[rescue] Re: SGI Indigo2's
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Jul 1 16:05:35 CDT 2002
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 05:00:38PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > I've come very close to getting an I2 several times. I keep being
> > outbid in the last few minutes. I pick a number that seems
> > reasonable, but when I see it close for $5 more than I bid, I always
> > think I would have been willing to pay $5 more. Of course, if I had,
> > it would have close for another $5 more, and I'd think i'd have been
> > willing to pay $5 more, and etc. ad infinitum.
>
> One word: Snipe. If you treat eBay as a game, bid once and forget it.
> If you use eBay to GET something that you WANT, snipe it. (No
> offense, George.)
I snipe when I can, but I'm often busy and I refuse to pay someone
else to do it.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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