<VV> eBay bidding/"sniping" (minimal gratuitous Corvair)

[Charles Lee]

Yes, bid the most you want to pay, but a bidding war may ensue if you give 
others time to outbid you ...

If you bid with time left, other bidders will get an email telling them that 
they were outbid, and they'll have time to get back and drive you up.

So, waiting until the last minute (actually last seconds)  might outbid the 
current highest bid, so make it your real max bid, because YOU won't have 
time to enter a higher bid either.

There was one thing I wanted (an unbuilt AMT Corvair Astro I model) and the 
high bid was about $40 dollars, and I REALLY wanted it, so I waited until 
about 5 seconds to go, and bid $300, hoping no one else was as crazy as I
was.

Someone else did (almost) the same thing, but only bid $75, so I got it for 
$76.

If I had bid high before that, the other guy would not have won (why do they 
call it "win" anyway), but if he had time to bid $80, then $90, then $95 
etc, he would not win, but just cost me more !

I've tried to outbid someone and realized that all I did was cost the other 
guy more money because I never did beat his bid.

So, I learned my lesson and became a "sniper" (like Nutmeg tried to "snipe" 
the California election by outbidding Jerry Brown, like she was buying "guv" 
on eBay !)

I avoid the grief and "snipe" anything I really want ...

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kenpepke at juno.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 6:12 AM
Subject: <VV> Fw: Fwd: Ebay bidding/weather(no corvair)


>
> Joe, you are correct and I will add:
>
> Bid the very highest dollar amount you are willing to spend.  That way if 
> you still miss it you will have no regrets.  It does not cost anything 
> because the bidding is limited to a maximum increase for each bid so your 
> actual bid will be the minimum needed to win.
> Ken P
>
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> Taruffi57 at aol.com wrote: [in part]
> To: Subject: <VV> Fwd: Ebay bidding/weather(no corvair)
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:19:55 EST
>
> <<snip>>
>
> I bid Ebay at about 10 - 15 seconds before auctions close.  NEVER bid
> until then.
>
> Joe Dunlap
> 57 miles north of Orlando
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