Lan Barnes wrote:
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
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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.
I'm not sure why you want to buy another PVR-150. Although your cable
system will probably carry analog broadcasts for some time to come, the
future is digital. You can get a HD-5500 <http://www.pchdtv.com> for
$129 plus shipping and be able to receive NTSC (analog), ATSC
(over-the-air digital) and QAM (cable digital). It is fully supported in
Linux and will allow you to record HD shows as well as standard definition.
Gus
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