[78-L] Casals/Bach

[Michael Biel]

If you look at the bid page, they state right on top how many different 
bidders there are, and they only count the actual bids, not the 
automatic bids.  So if you start high and someone does a step bid but 
gets topped each time, the number of total bids is only the number of 
his steps plus one for your one original bid.  You can click on the "see 
all bids" to see the automatic bids. Of course if you hadn't been so 
stupid to put in an early high bid, the other guy might have stopped at 
his first low bid and you could have won it with a snipe at a lower 
cost.  Bidding wars are dumb.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

David London wrote:
> Wouldn't bidder A get it for $50, since he was only pushed to that, and no
> higher?
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> Not quite. I discovered that, in trying to figure out what a single
>> bidder has posted as his high bid, that each time I increase the amount
>> I am willing to bid it counts as one of the bids.
>> For instance, bidder A decides that that Francis Craig on Bullett
>> starting at $3.00 is so rare and in such fine condition he's bid $200.01
>> for it. Bidder number 2 says, "HOH! I must have it!" and bids $3.51,
>> unaware that bidder A has the high bid. ePay promptly comes back and
>> says bidder 2 has been outbid, that he should no be prepared to bid
>> $4.01 for the pleasure of listening to Ms. Craig do her thang. Being
>> expansive, he bids $5.02. eBay jack's the price up to $5.52. At this
>> point bidder 2 says, "Hah! Just what is this fershlugginer bidder A up
>> to?" and bids $50.00. eBay calmly says, No deal," and tells him to bid
>> more than $50.50. So, we're nowe up to 4 bids and there are only two
>> bidders.
>> You can see where this is going, no? Yes! Bidder A takes it for $200.01
>> because bidder B, disgusted and depressed, has just drawn and quartered
>> himself. Quite a trick, that.
>> So it could just be two people.
>> Mal
>>
>> *******
>>