[78-L] And to round out the trio from eBay....

[Taylor Bowie]

Michael,  Don't confuse Steve with the facts about sniping...he clearly 
cherishes his fantasy version of how the process works!


Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] And to round out the trio from eBay....


>
>> From: stevenc at interlinks.net> From: "David Lennick" 
>> <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>
>>> Not only that...but the ubiquitous "auto-snipe" programs have turned
>>> e-Wotsit and its "friends" from a functional "auction" into a "my 
>>> program works in
>>> fewer milliseconds than YOURS!" competition...?!  SCROOM!!! SCB
>>>
>>
>>
> This is rubbish.  Speed has NOTHING to do with it, only PRICE wins.
> WHAT you bid is more important than WHEN you bid.  Sniping is done only
> to avoid a back and forth and back and forth upping of bids.  When we
> use the auto programs there is no second bid.  You have put in your one
> and only bid, and if it is higher, you win, if someone else is higher -- 
> whether it be a snipe or an early bid -- they win.
>
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>>
>>
>> Snipe or be sniped. Eat or be eaten. Actually I found eSnipe to be a very 
>> fair way of bidding 99% of the time, and if I lost an item to someone 
>> with a bigger sniper than mine, so what? I sniped and was snope. It 
>> balanced out.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>
> You know how it works.  Steve still hasn't figured it out.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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