Re: OT: ebay sniping

[Greg House <ghunicycle@yahoo.com>]

--- Michael LaMeyer <m.lameyer@verizon.net> wrote:
> The difference is in timing.  If there's 7 days left in the auction, and 
>one
> person outbids you, the price could inflate much faster and farther than 
>if
> this same exchange occured in the final 5 or 10 seconds of the auction.

Maybe...

So you go in and put in your max bid 5 minutes before the end of the 
auction,
it's it basically the same?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just don't understand how it'd 
really work
any better. Is the idea that you're doing it so close to the end that 
nobody else
has a chance to outbid you? If so, what about the person that DID enter a 
larger
"max bid" and the Ebay system automatically outbids you?

Greg

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