Ok I guess I'll put my two cents in here. Paul's strategy will get a win if he is willing to win at any cost. I've used it and often I've paid more, in retrospect, for something than I should have. Gary on the other hand will never pay more than he thinks an item is worth, but he will lose more items. The argument "that's only because no else wanted it" should be phrased, that's only because no one else wanted as much as you did. Then it becomes a fair assessment and really cuts both ways. If you bid what you think an Item is worth and someone over bids you then you've still won. If you must really have the Item at any cost then snip away.
At 11:07 PM 1/23/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Gary Murphy wrote:. If I get it at that price fine, if not, I'll move on. > > > > > Just today I managed to pick up a Sigma 28-80 f/3.5-f/4.5 manual focus > for my grand-daughter for less that > > 18 bucks =including= shipping. I placed my bid about four hours before > the auction was over. I won it below > > my "high" bid. > > > >But that's only because no one else wanted it. If someone else wanted it, >and bid at the end of the auction, you >would not have won it. To ensure a win and avoid raising the price >unnecessarily, you hold your bid until the very >end of the auction. It's simple. But I don;'t care if people don't want to >play that way. It just makes it easier >for those of us who do. >Pauls >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
