Hi, Mark, I can't explain it. Or maybe I can, but I'm just too tired.
Or, more likely, I'm just a weird guy... <g> cheers, frank Mark Roberts wrote: > > I find this kind of weird. Whether or not an item has a reserve has no > effect at all on whether I bid or how much. eBay doesn't charge me > anything for bidding! I wait until the last moment and bid the maximum > I'm willing to pay. If the reserve is higher than my bid I haven't lost > a thing. There's no reason a seller shouldn't be able to protect > himself/herself from unusually slow eBay traffic (or even local system > outages that keep a bidder off line). I just got nailed by such a thing > with a K1000 I just sold: It was in near-mint condition with an M-50/2.0 > but eBay was very slow and it went to the only bidder for the starting > price of $89.00 :( > > -- > Mark Roberts > Photography and writing > www.robertstech.com -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
