bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

I know what I am talking about when I speak of idiots here. I am talking about ones who have > 50 or more auctions, and have done it on other auctions. If you want to buy something, put in a reasonably large bid and take it. when someone enters a large number $10 bids on an auction that eventually closes at 150 or so, they are either trying to run up your bill or are in cahouts with the seller. I excuse 0 feedback people and so forth, and have actually had very little problem with them, and never in this way. When an item that should go for $40 or so sets around with your maximum bid of say $200, and after a couple of days someone comes in and runs it to $150, the only one who can possibly be happy is the vendor. I'm not because the person ran up my bill, and the person is not because I got the item. So I stand on my calling those sorts idiots. I used that term to keep this nearer to a family readable format. Jim On 2/22/06, Computer Collector Newsletter <news at computercollector.com> wrote: The sniping is not the problem, It's my solution. I hate that I can't put a bid in on something when I find it and find the above happened Plenty of normal and educated people who aren't technical like us understand the bids that were put in were over a short period and were small increments that were never answered by another bidder, only my reserve. that made me very unhappy. Your statement is just another example of why we nerds are often considered not my point at all, sorry if you took it to be so. Jim, I know you and I know you are not an idiot (plus I'm not a fan of many words to make my point, and apologize for my lack of being able to express what I meant the first time and with less verbage. jim