Re: [MOPO] SPAM-LOW: Re: [MOPO] SNIPING IS NOT INFALLIBLE

2005-10-26 Thread Claude Litton
You are not bidding against yourself in your example.  You are bidding against a hidden reserve. Your prior bids will never change your original "high" bid until you actually hit the reserve.   For example, if the reserve is 150 and the start is 25 and one person has already bid 30.  That per

Re: [MOPO] SPAM-LOW: Re: [MOPO] SNIPING IS NOT INFALLIBLE

2005-10-26 Thread lobby card invasion
TOUCHE ! Zeev - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] SPAM-LOW: Re: [MOPO] SNIPING IS NOT INFALLIBLE > Bruce you jealous Ill be happy to let you take over anytime you > like. It did use to be y

Re: [MOPO] SPAM-LOW: Re: [MOPO] SNIPING IS NOT INFALLIBLE

2005-10-26 Thread wofshevy
Bruce you jealous Ill be happy to let you take over anytime you like. It did use to be your position. Al - Original Message - From: Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:32 am Subject: Re: [MOPO] SPAM-LOW: Re: [MOPO] SNIPING IS NOT INFALLIBL

Re: [MOPO] SPAM-LOW: Re: [MOPO] SNIPING IS NOT INFALLIBLE

2005-10-26 Thread Michael B
okay, bruce.how's this:   you bid with a hidden reserve and the first bid is $75.00.  you bid 90.  it registers 76.   then you bid 200.   it now registers 150, which is the reserve.   SEMANTICS   (i once bid on LOW an item with a hidden reserve and was the highest bidder, alt

Re: [MOPO] SPAM-LOW: Re: [MOPO] SNIPING IS NOT INFALLIBLE

2005-10-26 Thread Bruce Hershenson
I am 99.999% certain it is impossible to bid against yourself on eBay, except in the exact "completing the bid increment" example cited by Claude, or if you use two different eBay IDs that you have.  I am so sure of this that I will give a set of 26 books to the first person who can show me a bid