybe $50 bid for a batch of cables, but when that item
comes up it gets lotted with 32 large broken monitors, which must be
removed, which I can't practically do. Bid goes for $25.
The lack of needing to buy everything in lots to get the one item
you want and the long viewing window is one thing I like about eBay
auctions. I myself have recently resorted to using one of the sniping
services so I don't actually have to remember to log on in time for a
last moment bid. I never got into the live auction scene because of the
need a lot of times to buy stuff I didn't want in order to get the thing
I did.
Jeff