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Re: $2,137.00
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:34:32 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Benton Jackson writes:
> Some people don't like "waiting until the last minute", calling it
> "sniping". But I do it all the time, it keeps other people from emotionally
> trying to top what I realistically consider a good price.
Yes. I feel sniping is a valid technique although I don't do it myself. I
think sniping really is just a way to keep your bid secret, even the fact
that you plan to bid... and a way to keep your bid lower than if you started
early.
And if you are a fire and forget bidder (like I try to be, but sometimes I
rebid, I can't help it...) who doesn't like stress, there are now actually
services that will do your snipe FOR you. You program in the amount and the
number of seconds before the end you want to fire, and it fires for you at
that time without you needing to be online. So it's still fire and forget!
(older services would do it automatically but used your net connection...
the one I refer to uses their connection which alledgedly is fat and close
to eBay..)
I don't use these but they're out there.
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| Some people don't like "waiting until the last minute", calling it "sniping". But I do it all the time, it keeps other people from emotionally trying to top what I realistically consider a good price. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
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