Conan, what is best in life?!

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Crush your enemies,
see them driven before you,
and to hear the lamendations of those *&$$## snipers when they lose to
an honest bidder!

Ah, the little dirty joys of ebay auctions.


- Q

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qfrost wrote:

> hear the lamendations of those *&$$## snipers
> when they lose to an honest bidder!

Flip flop much?

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qfrost, I agree on your first view on bidding. Inflating the price when
there's 6 days left is kinda silly. If you really want the item you're
going to have to wait for the last few seconds and duke it out. It's
unfortunate but that's the way it goes.

-c

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Why don't you just set a *snipe* for the maximum you're willing to bid,
because you'll never get everyone to just bid their max and leave it at
that. It's not gonna happen, ever.

When you snipe, you don't give the world an opportunity to keep outbidding
you. You'll win a lot more auctions at a lower hammer price that way.

I understand what you're saying, but IMHO it's foolish not to snipe (or at
least bid at the last possible moment.) Sniping is beneficial to all
buyers, but not the seller. What annoys *me* is when two bidders get into a
bidding war long before the auction is set to close -- what a waste of time
and money.

If I were a seller, I'd agree with your sentiments 100% ;-)

Randy

<seymour-shabow@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Sniping's just annoying. If everyone bid the max they were willing to
> pay, it wouldn't be necessary to snipe. If ebay would extend every
> auction for 5 minutes when a bid comes in the last 5 minutes, buyers
> would get more of a fair shake like at a live auction (going, going,
> gone!!) and sellers/ebay would get more fees and price.... they really
> should offer this format. Maybe they don't because some wiseacre with
> too many ebay accounts would write a script that would continuously
> place a bid on an item with no intention of purchasing it.
>

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True enough. Actually, I'm a firm believer in sniping. Just not
against me.

That's an honest position, don't you think? - Q

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Kansas Pinball wrote:

> If you snipe, as someone previously said, you
> are going to get it for a lower hammer price

Which means a lower fee for eBay. However, if eBay decided to extend
auction closing times because of late bidding, many bidders would stop
using its services (including me). Fewer bidders would mean lower
fees, too. Rest assured, Ebay wants to maximize its fees, and if it
thought it could make more money by extending auction closing times, it
would have done so a long time ago.

I'm not the author of what's below, but I agree with everything in it:

Yahoo Auctions offers extensions. Browse their site, and see how
seldom it is used. Have you ever bought anything on Ubid.com, where
extensions are automatic? I did, once. What a miserable experience.
Veteran sellers know that people who are willing to bid their max
(including snipers) are turned off by a format that gives lowballers
all the time they want to chisel away at the leading bid. It also
gives shilling sellers free rein to inflate the bids. It's not the
right format for a global, 24/7 venue.