Its you guys that don't understand what an INTERNET auction is about.
Here is the approach if you want to stay sane and still do internet auctions. If you read carefully, you will see it makes a lot of sense.
I bid what it is worth TO ME.
Then I FORGET about it.
If I win I will get EMAIL.
If I don't win, then no problem, as WHY would I want to pay MORE than it is worth to me? Even if someone outbids me by $1 at the last minute, it doesn't matter. It was worth more to him, he should win. If I was really willing to pay a buck more for it
I would have made my bid one dollar more. If you bid high enough, you will reach the threshold and that guy won't be willing to do the $1 thing because its NOT worth that much to him. Sure these people can be annoying, jumping in at the last minute, but
admit it, its mostly when you bid less than you were truly willing to pay that this happens to you.
I know its tough after Bill Clinton administration setting the pace for 8 years, but just be HONEST with yourself.
One doesn't ride an internet auction like a jet-ski if sanity is high on one's list of priorities.
Place one honest bid and forget it. Trust me on this one. You will end up with some very good deals (especially the autobid type as you will often get it for less what it was worth to you, i.e. less than your bid).
But you will not win every auction. Maybe one in ten. You don't want to win every auction. You only want to get items for what they are worth to you.
There is no 'worst' case scenario. You know long before the auction ends that either you get it for what you think its worth or less (if you are lucky), or that some other fool will think its worth more than you do. You don't want to pay at much as the
fool otherwise you would have bid higher to reflect what it is honestly worth to you, right?
In short, internet auctions are not a 'emotional' as real auctions. Leverage the auto bid mechanism. Bid and forget, no regrets.
Hope this helps.
Rgds,
Marty
Jeff Durling wrote:
>
> I just won a 2001 fsm and unfortunately had to do it this way. I have been
> outbid so many times in the last few seconds that I got pissed about it and
> decided I would do the same thing. I know it's wrong and I really don't like
> to do it but there was no bid except this guy for a few days and sure enough
> when I did my bid the last few seconds the price went up six bucks. I wasn't
> the only one and if I had not set my max bid high enough I wouldn't have got
> it. Anyway, bummed I had to do it but I really wanted the fsm. If I offended
> someone I didn't mean too.
>
> Jeff Durling
> '01 4x2 QC SLT+
>
> Chris Ryan wrote:
>
> > So I bid $64 on that a couple days ago and was pleased to see that no
> > one had out-bid me as of a couple hours before it was to end. I lost
> > track of time and wasn't around at auctions end, and sure enough, some
> > dick came along and out-bid me by $1 just 45 seconds before it ended.
> > Dude's lucky it wasn't a live auction, I would've taken a couple of his
> > teeth for bumpin me without giving me an opportunity to re-bid. Don't
> > people understand the concept of an auction, it's not whose quickest
> > with the keyboard at the end, it's whose willing to pay the most. I
> > would've only gone another five or ten bucks on it, that is if I'd had
> > the opportunity. Hope it wasn't someone on the list, don't mean to
> > offend (well, kinda), I'm just venting.
> >
> > On a brighter note I added a 200W 5ch Alpine amp, and a 10" Rockford
> > Fosgate sub earlier this afternoon. So the day evened itself out.
> >
> > --
> > Chris
> > Portland, OR
> > Black '99 Sport Plus CC 4x4 318 Auto.
> > 3" Rancho Suspension Lift, 32"x11.5" BFG MTs, SnugTop Expo w/Yakima Trac
> > System w/Fairing, Sea Kayak and Bike Mounts, GoRhino Grill/Brush Guard
> > w/2 130W KC Spotlights and Tow Hooks, Westin Nerf Bars, WAAG Tail-light
> > Guards, GTS Blackouts F & R, Mopar PCM, Taylor Pro-Spiro Wires,
> > Autolites, 180 TS, Cold K&N, Flowmaster Split Rear, Mopar Chrome Rear
> > Diff Cover, Line-X, Window Tint, Ventvisors.
-- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies." --C.S. Lewis
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