Sniping and heathkit prices on ebay

[Ken Dupuis Wn2Sqc]

Interesting about the supersniper's comments and suggestions.  One way
to limit sniping would be to have all bids made less than a minute before
the
end held by ebay and the winner shown only after the time is up.  This
would
somewhat level the playing field for all concerned except for the well
heeled
who would still win by bidding an outrageous bid in the last minute,  So
as with
most things in life, money talks. However, ebay makes the commission on
the
HIGHEST bid and seems to have an inherent interest in not stopping
sniping.
My 2 cents worth, Ken

On Fri, 18 May 2001 08:38:14 -0700 Marvin <marvin at RAIN.ORG> writes:
> Sniping is a no-brainer, and all it takes is a good clock and a
> knowledge of
> what the posting delay is (the time it takes Ebay to recognize your
> bid from
> the time you send it from your computer.)
> http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/supersniper/ gives some of the gory
> details
> for anyone who is interested. There are also services which will
> automatically do the sniping. And finally, people will always
> disagree as to
> the practice of sniping, much as they do the practice of Capitalism
> :).
>
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