Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > 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.
Yes, but don't put that bid in until the last few seconds. It can and will artificially inflate the price. Don't be afraid to let something go, it took me 6 auctions to get my 2m mobile rig for 90 bucks. There will always be another widget on the block. Mark -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
