[ARC5] auction time linked to what timeing source?

[J. Forster]

Hi,

> It is certainly possible, although, in reality your statistics are pretty
> favorable also. As I travel on occasion on business, in fact now in San
> Diego for almost two weeks. Even on my laptop and the hotel connection I
> have won everything I wanted. Most of the time on travel I use a Verizon
> air card and I can still snipe and win.

Mike, the fact that you use an air card likely makes a big difference.
Some hotels use a company called "StayOnLine" and their performance is
just terrible. Their "pipes" are just not big enough to handle today's
data flow and they ration the bandwidth among users. If someone else is
downloading a large file, any sniping is utterly hopeless.

There are basically two ways to win on eBaY;

If you don't care about money, bid very, very high.
If you do care, snipe your max at the last possible instant.

The second approach effectively turns eBay into a "spot bid sale" but with
the feature that you never pay more than one bid increment over the second
highest bid, thus not "leaving money on the table" for the seller.

Best,
-John

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 Regardless, as you say, if one really
> wants it the best thing to do is to throw in a million dollar bid at the
> start of the auction, and then no matter what, you will get it, although
> you may not like what you wind up paying for it. Regards - Mike
>
> Mike B. Feher, N4FS
> 89 Arnold Blvd.
> Howell, NJ 07731
> 732-886-5960
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On
> Behalf Of J. Forster
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:11 AM
> To: Mike Feher
> Cc: 'Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.'
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] auction time linked to what timeing source?
>
> Mike,
>
> I do the sniping personally too, but typically allow about 5 seconds which
> eliminates a rebid from somebody watching. I've lost 3 or 4 items in the
> last year because of network delays. In some cases eBay has hung between
> "Place Bid" and loading the "Confirm" page. Oh, and among various accounts
> I've well over 1500 wins and I get >90% of the things I bid on.
>
> You may be luckier than I with the quality and network load of your ISP.
>
> -John
>
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>
>
>> John -
>>
>> Your FWIW is exactly that, and it is not worth anything in this case. I
>> snipe 99% of the time, and always with less than 10 seconds to go. This
>> typically does not allow adequate time for someone else to counter
>> snipe.
>> The only times I have lost, was, when my dollar amount was not high
>> enough,
>> not because of timing issues. I have NEVER lost because of timing. I do
>> not
>> count on sniping programs, I do it personally, since if I want it, I
>> basically want it. With some 4000 ebay transactions, those statistics
>> are
>> worth a lot more than your FWIW observations. - Mike
>>
>> Mike B. Feher, N4FS
>> 89 Arnold Blvd.
>> Howell, NJ 07731
>> 732-886-5960
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> On
>> Behalf Of J. Forster
>> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:44 PM
>> To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] auction time linked to what timeing source?
>>
>> While this discussion is interesting in the abstract, it really won't
>> help
>> you snipe very much because of the variable propogation time through the
>> myriad of computers between your keystroke and eBay's bid handling
>> machine. I've seen variations from almost zero to well over 10
>> seconds...
>> far more than enough to make effective sniping impossible.
>>
>> FWIW,
>>
>> -John
>>
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