From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 08:35:44 PST
"OUCH" ......THAT HURTS. Its good to know that people are watching I lost a
bid like that...had the top bid for three days, then bam at 15 min to go.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan M Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:32 AM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: Re: [MV] GL got me good- F/U
At 11:24 AM -0500 3/22/02, JaxInCalifornia@aol.com wrote:
>
>You bring up a good point regarding me not calling GL right at that
>time. Let me respond to that by saying the best I have done prior
>was a returned call the next day, this auction was to be over in
>about 6 minutes. Typically when I call, somebody just takes a
>message, sometimes they call back, sometimes they don't. On this
>particular occasion like I said, I had less than 6 minutes before
>the GL auction closed, a phone call seemed a waste of my time and
>money, so I sent an e-mail by clicking "send e-mail" at on the GL
>site. Somehow I am not surprised you never received it.
[snip]
I think you need to realize that if you try to bid snipe an auction
and can't get in for some technical reason, you're pretty much SOL.
Thats the standard policy on E-Bay and Gun-Auction.com. Both handle
electronic auctions in pretty much the same way.
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