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Re: auction bidding
eBay will bid you up to your limit gradually anyway. If really concerned,
you could place a bid with a limit 15 minutes before the auction closes.
Mark
on 2/25/03 9:46 AM, Greg House at ghunicycle@yahoo.com wrote:
> --- Mark Hamburg <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com> wrote:
>> Or you could just figure out how much you are willing to pay and set
>your
>> limit based on that.
>
> What? That would make the entire auction thing unprofitable!
>
>> Can someone tell me what the expected benefits of last minute bidding
>are?
>
> Presumably the benefit of last minute bidding is that you get the item
>for the
> least possible price, since you don't bid it up ahead of time and there
>are
> probably less bidders actually in the fray at the last minute.