With auctions like that, so long as you know about where it's going, and you DO want the item, it's best to bid high as you'd ever want to buy the item for, and let the automatic eBay machinery take over. Without special utilities made for inserting your higher bid at the penultimate moment (seems to me to be a grossly unfair product, in case anyone asks...) eBay will keep raising your bid by the minimum amount, as soon as a new, higher bid comes in.
The time spaces between bids on the illustrated auction show that happening. There is no way anyone could be notified of his bid being beat, and then he goes in and raises it. No doubt I'm speaking to the choir, but on occasion we do have a newby amongst our members! <g> keith whaley Ken Archer wrote: > > I have often wondered about that, but that is a little too close even > for me. ;-) > > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:26 pm, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > I won an auction on ebay once where > > there were ZERO seconds left. Apparently > > a tie goes to the bidder! > > JCO > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > << I sniped this nice piece of glass with one (1) second to go. > > > This is as > > > close as I can do it. > > > http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=1393808350 > > > >> > > -- > Kenneth Archer, San Antonio, Texas > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
