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The other day I discovered a new feature in eBay. eBay regulars will recall that you used to be able to see your maximum bid on your "My eBay page". While that has not yet returned, if you bid against yourself, and don't increase the bid, you now (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New usefull feature in eBay
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(...) or just filter your confirmation email that eBay sends out into a folder, then if you don't remember your max, go back and check the email.. they include your max when you first join the auction :) J (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Well, I do do that, but it doesn't help when I place bids from home, and the e-mail is removed from the server. This is also easier than trying to find the bid e-mail among the forest of bids... (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Hrmmm, you pop at home? Why not just have it leave it on the server in both places? You have to manually delete from time to time, but I don't know what I'd do without having access to mail at work and at home... (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Frank, So, you are now winning so many auctions you actually have to bid against yourself to liven things up? BTW : Does ebay recognize you were the last bidder and only increase your max... or does it actually let you bid against your self? (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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I don't know of many ISPs that allow 100+ Megs of email on an account ;-) Most are limited to 10Meg. (...) ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Well, most NORMAL people don't have 100+ megs of e-mail. Notice, I did say he'd need to manually delete mail from time to time, as I do. (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Well, that's another confirmation that I ain't normal. Thanks Mike :) Kevin (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New usefull feature in eBay
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Scott-A wrote in message ... (...) It just increases your max. Here's what the bid confirmation looks like (with my maximum bid removed to protect the guilty): (...) And here is what it says if I bid something less than my maximum: (...) Frank (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) what i do is this.. pop at home (onyx@flash.net), removing msgs from the server when they are retrieved... then i use the inet link at work to access a 2nd inet mail account (jboen@excite.com)... the web-based mail allows you to set up (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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