On 6 March 2012 20:39, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
 And possibly the saddest part of this is that (unless there was a reserve
 placed), you could have bid a million dollars/pounds and she wouldn't
 have known, because no one else was bidding. ?That's just how eBay works
 (or doesn't, depending on your perspective). 
Indeed.  The TD4000 that I started this thread about, I won at an
uncontested opening price of ?0.99.  I'd put a max bid of around
?15.00 on it, and might have gone more..