I agree. Sometimes your last secound bid has to be well thought out. Your final price still has to beat everyone elses last secound bid. I've put in several last secound bids that were thirty dollars above the existing bid only to have that bid rejected, because someone elses last secound bid might have bid forty dollars. Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you... In my opinnion It's not worht getting upset about..Win some lose some.....
Ed Busch
Vonore Tennessee USA
> Sniping has nothing to do with it. If you get beaten
> on ebay, it's because someone else was willing to pay
> more than you -pretty simple.
> Derek Willburn
> Long Beach, CA USA
>
> --- Bianca Pratorius <biankita@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> After losing three auctions in a row, being outbid
>> in the last five
>> seconds each time, I've had it. I joined the crowd
>> but I must say, I
>> really don't like it. Ebay has changed so much over
>> the last two years.
>> About that time, I noticed that people would bid up
>> the item mostly
>> during the last hour. The next year it seemed that
>> items were getting
>> bid up during the last fifteen minutes. This year
>> it's gotten worse -
>> much worse. Even newbies to ebay are using special
>> software which
>> enables them to get an advantage over guys that
>> played by the rules
>> (like me). Today I became an card carrying sniper.
>> My bids will be
>> placed electronically and it will be my guy's
>> computer software against
>> theirs. So what's changed? Nothing, we just upped
>> the ante like
>> countries building up nuclear arsenals to combat the
>> other guy's
>> arsenals. And by the way this business about late
>> winter being the
>> season where people buy items to get ready for
>> spring therefore the
>> prices rise. They do, but my experience is that they
>> don't go down
>> again. They just rise. Bah! $800 for a cracked
>> (possibly irreparably)
>> seat lugged Masi 3V with Dura Ace? Thank goodness
>> there are list
>> members like Charles Nighbor who are still willing
>> to give a guy a good
>> deal on an old bike. Thanks to him but I'm ready to
>> give up on ebay ...
>> until I need something badly ... again.
>>
>> Garth Libre in Miami Fl USA
>>
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