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Hi  Rod  and  others...  To  answer  your  question...If a  bid  is
setting at  $15  and  i  want  to  bid  say  $20  and  do  that  and  when
I  bid  someone  has  outbid  me  by  proxie  I  then  say  well  okk  I
want  that  rig  and  it  is  worth  $75  to  me  to  get  it  and  I  bid
$75  it will  then  look  at  all  other  bids  to  see  someone else  has
a max  on  file  and  raise  it  to  that  price  but  not  my  $75...Then
if  someone  else  wants  it  and  puts  $100  in  I  loose  my  proxie
until  i  renew  it....But  the  real  bidding  war  on  E Bay  is  the
last  2  minutes...Thats  when  everyone  that  wants  it  is  there  to
protect  there  bid...  I  just  got  a 51J4  in  the  last  20  seconds
of  the  bidding  against  another  list  user  here...Hi!!!!  Hope  that
clears  it  up  for  you...Don't  take  it  personal  and  best  73

Bob  K1JNN/5

At 11:03 AM 3/16/98 -0800, Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph wrote:
>I am puzzled (perhaps just very naive) about the bidding on EBAY.
>There were several items that I thought I would bid on and did so,
>but with puzzling results.
>
>As an instance: An opening bid for an item was $10.  I bid $15 for
>the item (as well as my memory serves me) and as soon as my finger
>was lifted from the ENTER key, a message came back that I had been
>outbid by another and his bid was $16.  I then bid (immediately)
>$17 and, again, as soon as I lifted my finger from the ENTER key,
>the message came back that another had made a bid of $18 and the
>new bid level was $19.  Once more, somewhat skeptical and chagrined,
>I bid $19 only to experience the exact same situation: no sooner had
>I lifted my finger from the keyboard than the message that I had been
>outbid by someone that had bid $20.
>
>Now that may be a regular and understandable phenomena but I don't
>understand it if it was!  It looked to me as though it was somehow
>programmed into the server to simply raise the bid by $1 every time
>I bid (in an effort to juggle up the price???).  I became skeptical
>enough to withdraw any further bids.
>
>Can anyone please explain to me (1) How in the world someone could,
>with the speed of light, outbid me three times in a row? (2) How
>this could be done without an automatic programmed response from a
>computer? (3) How anyone would be caught continuing to bid up a
>price when they were confronted with the same situation I was?
>(4) Is this a truly legitimate operational practice and I have
>somehow missed the bidding protocol? (5) Etc., etc., etc.
>
>If, and only if, someone can satisfactorily explain this phenomena
>to me will I go back and make any further bids.  What did I miss
>or not understand?
>
>Rod, N5HV
>w5hvv at aeneas.net
>
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