From: Robert Barber (rbarber41@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 30 2002 - 09:40:11 PST
I agree in principal. In live auctions you have that luxury.
But in timed submitted bidding its a different story. What I
have learned is if you really want it leave it alone till the
last second and then bid the max amount you are willing to go
for it.. Otherwise you either get into bidding pissing contests
with new-bees (less than 30 feed backs) that have more money
than brains or you get last second sniped by someone else. I
learned my lessons the hard way on popular items that I wanted
and bid on only to see them snatched out from my winning bid at
the last 15 seconds.
That seems to be the standard procedure for hot items that
are sought by multiple collectors.. It may be devious but when
its the standard rules of the game thats how you need to play
to win what you want. It pretty sad when I have to revolve my
life around timing myself to e-bay bids, but if you want it bad
enough that seems to be the way you have to go.
Bob B
>From: Renactr2@aol.com
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: [MV] Auction ethics
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:48:03 EST
>
>
>15 Minutes? Try 5 seconds!
>Usual bidding against a couple of other collectors, then in the last 5
>seconds come a bid from a new person.
>
>Of course it all still revolves around what your max price is going to be.
>You can always say, "Well I said I would only go XX.00 but, what the hell,
>I
>would have paid a dollar more to have won the item." But what if the other
>fella was willing to go a lot more.
>
>These days, I make up my mind what I would really spend on the item,
>regardless of the testosterone-based "I gotta win the bid" urge. I plug
>that
>in in my first bid and if I get it, great! If not, oh, well.
>
>Still, it erks me that some one gets the bid at the last second when I
>think
>everyone else has given up and I will soon add the item to my collection.
>
>Gotta put some Zen in your life!! <g>
>
>Cheers
>Jim
>
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