I [don't] hate E-Bay (was Cromemco 68000 on ebay)

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>wrote: You and he may believe that, but that doesn't make it true. Snipe bidding is for two types of people 1) people who believe that they are somehow entitled to pay less than an item is worth to somebody else (and believe that snipe bidding will allow that to happen) and 2) people who can't set limits for themselves and will continually bid up an item when their maximum bid has been exceeded. It's an auction. If someone is willing to pay more for an item than you are, they get it. It's as simple as that. Enter your real maximum bid on day 1, and if you don't win, let it go. Losing an auction isn't a personal failing. It's easy. There are only two ways you can go wrong, by entering a bid that is larger than you think an item is worth, or by entering a bid that is less than you think an item is worth. Personally, I've gone through a lot of auctions on ebay, and the only time I've been disappointed is when the USPS refused to pay an insurance claim on an item that they were clearly at fault for damaging. (It had been dropped they were wrapped in, through an inch of Styrofoam and through the cardboard box. I figure it was at least an 8 foot drop. According the the Post Office it was an inadequate packing job.) On the other hand, I have been defrauded by people offering items in emails to mailing lists or newsgroup postings, despite having had far fewer transactions of that sort.