[AMRadio] RE: Another receiver update...

[wwd at netheaven.com]

>I'm not sure what increasing your own bid accomplishes unless you have a
>change of heart and are willing to pay more. Best to give the item some
>thought and place your bid in the last few seconds. You'll either win or
>lose, but at least you won't spend days nudging the price up higher.

Problem is to guage the (hidden) level of highest bid. Once you know this
amount, and often your first bid is in there already, you can jump in and
outbid yourself by a comfortable margin. If you are currently 'high bid'
your perfect knowledge will allow for setting a comfortable margin that
only a gung-ho banshee is going to surpass. Recently someone came in with
a  perfect match (!) but of course lost as my bid was first.

In the case of a nibbler who figures out your high bid during the last 10
minutes, you can protect yourself by a last-second up-bid of ~10%. This
has won it for me several critical times. If I had originally bid 10%
higher it would have failed for sure. 

And, yes, eBay bidders are lazy. Pick-em-ups are routinely ignored.

Bill
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