From: HOWARD WRIGHT (dvsww2@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 11:11:52 PST
Jim, I used to bid the item at the first and follow it all the way through.
I found out that if guys saw me bidding, they knew it was a good item.
These days, I'm book mark it as a favorite and watch it and bid the last
minute or so. Just a different stragedy.
> [Original Message]
> From: <Renactr2@aol.com>
> To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Date: 3/22/02 4:48:03 AM
> Subject: [MV] Auction ethics
>
>
> 15 Minutes? Try 5 seconds!
> Usual bidding against a couple of other collectors, then in the last 5
> seconds come a bid from a new person.
>
> Of course it all still revolves around what your max price is going to
be.
> You can always say, "Well I said I would only go XX.00 but, what the
hell, I
> would have paid a dollar more to have won the item." But what if the
other
> fella was willing to go a lot more.
>
> These days, I make up my mind what I would really spend on the item,
> regardless of the testosterone-based "I gotta win the bid" urge. I plug
that
> in in my first bid and if I get it, great! If not, oh, well.
>
> Still, it erks me that some one gets the bid at the last second when I
think
> everyone else has given up and I will soon add the item to my collection.
>
> Gotta put some Zen in your life!! <g>
>
> Cheers
> Jim
>
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