On Nov 22, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Peter Smekal wrote:
1. Decide for a maximum bid, place it early, and then stay cool and just
wait and see if you win, or
2. Observe the bidding "from outside", and get involved in bidding just at
the end, with the risk of getting infected by "bidding frenzy" (rising your
maximum bid several times, like the gambler who just wants to play just one
more time to hit the jackpot)?
Or 3. Go to one of the sniping sites on the web, and have somebody else's computer bid for you in the final seconds, in hopes that yours will be the highest when the auction ends. ;-) (And no, I'm not gonna tell you who I use! You might use it against me someday.) ;-)
But I've done all three, and they all seem to work. If you bid a high enough max. bid early enough, you will scare off the pretenders, as they try to nibble up there a few dollars at a time. Considering the serious bidders typically wait until the end to toss in their pennies, I think there is a happy middle there.
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-Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
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