Re: [CR]re: paramount track frame on ebay...

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:45:34 -0700 (PDT)
To: Steve Leitgen <sleitgen@charter.net>, "c. andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: paramount track frame on ebay...
From: "Kim Carney" <kjcarney@ucdavis.edu>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

It is not bid against yourself. What happens is that someone will make a bid and find out that someone else has made a undisclosed higher maximum high bid before their initial bid. The bidder will then keep bidding in increments until they outbid the high bidder or they decide the bids are too high. The way around this, of course, is to decide what the maximum amount you are willing to pay ahead of time and make your undisclosed maximum high bid. If you get outbid you can always make more bids if you change your mind and are willing to pay more.

Kim Carney Davis, CA
> Also in the don't get it category, I looked through the bidding
> history. At least three people upped their own bids. I will readily
> admit I am an e-bay newbie but does it make sense to bid against
> yourself?
>
> Steve Leitgen
> La Crosse, WI
>
>
> On Jul 25, 2006, at 12:38 PM, c. andrews wrote:
>
> > I suppose this just files under the heading of "I don't get
> > it.."
> >
> > How is it that a very poorly repainted Schwinn track frame
> > with nervex lugs commands that kind of price?
> >
> > That has to be among the most unattractive paint-jobs I've
> > ever encountered. Nothing like the beautiful, thin paint
> > the original would have had. You can barely discern the
> > outline of the seat-lug!
> >
> > I could see a fully original-finish frame of this kind going
> > for over a grand (not over 2, though)..but over 2K for this?
> >
> > I don't get it. Must be a Schwinn thing.
> >
> > 140007428468 For those who are still learning this
> > stuff...I was once, not long ago, still am too... this is a
> > textbook case of how *not* to repaint a vintage frame.
> >
> > Charles "doesn't get it" Andrews
> > SoCal
> >
> >
> > "It's impossible to make a man
> > understand something when his
> > livelihood depends on him not
> > understanding it."
> >
> > -Upton Sinclair