[GreenKeys] eBay

[Nick England]

Yes, an early bid can increase your chances marginally -
a) I win if I enter an early bid that is high enough - then it really
doesn't matter what you and other snipers do.
b) I win if a sniper bids the same amount as my early bid. Early bids
beat late bids.
c) I can lose early and win later. If I bid early and underestimate
the value of something to me, I may get extra time to enter a winning
bid. For example, if you make a $100 snipe bid, and the early bidding
stalls at $60 (but the highest early bidder actually has a $105 max)
then you lose. But if I make a $100 early bid and that gets topped
early, then I get to re-think this - is it actually worth more to me?
is there something nifty here that I didn't see at first? is there
another nutcase like me who would buy some pieces of this thing that I
don't need? Should I make a snipe bid of $120?
d) If nobody bids early, we might all lose - the seller might get a
reasonable side offer, decide nobody is bidding anyway, and pull the
auction. It happens.
e) If I don't bid early and forget to bid late, I lose. I often see an
item and plan to make a bid in the last seconds, and then get involved
in something else and don't do it. I've kicked myself half a dozen
times for missing the final bidding. Yes I know signing up for an
auto-snipe service would fix this.

These secrets of eBay bidding are worth exactly what you paid for
them.....Enough of this, I'm going back down in the basement and try
to figure out how to align the printer ribbon with the type box on my
28ASR.

cheers,
Nick K4NYW
www,navy-radio.com


On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Ken Schwieker <ksweek at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I have to ask the question. Do any bidders really think that placing
> their bid earlier than the end of the auction increases their chances
> of winning the item?  Actually I like stair step bidders, their
> pretty easy to outbid, it's just those other snipers I have to worry about :)
>
> Ken S
>
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