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(...) Potentially. Most people build additional copies from their own parts assortments (sometimes in more than one color), which I think is swell. However right now I have 4 built up and those have to last me (I want to always have one "something" (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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And of course, the question is academic now, since I *did" win. One of the few times in recent memory that I beat the snipers at their own game... -- William A. Swanberg CPT, SC Commander, 229th Signal Company (TACSAT) swanberg@msn.com "Larry (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I may list MORE of my auctions to end during eBay maintenance... quoting from the listing: ((URL) don't plan on sniping this one. The auction end time is during an eBay scheduled maintenance period. You're better off with fire and forget bids. (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38A4D508.EF800A32@v...er.net>... [ ...snipped ... ] (...) Doesn't this essentially move the ending time of the auction up to when ever eBay starts their scheduled maintenance? As I recall, eBay scheduled (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Well, I THINK it doesn't start exactly at 12:00:00.00000 but instead at a somewhat random time which is fairly close but not exactly that time. So a sniper has to "guess lucky" or his snipe may be too late (or, tactically, too early). But I (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Huh? It ended at 05:13 PST, 13 min AFTER the MaintPer is over. That's tons of time to snipe... (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Well yeah... don't they extend the end time on auctions scheduled to end during maintenance times? Kevin (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) There I go, trusting what eBay told me again.... when I started it I got a warning that it would end during maint. Sigh. I still stand behind the idea even if I didn't happen this time. (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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I think that that ending time may be in error. As the high bidder going into the maintenance period, I was of course anxious to see the results after eBay came back up. I went to the site about 10 PM (which is 5 AM PST, sometimes living in Korea has (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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