Well I use sniping sometimes to avoid competative bidding on popular meteorites. Some bidders at the end loose their sense and just keep bidding till they win. Sniping just allows me to not tip my hand that I'm interested and I don't have to deal with the max bid nibblers...
Kevin --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I too have lost out many times to snipers, but I > look at it this way.... > > If I am interested in an item, and I personally > determine that I am willing to pay a maximum of $X > for it, then I will submit a bid in the amount of > $X. > > If someone else bids more than $X, either a day > before the auction ends, or two seconds before it > ends....what's the difference? They were willing to > spend more than I personally decided that the item > was worth. > > That doesn't mean I won't be disappointed in losing > the item, but if it goes for more than I personally > felt it was worth to me, that was my decision. > > Other opinions? > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list