[PRCo] Re: So much for my brief career as an ebay junkie

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Donald Galt wrote:

> 
> It's all Jim Holland's fault that I started following ebay auctions - he tipped 
> me off to a couple of items and I did very well by them.
> 
> But yesterday something happened that I'm still fuming over after a night's 
> sleep:
> 
> I'd been watching a map which had received absolutely no bids, and put one in 
> myself a in the last hours. I kept a lookout, and still nothing further 
> happened. Five minutes before closing I looked away and that's when somebody 
> swooped in out of nowhere to outbid me.
> 
> Obviously this is no place for amateurs.

it's called sniping. a good sniper bids with less than 10 seconds to go.

if ebay would just switch to sealed bids already the problem would go
away.