(was) I [don't] hate E-Bay (was ...) Annoying bidding from buyer's perspective

[jim s]

Dan Gahlinger wrote:
> <snip>
>>> PS - dont ever bid before about 30 seconds of the auction end, you're just driving up the price unecessarily
>>>       
>> Oh yeah, like this request will get honored.
>>     
>
> maybe not, but bidding days or even hours before an auction ends is just stupid.
>
>   
I note in the next reply from William that he probably is a seller, 
hence the desire to have lots of bids.

As a buyer, please check out this auction's bid (which I won) for why 
one does not bid early.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200317584862

the idiot that outbid me with $2 incrementing bids has a 2876 feedback, 
so is no newcomer to ebay.

I had put in what I call a guard bid, since the auction was ending about 
the time I go to bed (6am) and and a Saturday morning to boot, so I 
wanted something in there to be sure if I overslept I at least did 
something.

If I had put in more than the $35 bid, no telling where this moron would 
have gone.

You will notice that he did the slow bid sequence at 5:49 on the auction 
timeline, and stopped at $36.  Now he can't put in a higher bid.

I dropped in my bid at about 30 sec left, and he went "oh no" and bid 
twice more trying to outbid me.  I had put in a $300 bid to take the 
item, and luckily he didn't go higher than $50.

However from my perspective,  every dime over $5.10 (which it was at at 
1am saturday morning, a few hours before the end of the auction) was a 
waste of my money.

If mr. 2876 had wanted the item, why not bid the $50 immediately, or bid 
$35.  I suspect this sort of bidding pattern to be a collusion between 
the seller and this bidder, to bid up low performing items.  One can 
never prove this, but it just smells.

Jim