Very good advice! The only thing I can add to that is, whenever you come upon something that you want that has a But It Now price that is right, click it immediately, before someone else either clicks it or bids something that turns it off.
Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 > -----Original Message----- > From: mishka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Pentax lens prices > > > > That's how crazy ebay is. > > ebay is not crazy. people who have no idea what they are doing, are. > there's very little need in bidding more than once. > preferrably, in the > last 0.1 second > (sniping that is). and, in general, unless the starting bid is 1c and > you just using "items i am bidding on" > section to track things, there's basically no need to bid more than > once, no matter what. > (ok, there are some very special circumstances when it does > make sense, > but i don't want > to go too deep into ebay theory :) > and, no matter what, bidding war is always a bad idea. there's no > excuse, period. > just bid once, bid the max you care to pay and never open the listing > page again, until the > game is over. > > mishka >
