 | | 76 Serious Lego Lots for Auction. Mmmm I smell plastic!
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Awesome auction! Multiple sellers! 76 lots and growing! Technic, Town, Trains, Castle, Pirates, paradisa, everything. Click to view or bid: (URL) 6921 Monorail Track Kit (smaller version) Lego Castle 6105 Medieval Knights, Unopened, No Res. Lego (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Auction: Train, Soccer, Town and more. Last lugnet update!
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Hi, Here are train,soccer and other sets for auction: All updates comes on a mailing list, on RTL and lugnet.market.auction, only on fridays. Please send me a private mail, and I will put you on the list. !!!...!!! This Auction will end on April, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | FA on ebay ends 4/26: 8480 Technic Space Shuttle NIB
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For auction on ebay a sealed 8480 Technic Space Shuttle. go see: (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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(...) Because shipping and shopping are marketplace discussions but not theory or technologies/techniques. A broad name like .market.discuss invites people to talk about everyday things like FOTW's and UPS vs. USPS, both of which have their own (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | [DISC] Shortcircuit eBay?
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I had an idea about how to frustrate snipers on eBay. I don't think I'm the first person to come up with this idea, but it hasn't been discussed much. eBay allows the seller to end the auction early. What if I, as a seller, made a clear announcement (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) then (...) final (...) For a Siege Cart?? Wow! Actually thats roughly 66% more, but who's counting. :-) OTOH, if he had bid $50 or $60 from the get go, when the minimum was only $6, its highly likely the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | New Auction: Model Team 5510 and 5540
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This will be a short and sweet auction of these two Model Team sets. Advancing to begin next Wednesday, April 28th. They will advance every 48 hours, including weekends, so going once on W, twice on F, maybe sold on Sunday, May 2nd. 5510 Off Road (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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(...) I like it: lugnet.market.discuss! (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, but a large measure of the pleasure is a negative pleasure, that of intentionally hurting other people. I'm pretty sure most people who snipe don't think much about it, they're just playing the game by the rules, but there are also plenty (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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(...) I was just going to say that. I think that a lugnet.market.discussion or similar would encompass all the issues that have been presented without misleading in any way. It's not as specific as .theory or .technology which I consider a plus, but (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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I like the idea of lugnet.market.auction.d (discussion) since most of the people must be looking for auctions in this particular group. Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) People like options. Right. But people, myself included, can hear of some (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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(...) That's not sniping, that's just bidding. Arrangements are nice, but they have to run with the acknowledgement that other people might bid on the lots in question. It still sucks to be you in that case. Steve "You keep using that word. I do not (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Yes. Should you be bidding in auctions if you haven't organized your life sufficiently to have bought insurance? No, you shouldn't. If you do anyway, and have to welsh because you didn't think things through, you deserve a black mark. Else (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I like market.theory better than technology for two reasons 1) as Todd said, cut back on people thinking they can buy CD players there... 2) Theory encompasses technology. 3) the Usenet precendent. OK, 3 reasons. That said, I don't think (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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(...) Why not lugnet.market.discuss? (or STB lugnet.market.disc? Use appropriate abbreviation here) The topic du jour may be auction philosophies and the best rules to build an auction around, but there are other discussion-type topics which could (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... :>Therein lies what I beleive to be the ugliness of timed :> auctions - they discourage bidders from revealing information (how they :> value a given lot) until as late as possible. : :Amen to that! : : :> Don't get (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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Tom Stangl wrote in message <371FAADA.E4CD7369@n...pe.com>... :Messages also help when a bidder is trying to bid on ALL lots of a piece, you only :want ONE, and after the bids get ridiculously high, you find out it's because he :needs "all the lots (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: ng for auction technologies/theory?
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(...) I agree that .theory is too narrow. What about market.techniques? To me that would seem to encompass the theory aspect to a certain extent as well as the use of technology. Anyone can discuss tips on what/where/how/when to buy/sell. I had (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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(...) I think what ultimately hurts an auction site (or any site, for that matter) is not giving people the features they want. How many IRL auctions have you -ever- heard of that -didn't- allow large bid jumps? The kind of jumps that cause the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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