At 08:16 30/01/02 -0500, you wrote:
>One tactic I have noticed people using recently:
>
>Take an auction with no reserve, starting at $1 and a buy-it-now of, say
>$75. I have noticed a lot of people will put in a $1 bid to simply kill the
>buy-it-now. I guess this is in the hope that they can get it at the auction
>close for a lower price than the BIN. I dunno why this raises my ire
>slightly, I know it's not against the rules it just seems a little
>underhand... I guess it's more annoying to me when I might have wanted to do
>the BIN but was beaten by somebody playing this game.
Their objective in killing the BIN is to get the gear at less than the BIN,
presumably because they value it at less than the BIN. Therefore, this
"tactic" is no good against somebody like you who values the gear at more
than the BIN. Simply quote a maximum bid equal to the BIN, and you will win
against anybody who uses that "kill the BIN" strategy.
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