ebay rant (short)

[scirocco@macslut.org ('84 Scirocco)]

Dude

Since when are you selling your car?

I'll give you $5 on the 6th when I come out, nobody snipe me!

Greg


-- 


'84 VW Scirocco
'01 Ford Focus ZX3
St. Louis, MO

> From: "Christian Els" <tiAn@usiw.net>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:45:51 -0600
> To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Cc: <jester@westfailure.net>
> Subject: Re: ebay rant (short)
> 
> <Sigh, how did I get sucked into this...>
> 
> I agree that what you illustrate does happen, pretty frequently even.
> 
> I'm just saying that person with the $31 bid (in your example) is paying
> more than the item is worth. That mentality leads to big credit card bills
> and no groceries at the end of the month. Dumb.
> 
> Bid what it's worth and forget, any other way is a money trap.
> 
> Waiting to post your first bid until the very end is effective but you're
> going to lose to a person with a big checkbook and overblown sense of value
> no matter when that person bids, if they want the same thing you do.
> 
> The real key is bidding on crap nobody else wants ;) Speaking of, somebody
> buy my car...heh.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christian Els
> 1987 Scirocco 16V, For Sale
> www.schnellpc.com/scirocco.htm
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jester@w...>
> 
>> hate to say it, but i have gotten some great deals through sniping.
>> 
>> Thing is, many people on e-bay are willign to go up and up and up just to
>> win something, I'm not.
>> 
>> What my experience has been, if i decide its worth $30 to me, and the bid
>> is at $15, if i put in the 30, the other guy that wants it will see my $30
>> and decide he's willing to go $31 to beat me.
>> 
>> If i snipe at $30 with 3 seconds left, and the $25 bidder had his max bet
>> set qat $20, he doesnt have time to go back and change it to $31, I won at
>> $30.
>> 
>> I have actually seen this happen in real life when i did my sniping at 5
>> minutes instead of 5 seconds.
>> 
>> My e-bay policy. If i kinda want it, i put in my max price & sit back and
>> see what turns out. if i really want it, i wait until 5 seconds left &
>> place my bid then. My max price doesnt change, its just kept a secret from
>> other bidders until its too late for them to change their bid to beat
>> me... In other words, a guys max price may be $20, till he's loosing then
>> his irrational testosterone complex kicks in & he goes to himself "ill sho
>> you" and puts in $40... i'm avoiding all "i'll show you" bids by sniping.
>> 
>> not arguing, just telling you that i truly believe sniping is better
>> because that way i am the only guy that can know a) i am even interested
>> and b) what my max bid bid is.
>> 
>> take care,
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
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