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Oh, my no...I have my standards! Just candy from babies, cars from little old ladies (once bought a '64 Dodge Dart for $75), and four-tracks from people "upgrading" to ADAT's. Daryl Shawn www.swanwelder.com > Have you ever taken coins from a blind man's tincup as well? Hehehe. > -- > > > ---- Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote: > >> My technique almost always is, I admit, to do that evil swoop in at the >> last minute, or last ten seconds, having not shown interest in it >> before. I suppose it makes it less of an auction, but unlike a real >> auction (which I attended many times in Pennsylvania as a kid), you >> don't get an additional minute to think about your next bid each time >> another bid comes up. Here it's a game of trying to snag it at the best >> price by a certain time, and bidding early just sends the message that >> things might get competitive and makes the other bidders possibly up >> their max bids. It is definitely a very intelligent thing to set a >price >> and stick with it, in my first couple of auctions (I've bought 25 >things >> or so) I realized that I could get caught up in the game and exceed my >> limit, so I actually do better coming in at the end without time to >> raise my max, too. >> >> I realize I may be a bastard. >> >> just my 2 cents...no, wait, 3 cents... >> >> Daryl Shawn >> www.swanwelder.com >> >> >>>>> The best way is to just put in your max and forget about it, don't >watch it till the end - you either got it or not, both is good...<< >>>>> >>>>> >>> agreed. bidding wars are of limited appeal as a sport. have you >noticed how everything is "rare" aswell? >>> >>> basically, if you start low on something relatively obscure, & no-one >else bids, & you lose out at the last minute by 50 cents, it was the >seller. the seller outbid you so he could relist it when the market's >ready to pay more for whatever it was. he was just testing the water, so >to speak. >>> > > >