bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

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Sniping is how I won a Grid Compass 1101 a few months ago.  Someone else had
the same bid as me, but mine got in just "in the nick of time." 

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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Doc Shipley
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:51 AM
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Subject: Re: bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> It might make the most sense in online auctions if ALL bids were snipes.
> Simply bid what you're willing to pay for the item and if it's more 
> than the reserve and higher than any other bid, you've won it by 
> whatever the bid increment is.  That's the way I bid on all of my eBay 
> purchases.  When I place my snipe bid, I say "I'd be willing to pay 
> this much for the item, after which either I'm not sufficiently 
> interested or I know where I can purchase the same thing cheaper".  
> There's no stress of seeing if anyone else has bid more than I.  If I 
> want the item badly enough, I'll get it--no "auction fever".

   I do get auction fever, really badly.  Sniping is about the only way I
can reliably bid without spending money I don't have.  If I make my bid in
the last 5 seconds and it's not enough, there's no way I can get in another
bid.  That's a *good* thing.

   Oddly enough, I'm a cold fish in realtime auctions.  I just don't get
excited when I'm bidding in person.


	Doc