Re: [MV] Gl BIDDING STRATEGY

From: Jason Frisch (jenjas@cox.net)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 23:24:40 PDT


you can have fort Jackson if you let me have ft. Polk

Jason :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "GOTAM35" <gotam35@sc.rr.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Gl BIDDING STRATEGY

>
>
> > No, Tom, I wasn't kidding.
>
> Lets face it, we all want stuff as cheap as possible. I think ebay
bidding
> is a slow road down to the dark side. It has even turned me into a "steal
> it at the last minuet" guy (hanging my head in shame).
>
> I don't think you can beat the other guy out of stuff at GL. So here's
what
> I have started to do.
>
> I bid what I think would be a deal of a price early because it is a good
> chance I will forget about the auction and remember it about 10 minuets
> after it's over. This way if everyone else forgets I win.
>
> If I remember to sit in front of my computer at closing time, I bid my top
> dollar at 15 minuets before close. Of course I usually bid again with a
new
> top dollar amount a few minuets later if someone out bids me. It does no
> good to wait any longer than 15 minuet before because it will not end
until
> 15 minuets after the last bid.
>
> It took months for met to form this policy and I like it. Completely
> different that ebay. I also only bid on stuff at Fort Jackson here in
> Columbia, so don't nobody else bid on stuff there. Just kidding (no I'm
> not).
>
> Joe Trapp
>
>
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