Dan Gahlinger wrote:
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PS - dont
ever bid before about 30 seconds of the auction end, you're just driving up the price
unecessarily
Oh yeah, like this request will get honored.
maybe not, but bidding days or even hours before an auction ends is just stupid.
I note in the next reply from William that he probably is a seller,
hence the desire to have lots of bids.
As a buyer, please check out this auction's bid (which I won) for why
one does not bid early.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200317584862
the idiot that outbid me with $2 incrementing bids has a 2876 feedback,
so is no newcomer to ebay.
I had put in what I call a guard bid, since the auction was ending about
the time I go to bed (6am) and and a Saturday morning to boot, so I
wanted something in there to be sure if I overslept I at least did
something.
If I had put in more than the $35 bid, no telling where this moron would
have gone.
You will notice that he did the slow bid sequence at 5:49 on the auction
timeline, and stopped at $36. Now he can't put in a higher bid.
I dropped in my bid at about 30 sec left, and he went "oh no" and bid
twice more trying to outbid me. I had put in a $300 bid to take the
item, and luckily he didn't go higher than $50.
However from my perspective, every dime over $5.10 (which it was at at
1am saturday morning, a few hours before the end of the auction) was a
waste of my money.
If mr. 2876 had wanted the item, why not bid the $50 immediately, or bid
$35. I suspect this sort of bidding pattern to be a collusion between
the seller and this bidder, to bid up low performing items. One can
never prove this, but it just smells.
Jim