[LargeFormat] Re:Ebay

[Bob Freed]

Half of my darkroom came from Ebay.  Like you I am a sniper.  I'll make 
the initial bid just to hold the auction.  If no one bids the person 
who has the item up for auction can cancel the auction.  Once a bid is 
placed the auction can't be canceled.  I use a Mac program called 
Preaco that is a very excellent program for sniping and auction 
management.

What truly amazes me about early bidders who us Ebay auto bid feature 
is when the auto bidder drives the price up past retail.  More than 
once I've seen people pay more for a used item then if they had ordered 
it new from B&H.

my 2 cents worth.

bobf
> Look at it this way.  Most bidders (I've won against a lot) want to be
> showing as the high bidder.  If I bid on something either directly or 
> by
> letting Ebay's proxy bidding do it for me, the other bidder will 
> increase
> his until he is higher than me and here it goes see-sawing up.
>