I'm not sure that "Shill Bidding" is viable.
You have your friend bid it up to.... where? If your friend doesn't quit soon
enough, he wins your car; then what do you do? Now, he has to sell it, or you
have to come up with a reason you are selling it again. Non-paying bidders are
not common and a couple of those will have bidders wondering why nobody wants
this car after they win it. Granted, odds are no one is watching, but people
are sharper than crooks give them credit for and patterns of behavior and
unique items are noticed. More likely is someone gets nervous that their
treasure is going too cheap and has a friend bid, doesn't seem sporting to me,
but in the end, they can't make me pay more than I want for something.
eBay auctions are unique to the world in they end by a clock. "English"
auctions go until no one wants to bid anymore. eBay thinks their way is
superior (this applies to everything eBay has done and ever will do) but what
they don't consider is best illustrated with this steering wheel. It will
usually be won by he who bids the most at the last second. eBay says to put in
your highest bid well ahead of the end, but that doesn't work as humans will
pick away at something until they find out what is inside. So if you are on a
budget, you will pay more unless you snipe.
So if you have a fresh $30K restoration but no steering wheel on your TR-6,
you can put in a million dollar bid as eBay suggests, or go snipe hunting on
that NOS part.
On Guns America, their auctions refresh for ten minutes every time a bid is
placed. Just like the farm auction, at some point, one of the last two bidders
is going to say: "I'll get the next one" and the clock will run out.
That refreshing and extending allows one to get the item, and get it for the
cheapest price of that item on that day. Your time has value. It respects the
seller and bidder. The item brings what it is truly worth on that particular
day, high or low, not cut short by a clock as fifty different people roll the
Snipe Dice with 10 seconds left to go.
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