> >Because when you enter a bid, anyone can manually outbid you, as long > >as he has time. The earlier you do it, the more time people have to > >manually outbid. If you do it at the last second, no one has time and > >only automatic bids can outbid you. > > If you really bid the maximum you were willing to pay then you should > not care that someone outbid you. That item was just too rich for you > and you should happily let it go by. > > If you did not bid the maximum you were willing to pay and therefore > lost the auction you should have your head examined.
Didn't you read the example? I *did* win the item. I paid *less* than my maximum. I saved $40 over what would have happened if I had simply bid my maximum. And this isn't hypothetical: I've won auctions in exactly this way, and so have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of other people. Bidding your maximum makes no sense unless you aren't going to be around and can't do anything better. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
