26 Oct
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26 Oct
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Subject: Re: ebay
Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet
Date: 10/26/98 3:54 PM
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Hans Franke wrote:
As high as $12,000? Only to have someone bid $12,100?
I stopped using eBay simply for this reason. The format makes it
impossible to carry on a fair bid process and weed out the weenies.
> 1. Bid more than anybody else through proxy
bidding. This way when
> somebody else bids, the system will bid you up (to your max)
automatically
> when someone else bids. If you want it bad
enough, you can get it,
but
it may
cost you.
Jep, but to be shure, it has to be high, real high :( > 2. Learn the fine art of sniping. I live with a
longtime e-bay user (my
wife)
> who has the distinction of a 0 second snipe -
it came in and was
recognised
> some fraction of a second before the auction
closed. She did it
manually
too. :)
There IS sniping software, apparently, too.
Just a NO. Maybe I'm stupid and old fashionated,
but sniping is just not possible. > 3. My wife assures me that EVERYTHING comes
around again, btw.
Especially
computers.
She suggests patience.
Jep, but this lot was real neat.
(And the next will be the one with the SC/MPs .. sigh).
I don't know if this will be around again, so nicly bundled >If you look hard enough, you can ALWAYS find
something around you,
>cheaper, and it won't cost you shipping. This is of course more true
>for some people than others (like a poor slob in Alaska trying to
>collect computers) but I've learned this lesson many times. Everything
>I've ever bought off eBay has turned up locally for a fraction of the
>price. Sometimes only a week later.
Aren't you located in 'Silicon
Valley?' You are located in an unusally
fertile area for the old computer devotee. I live in the Washington,
D.C. metro area which isn't bad but must pale in comparison to your
locale. *sniff* **sob** Marty
An alternate to eBay is needed.
Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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