On Fri, March 16, 2007 10:57 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 3/16/07, Rick Funderburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You have the basic bidding strategy down. Bid as late as possible the >> amount you are willing to pay (called sniping). Use a program like >> JBidWatcher to bid for you in the last 10 seconds. >> >> In theory, it shouldn't matter when you bid, as eBay has automatic >> bidding >> up to the maximum you are willing to pay. In practice, people get >> caught up >> in the emotional desire to win, so their maximum inflates as their bids >> are >> countered. >> > > To answer Lan's remark "someone has bested me by a buck". That is the > eBay automatic bidding engine, which increases the competing bid by > one bid increment over your bid, if that does not exceed the maximum > set by the other guy. When you enter a bid amount, it is taken as > being your maximum, if it is big enough, the other guy's bid is raised > by one increment and you are the top bidder at "previous limit + one > increment". > > There is an extensive explanation of this somewhere on the eBay site. > > My frequent tactic is just to bid as much as I am willing to pay, and > then leave things alone. If someone else wants to pay more than that, > so be it. > > carl > --
Thanks for the explanation. I found a new strategy for myself. I looked through the whole list (OEM PVR-150s, of course ;) and found a buy-it-now w/ free shipping that comes in at less that bid-and-shipping I was willing to go. 99.9% on the vendor and "not used." So that's what I'll do. Still half what you pay in a store. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
