"Ed" none@this-time wrote in message
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Or, like happened to me today. An Item I was bidding on back before
Christmas was won by someone who bid twice what it was worth. Today, I was
contacted by the seller telling be the bidder had defaulted on payment and
offering it to me. My problem/blessing is that I purchased another one off
the ARRL classifieds and I am hoping it shows up and is as nice as the one
I missed.
73,
Ed-KV5I
"Antonio I0JX" wrote in message
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My classic eBay bidding technique is to look long and hard at an item,
think it over, and then bid my maximum price - once, by proxy. If I
win, fine, if not, then it wasn't meant to be.

Just one comment. Bidding once is a good technique, provided that you only
place your bid 20 seconds from auction end.

As a matter of fact bidding hours or, worse, days before auction end will
give others time to place successive bids in small increments, until they
surpass you by just 1$.


And how is that a successful strategy for THEM? Doesn't somebody else then
just bid a minimum increment over them, and now they aren't the winner
either? So then they have to go back and bid up again, till they are the
high bidder once again.

This technique may harass bidders and inflate the auction price, but it's
not a way to win. The winner, despite having an unknown high bid, ALWAYS
wins by just the minimum increment.

Ed
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