Carter-k8vt wrote in
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SamSez wrote:
Carter-k8vt wrote in
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SamSez wrote:

You truly don't get it, do you. Anyone who wants it has already
bid his max, and simply doesn't want to spend more than that for
it. If anything, he is laughing his ass off if you do out-bid him,
as he has aready bid all that it is worth.
"as *he* has already bid all that it is worth".

Well, yeah, but what's yer point?

Just because he has already bid "all that it is worth" to *HIM*
doesn't mean it may not be worth more to someone else.

Maybe *you* don't get it.


'yer point' is that sniping is worthless -- get it yet?



Like, the topic of the thread, idiot.

Well, I -was- replying to *YOUR* comment, no matter what the "topic of
the thread"; By your definition, I guess we are then -both- off
topic...
...which would also make you an "idiot". ;-)

P.S.

Sniping is not necessarily worthless. This is an *auction*, high
bidder wins, and if sniping gets your high bid in -before- the other
guy can get his high bid in...well, the sniping wasn't worthless then,
now was it???

Yes it is worthless. If you have already bid the amount you have
determined an item is worth to you, then no sniper is going to get it
unless he bids more than what you were willing to pay in the first place.
Period. Why is that so incredibly hard to understand for so many people?

If you just take the time to determine what you are willing to spend and
make that bid, you get to make it days in advance without watching the
clock or giving out your private information to a sniping service [who
you would still have to tell what the maximum is that you are willing to
bid -- just as you could have bid on ebay days before!]

On the other hand, if you are patting yourself on the back on how smart
you were sniping in a last minute bid that DOES win an item -- just
remember before patting yourself TOO hard -- nobody in the vast number of
people who looked at that item for the past N days thought it was worth
as much as you were stupid enough to pay at the last minute...

You aren't the one getting the bargain -- you are the one catching
bidding fever and winding up paying to much!

And don't forget too, if there is any bid shilling going on [heaven
forbid], it isn't going to faze the guy whose first bid was what he was
willing to pay -- either he gets it at his price or he doesn't. But
shilling sure does trap a sniper.

Snipe away -- particularly on anything I'm selling. I love seeing it.
It always results in more in my pocket than I would have expected.