2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
7:06 a.m.
Maybe I'm an idiot (Jim's term), but I don't at all understand
what's being expressed here:
jim stephens wrote:
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.
[snip]
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.
Okay, so suppose my "reasonably large bid" is $150, and I bid that
amount *once.* Now I've run your bill up but that doesn't mean I'm
in cahoots with anyone, especially the seller.
Or, suppose I want to see if I can beat your bid, so I bid $50 to
begin with, and then subsequently bid up in $10 increments. Since
your max bid is $200 (and of course I don't know what your max bid is),
eventually it goes over the max I want to spend ($150), and when it
does that, I give up.
This make me an idiot??? Maybe I am, because I don't get your
point at all.
Besides, if the item "should go" for $40, why did you bid
$200 on it???
So I stand on my calling those sorts idiots. I used
that term to keep
this nearer to a family readable format.
Well, I suppose that's better than Sellam's favorites (such as
ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS) but why you persist in name-calling
simply because someone does something you don't like is beyond me.
Glen
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