Diana Satyr wrote in
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SamSez wrote:

Diana Satyr wrote in
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Sniping is eBay class warfare. Since I'm poor, if we all just bid
"what the thing is worth" and wait passively for the auction to
end, a person with deeper pockets than me will normally judge it to
be worth at least a bit more than I will, and will win.

Sniping has worked for me when the item is something few other
people want, but some specialist collectors like me do. It also
works when the item is a likely bargain (When it's listed in the
wrong category, say.).

Class warfare? Hardly.

Either you bid your max to ebay or you bid your max to a sniping
service [and give up your personal information to the sniping
service].

Either way, you offer the most you want to pay and wait and see if
you get it. Best you can do.

If you use ebay and just get serious with a one and only ebay bid,
you will NEVER be disappointed -- if you get it or not.

Think about it.

To me, nothing is funnier than seeing two or three bids come in at
the last few seconds, while I wind up getting the item anyway, simply
because I bid to ebay what I was willing to pay in the first place.

And I feel equally good when some idiots snipe-up a price to more
than the fair and reasonable price I was willing to pay in the first
place!

[On the other hand, when I'm selling something, bring on the
idiots...]



I snipe without use of a sniping service. All it takes is an accurate
clock.

Looks like my explanation of the value of sniping failed to take. I'll
try again. A well-off person will normally "value" any given
collectible at a higher price than a poor person, because: (1) no-one
knows the "standard" price of most collectibles, and (2) $500, say,
looks to a rich person about like maybe $50 does to a poor person,
because the two amounts take similar percentage bites out of the
discretionary income of each. I know this to be true. I've been both
affluent and poor.

This being the case, if the poor person just bids his idea of the
value of the collectible item and goes away and awaits the outcome,
he'll normally lose--excpept in the unlikely event that only other
poor people come along to bid against him on the thing!

It's that simple.

moonman

It's my understanding of how your mind works that has 'failed to take'.

Regardless of the reason, each person bids what they are willing to pay.
Period. Only I do it without waiting up till 3am and/or watching a clock
and/or giving out private details to a sniping service [where I would
STILL have to decide the maximium I am willing to pay].

I can only assume you are telling us that you bid without consideration
of how much you are willing to pay?

Please, let me direct you to some of my auctions.... Idiots welcome.