Yeah, I'll never, ever bid on anything until the last 5 seconds. I can't understand why anyone would. Any auction for kewl bike parts that is pulled won't get my money. What the price is 25 hours prior to the auction close is essentially meaningless. I don't even check when I'm selling.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA USA
On 9/19/07, chasds@mindspring.com <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> **********
>
> 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