[LargeFormat] EBay

[Vince Dobson]

nOOOOOOOOOOOOO Stan,

Look at it this way.  Most bidders (I've won against a lot) want to be
showing as the high bidder.  If I bid on something either directly or by
letting Ebay's proxy bidding do it for me, the other bidder will increase
his until he is higher than me and here it goes see-sawing up.

I do exactly like you said - research and decide the maximum I am willing to
pay ---- enter that bid with auction sniper and they place my maximum bid I
am willing to pay 7 seconds before the end so that no reactionary bidder can
increase what I will have to pay.  If you want to pay more then let eBay's
proxy do it for you --- don't you see Ebay's proxy keeps you the highest -
the other dude's proxy (or direct bid) keeps him the highest.  This works
best for the company running the auction that benifits from the increase of
their percentage on what the item brings ---- of course they want you to use
their proxy bidding!!!

Do the math and think about it.  I enter the maximum I want to pay 5 seconds
before the end - I either get it or I don't, but I don't have to go back and
increase my bid because someone had increased theirs to be higher than mine.

I've bought 2 Omega D5XL enlargers, a 16", a 26" and a 31" Kreonite
automatic processors, Wing Lynch and Photo Therm film processors, a 8x10
Zone VI, a Wisner expedition 4x5, a Tachahara 4x5, about 20 lens, paper and
huge lots of film this way and never enter a bid except within the last 5 or
7 seconds of the auction.  I've never therefore increased myself the price I
had to pay!

"EBay automatically bids for me" -- how nice of them to increase their
commission that way. :)



<This only works against an undisciplined bidder. Before I bid on something,
I research to find out what the retail price is, what similar items have
sold for previously, etc., then I enter the maximum amount I'm willing to
pay. eBay automatically bids for me up to that amount. When you come in at
the last second with a snipe bid, one of two things happens: either your
bid is less than my maximum, in which case I win the item; or your item is
more than my maximum, in which case you win the item with a bid larger than
I was willing to pay. If you bid more than I am willing to pay, it doesn't
matter to me whether you enter that bid 7 seconds or 7 hours before the
auction ends.>

Stan

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