I have always found that to ensure that I win
something I want, I must place my bid with about 10
-15 seconds to go. I f you place a bid days ahead of
time someone always runs it up.
John Holliday
--- Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> after being outbid for about a #1 for several items
> I wanted on E-bay I
> decided to have another shot. I set a high reserve
> bid but was prepared to
> set a still higher reserve bid if necessary.
>
> I was the high bidder for days but sat down in front
> of my PC for the final 5
> minute countdown with my 4 year old daughter (the
> 'toy' is for us to share,
> having lost or whatever the one I had when I was a
> kid). With constant
> screen refreshes someone bid over my reserve with
> less than 2 minutes to go.
> Needless to say I was able to put in a new bid with
> a higher still reserve
> bid with about less then a minute to run - I was the
> high bidder.
>
> I am relating all this stuff because this is the
> first time I have found it
> necessary to adopt this approach to win and it only
> cost me #1 more than my
> original reserve to have the high bid.
>
> Daniel1312
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