Re: A Golden Opportunity!

From: Watson A.Name - \ (NOSPAM_at_dslextreme.com)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:20:08 -0700

"Michael A. Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote in message
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> "Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com>
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> > "John Miller" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> >>
> >> There's no sincerer eBay purchaser than me, and I've discovered
> > through
> >> hard-won experience that the practical way to be successful in eBay
> >> auctions is to snipe.
> >
> > What's the advantage?
> >
> > Sniping or not, You bid low, You Lose.
>
> See how little consensus there is about the real effect of sniping? I
think
> this is because sniping is an unreliable and inefficient way of doing
what
> it does. Sealed bids would do the job reliably.

But you contradict yourself. You keep on saying that sniping is no good
in one way or the other, but you never say who it favors or disfavors.
And you want to change it, but you don't convince hardly anyone that
it's worth the effort, especially the one you really need to convince,
Ebay. We the bidders don't seem to share your concerns, and we just
live with it, and do what we have to do, assess the auction in an
appropriate way, and whether or not sniping goes on, we win or lose and
if we lose we move on to the next auction for the same item. No big
deal. Yet if the sniping was such a problem, you would see more bidders
leaving Ebay and going to other auctions where it has been 'fixed'. But
they're not. Ebay is as popular as ever.

So now what??? Will you stop "preaching to the choir" and go preach to
the
ones who really make a difference? It's not doing anything to change my
mind! I'm not going to Astrowhatever, I'm still bidding on ebay.

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  • Re: How about a change in eBay policy to end snipe bidding
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  • Re: How about a change in eBay policy to end snipe bidding
    ... I find it comical that people still whine about sniping. ... get outbid in the last seconds of an auction, and feel as though they should ... A better deterent would be to just bid your max for an item if you ... but it takes away the fun of putting something up on eBay. ...
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  • Re: How about a change in eBay policy to end snipe bidding
    ... I find it comical that people still whine about sniping. ... get outbid in the last seconds of an auction, ... have an opportunity to bid again as they could for instance in a live ... but it takes away the fun of putting something up on eBay. ...
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