[CR]re: gold plated nonsense

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:25:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]re: gold plated nonsense

Nick B. wrote:

so it was sell in as is condition, buyer to put crank on. 6 bidders sat on mine at around 150 bucks until maybe 25 hours from end of sale, and that got me so annoyed I pulled it (it's my gear, I do what I want), and put it back on a 3 day sale with a starting price 499, buy it now 550. Needless to say nobody bid, I guess I offended

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Nick, Nick. How can you possibly know what the final bid would have been? Any veteran denizen of ebay snipes. We wait until the last second, then we bid. You can't know where your item would have ended until you let it *end* on ebay.

All the time beforehand is just time for more people to find out about your item. Not an opportunity to bid it up. Any ebay vet knows that bidding up something is the worst thing you can do...unless you have some other agenda (I've seen that now and then).

Even the japanese bidders who used to bid things up recklessly appear to have become more canny. They snipe too. Although you do occasionally see some testosterone poisoning among bidders and something goes up beyond all reason. that's foolish though.

So, next time you put something on ebay, let it end. Unless someone makes you an offer you can't refuse, of course.

Charles Andrews
Los Angeles