8 Feb
2011
8 Feb
'11
1:09 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Sarah Palin didn't create an auction site with
easily warped rules -- but
Meg Whitman did her penance, given that a solid proportion of her fortune
got poured down the drain in the governor's race.
(from the camp that puts down a solid bid and walks away if a sniper decides
they're willing to bid more)
eBay was already in existence, with ~30 people before Meg Whitman was
hired on. That isn't MY definition of "create".
Although she spent more than anyone has ever spent on any political
campaign EVER, there was no B.I.N. and no opportunity to snipe, and she
still couldn't buy it. And, she was putting my pension at risk!
I must not be participating in auctions that are as vicious as what some
of y'all are participating in. I almost always put a token bid in at the
beginning, just to let "competing" bidders know that I am interested. I
am not desperate enough to "need to win and keep the price down" enough to
feel the need to turn it into a "sealed bid" auction (closest to the
results of eBay with sniping)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com