E-bay complaints: was Re: "Response" from seller with the "Apple-1"

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Gary Sparkes wrote: If they do then they are foolish and retarded. The whole point of a "sniping" "service" is to actually submit a "snipe" for you, not play high bid tag with some other sniping service's dumb bot. With what I use--StealthBid--you tell it what item you want to bid on and how much you're willing to pay. At the last second (almost literally) it submits your bid. If you win, great! If you win for a price lower than your high offer, even better. If not, you save your pennies for the better one coming up tomorrow. A sniping service as you describe completely defeats the purpose and is not really "sniping" (in the eBay sense*) at all. It opens you up to paying MORE than you would with a true snipe. * what a stupid euphemism to use for this...who's the idiot that came up with that? -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]