[rescue] Wow

[Dave McGuire]

On April 29, George Adkins wrote:
> >   Sure, I'd likely have won if I'd put in a $2000 bid a half hour before
> > the auction ended.  But you know, I really didn't want to spend that
> > much.
>
> Then the solution is a sealed bid auction.
> anybody who wants to bids, all the bids are kept secret until the auction is 
> over.
> 
> then you don't have to worry that there might be someone out there who's 
> willing to pay more for an item than you are.

  Hypothetically, perhaps...but this stack of SPARCs was on eBay, which
isn't a sealed bid auction, and we wanted them cheaply.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire                                 "Mmmm.  Big."
St. Petersburg, FL                                -Den