Re: [CR]ebay auction tactics

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli)

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:17:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]ebay auction tactics
To: chasds@mindspring.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <5423806.1159908587935.JavaMail.root@mswamui-thinleaf.atl.sa.earthlink.net>


Well, Charles, I guess you see the world in a sharply-defined way. At least your last paragraph seems so to suggest.

But there is a non-naive, STRATEGIC reason for bidding early. By bidding early and high for an item you dearly want you greatly decrease the likelihood that the seller will sell the item out from under you in a non-ebay transaction (especially if you meet the seller's reserve or high opening bid). If an item has no bids because everyone is sitting on the trigger for the last second, the seller (who doesn't know why people are not bidding) might be much more open to extra-ebay offers. And there goes your item. In this scenario waiting has hurt--not helped--you.

But in the end ebay chat is a bore. I know I brought it up as an incidental to a post and opened the can o' worms, so shame on me, but I'd rather hear about and see pictures of that Hobbs of Barbican Blue Ribband tandem of yours or one of your other lovely machines!

Cheers,

Peter Jourdain
Whitewater, Wisconsin USA


--- chasds@mindspring.com wrote:


> Peter J. wrote:
>
> "sense of fair play calls for all bids to be
> up front and early. We could go round and round
> debating the ethics of this....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Jourdain
> Whitewater, Wisconsin USA"
>
> *********
>
> No ethics involved. No fair-play either. People
> behave during ebay auctions EXACTLY the way they
> behave at normal in-person auctions. In a normal,
> in-person auction, no-one reveals how much they're
> willing to pay until the end of bidding. Ebay's
> proxy-bid system violates that basic tactic: it
> forces you to reveal what you're willing to pay.
>
> Snipe systems fix this problem, by allowing all
> bidders to bid exactly as they would at a real
> auction. Sniping makes ebay into a REAL auction
> site.
>
> Anyone who bids their maximum amount early is simply
> naive, or someone with deep pockets, or someone who
> enjoys showing off how much they're willing to
> spend, more than they enjoy getting a fair deal.
>
> Charles "I enjoy a fair deal, so I ALWAYS snipe"
> Andrews
> SoCal
> USA
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>
>
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