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

[John F Bromley]

Five minutes?  The swooper was an amateur.  It's a common bidding method for
those with more money than brains.  You wait until 20-30 seconds to go, then
bid some humungous amount and automatically go to the head of the bidding
line.  I've done it myself (no, it wasn't me on whatever you were bidding
on).
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Galt" <galtfd at att.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:54 PM
Subject: [PRCo] So much for my brief career as an ebay junkie


>
> 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.
>
> Don
>
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