[Boatanchors] auction time linked to what timing source?

[Carl]

I cant imagine any other way of doing it since Ive no interest in living in 
front of the PC and especially when Id rather be asleep, out to dinner, 
dragstrip, etc.

Carl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To: <nq5t at tx.rr.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] auction time linked to what timing source?


>
> Amen, Grant!
>
> You simply decide what you will pay and enter your sniping bid.
>
> I consider it to be the best method to keep yourself from going nuts on a 
> bid!
>
>
>
> 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 (Oklahoma City)
>
>
>
>> From: nq5t at tx.rr.com
>> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:17:35 -0600
>> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] auction time linked to what timing source?
>>
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> > The practice of swooping in out of nowhere in the last few seconds
>> > when others have faithfully put in a bid an hour or days earlier in my
>> > opinion stinks.
>>
>> Well, frankly, it's the only way I bid there, although I very rarely buy 
>> stuff there anymore, or anywhere else for that matter -- too many BA's 
>> already, and if you don't believe me, just ask my wife :-) But when I do 
>> bid, I use a 3rd party sniping application with it's time sync'd to the 
>> time that place keeps.
>>
>> It doesn't always work -- in fact it most often doesn't work on anything 
>> I think I might really want -- because there always seems to be somebody 
>> who wants it more. With sniping happening or not, if you set your maximum 
>> bid at what you think it's worth, and get out bid in the end game by 
>> someone else, then you were saved from foolishly paying too much for a 
>> <whatever it is>. I do the same thing. Often times (most times?) my 
>> maximum bid amount will be outbid before the auction ends, or someone 
>> else who bid days before the end will have set a maximum higher than 
>> mine. And he gets it. There's always somebody who wants something more 
>> than I do :-)
>>
>> I don't think it's unfair or stinks at all. It's neither ethical nor 
>> unethical. It's just a case of using all available tools.
>>
>> Grant/NQ5T
>
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