[PRCo] Sniping

[Kenneth Josephson]

Ah, but if the person you're sniping already has a humungous amount in place and
you top him, you wind up with a very expensive map.  Or if you miss, like I did
one time, you wind up with a very angry competitor. I once made a guy pay $40.00
for a single TMER&L weekly pass. Ooooops! The biding was at three dollars, I
waited until there was twenty seconds left, bid $39.00 and found out the guy had
a large proxy in place. The guy has sniped me on so much TM stuff, I really
didn't feel too guilty.

But now Mark is branching out from strictly Pittsburgh stuff.....Mark, once you
go after North Shore Line stuff, you're in the ring with the most vicious
eBayers on the planet! :-)

K.

John F Bromley wrote:

> 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).