[PRCo] Re: THAT'S ALL, FOLKS

[John F Bromley]

There's no shill and they're not upping their own price - a slew of bids in
a row by one bidder shows someone trying to get in a higher bid than exists
at the time, and often when they do get ahead (and I do this myself
occasionally) they lay in some backups (sometimes more than one) to "get a
message out to other bidders" that they've got the lead and plan on holding
it, at least up to what they feel is their maximum, or at least (to them) a
reasonable maximum.  Thus when the next bidder tries to top the current
listed bid he might (likely will) find that he's just pushing the other guys
bid higher.  If an item is popular bidding can be quite interesting,
especially if some raving loon (to use Ivor Walsh's favorite phrase) gets
involved, as has happened here and on a 1944 PRC map a few days ago.  If you
wanna bid on eBay, better learn how it works or you'll get creamed.  Often
bidders won't bid at all until the last minute, or even few seconds, then
come in and cream everyone with a bid so ridiculously high that they
automatically win.  Those are bidders with more bucks than brains generally,
and who don't care what something costs as long as they get it.   Yes, there
are those in this hobby who have big bucks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward G. Skuchas" <eskuchas at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 5:29 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: THAT'S ALL, FOLKS


>
> on 8/6/02 5:12 PM, Jim Holland at pghpcc at pacbell.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Good Morning!
> >
> >> John F Bromley wrote:
> >
> >> Behold a raving loon.
> >
> >> Ed, how about selling copies of the
> >> museum's edition?  Looks like a big moneymaker.
> >
> > You Must Mean This::::::::::::
> >
> > eBay Bid History for
> > 1928 Pittsburgh Railways Trolley Travel Book (Item # 2126820595)
> >
> >
> > Currently  $305.00
> > First bid   $24.99
> > Quantity         1
> > # of bids       14
> > Time left     Auction has ended.
> > Started       Jul-30-02 11:42:53 PDT
> > Ends          Aug-06-02 11:42:53 PDT
> > Seller (Rating)   advman (1053)
> >
> > Bidding History (Highest bids first)
> >
> > User ID                 Bid Amount             Date of Bid
> >
> > gold_post (78)    $305.00     Aug-06-02 11:37:06 PDT
> > gold_post (78)    $305.00     Aug-06-02 11:36:41 PDT
> > loponrat (77)     $300.00     Aug-05-02 13:39:41 PDT
> > gold_post (78)    $279.00     Aug-06-02 11:36:26 PDT
> > gold_post (78)    $259.00     Aug-06-02 11:36:09 PDT
> > gold_post (78)    $239.00     Aug-06-02 11:35:53 PDT
> > gold_post (78)    $209.00     Aug-06-02 11:35:23 PDT
> > gold_post (78)    $179.00     Aug-06-02 11:35:05 PDT
> > gold_post (78)    $129.00     Aug-05-02 06:59:58 PDT
> > gold_post (78)     $79.00     Aug-03-02 14:21:57 PDT
> > gold_post (78)     $59.00     Aug-03-02 14:21:31 PDT
> >
> > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> >
> > James B. Holland
> >
> > Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation.......
> > ___"O"--Scale St.-Petersburg Trams Company Trolleycars and...
> > ______"O"--Scale  Parts  mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
> >
> > ______Pennsylvania Trolley Museum http://www.pa-trolley.org/
> > ___Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
> > N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.nmra.org
> >
> > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> >
> Asking John and Jim and whomever else can read into the bidding, what are
> these bidders really doing?  Why is one person bidding up himself, except
as
> a shill?  You fellows follow these lists quite a lot.  How do you read
this?
> Or is it really insanity?
>
> ED
>
>