ebay rant (short)

[mpeters6@rochester.rr.com (Marc Peterson)]

Ebay #1813589788 - Zender MK1 guage panels with guages and senders.  Man =
I
wanted that.

Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Night Shadow" <soltwede@privateI.com>
To: "Marc Peterson" <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: ebay rant (short)



What item number was it?

Eric

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Marc Peterson wrote:

> Tell me about it.  I put a huge inital proxy bid on that sweet mk1 vdo
guage
> setup that just sold, it was like twice the high bid at the time.  2
minutes
> before the end, someone outbid me by 2 bucks.  Sucks.  Oh well.
>
> Who won that by the way? Lister?
>
> Marc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neal Tovsen" <nealtovsen@yahoo.com>
> To: "'84 Scirocco" <scirocco@macslut.org>; "EUROROC II"
<flaatr@yahoo.com>;
> "VW List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: ebay rant (short)
>
>
> Funny you say that. IMHO, proxy bidding is the reason
> for inflated prices. If two people put in their proxy
> bids, one at $25 more than the current price, and the
> other at $30 more, the price will IMMEDIATELY make a
> $25 jump. Very good for the seller! "Bid snipping" is
> not good for the seller, but it ensures that the price
> stays as low as possible until the last few seconds of
> the auction. As a seller, the only way to limit this
> is through a reserve price, but that often discourages
> people from bidding...
>
> The happy medium for both parties is if bidders don't
> use proxy bids, and bid continuously throughout the
> auction. The price is only increased by people who are
> paying attention, and the seller is more likely to get
> a fair (but still low) price for their goods.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't often happen that way.
>
> In the end, though, it doesn't really matter. These
> are the rules of a (pretty good, IMHO) free
> marketplace. Sometimes you pay more. Sometimes you pay
> less. You are absolutely right: if the price goes
> beyond what you're willing to pay, stop bidding and
> move on.
>
> Neal
>
> --- '84 Scirocco <scirocco@macslut.org> wrote:
> > This is why people pay too much for stuff on eBay.
> > The benefit of proxy
> > bidding is that you can bid your max up front - if
> > someone beats you, well
> > then you move on, even if it was only by a penny.
> > That=B9s my philosophy
> > anyhow - besides I find eBay too expensive for most
> > things.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > '84 VW Scirocco
> > '01 Ford Focus ZX3
> > St. Louis, MO
> >
> > > From: Neal Tovsen <nealtovsen@yahoo.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:55:05 -0600
> > > To: EUROROC II <flaatr@yahoo.com>,
> > scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > > Subject: Re: ebay rant (short)
> > >
> > > I feel for you, man. But you gotta be there in the
> > > end! It's happened to me on a number of occasions,
> > and
> > > I've done it to other people too. That's just the
> > way
> > > it goes sometimes.
> > >
> > > What was it?
> > >
> > > Neal
> > >
> > > --- EUROROC II <flaatr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> Don't you hate it when you find what you need on
> > >> ebay and bid on it.
> > >>
> > >> No one bids against you at all.
> > >>
> > >> Then 14 seconds before the end of the action some
> > >> one jumps in and out bids
> > >> you.
> > >>
> > >> Aaaaauuuuurrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!
> > >>
> > >> -Raffi
> > >>
> > >> The search continues...
> > >>
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> > > ~Neal
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