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    Re: Question for eBay experts —Dave Oliver
   (...) Read the statements they have underneath the bidding box. By entering a bid greater than the current asking price, you automatically make a proxy bid. It's much simpler than 2 boxes, but I've only been on eBay since January. (...) Right. Your (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
   
        Re: Question for eBay experts —Todd Lehman
     (...) I remembered (incorrectly, it sounds like) that there once long ago was two text-entry fields -- one for a hard bid and one for a soft bid. I was surprised, confused, and horrified to see the first box go away [sic]. (...) 1. Because it's (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: Question for eBay experts —Paul Foster
       (...) Are you sure you aren't thinking of serious collector, didn't they use the two boxes like you are thinking? Paul (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: Question for eBay experts —Hao-yang Wang
     If the auction is in the format of "going-1, going-2, sold", a new bid will extend the auction for at least one more day, so you may want to place a high hard bid, to save everybody time. This does not apply to the auctions at ebay, which has a hard (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)  
   
        Re: Question for eBay experts —Mark Harrison
   Hi Dave, I work on the premise that the days of finding a bargain on ebay are long gone so if you have a realistic bid on an item, you will tend not to have to many bidders to compete with. You don't rely on an item that starts at a dollar and is (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
 

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