At 5:16 PM -0700 8/18/01, Mark Perry wrote:
>Actually I find this very frustraiting, I have bid on several items
>lately and in every case I have someone outbid me in the last couple of
>minutes.
nope... try last few seconds... (my experience)
I have found that if you want to win anything on E-bay you have
>to watch the last few minutes of the auction. I unfortuanately have been
>away at the end of the auctions and I was outbid everytime by no more
>than $1 . Personally I think that trying to sneek in a bid in the last
>minute is underhanded and very poor sportmanship.
true, no doubt...
But what can you do?
...play by the same rules... however, I'm usually not willing to get caught
up in the frenzy of winning and pay some of the ridiculous amounts (like
more than you can buy new) for stuff.
I recently lost a bid on an item even though my hogh bod was the same as
the winner's... he bid the same amount 5 seconds before I did, so he won.
"Missed it by that much"
Gerard
>lol
>
>Mark Perry
>69 sprite MK IV (in pieces all over back yard)
>
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