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I'm both a seller and buyer of lego stuff on eBay, as I clear out some sets to make way for others. I fail to understand why people get upset over "sniping". If there is something I want on eBay, I put in the maximum amount I'm willing to pay for (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Adam Yulish wrote in message <3638F22C.52FB3CAB@ee.net>... (...) Short answer: human psychology. Long answer: check the dejanews files (see my sig). Medium answer: In a lot of ways it is the principle of the thing. Someone hides until the last (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I was afraid that might be it. :) (...) Thanks for the link; a search on "eBay sniping" pretty much brought up both sides of the issue. (...) I think that's the key here. A post I found via the Deja news link you provided suggested that every (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) And they still have to be there at the end. This is another big issue other people have mentioned, that they don't want to arrange their lives around eBay. The only option to fixing THAT particular problem is changing eBay to allow much longer (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Well if you grant that psychology is a legitimate reason to cater to bidders (and if catered to, I think most would agree, the seller would get more money by getting people to inch up a bit from what they thought their max was) then fixed end time (...) (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I heard them on the radio too. In the ad they played up how exciting it was in the last few minutes of an auction. Julie (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) That's an interesting place to advertise, what market are they trying to relate to with an ad in TRAINS? (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) I heard an ad on TV about ebay (I was at the computer, and I can't see the TV, but I can hear it). (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) TRAINS and Model Railroader (which I dropped my subscription to) and Classic Trains (a tinplate and other toy train collector's mag which I never got, I like scale stuff better) have a lot of cross traffic. You find ads for proto videos in MR (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Christmas shopping mostly ( I was trying to build a tan and black helicopter...mostly only heard it too) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Ooo... Don't forget to post pix! :) -Tom McD. tfn, radiotitan@yahoo.com (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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