[rescue] SparcCenter 2000E on Ebay

[Kevin Loch]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:52:58PM -0400, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> 
>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3030937762&category=11216
>>
>>Looks like noone's bidding.  I'd certainly give it a home, if I had the 
>>room.  :-|
> 
> 
> It frequently looks like no-one's bidding, until the last hour or two.
> I've given up buying anything on eBay except for Buy It Now, because I'm
> sick of getting sniped in the last fifteen seconds by some asshole with
> an auction-sniping program and a cable modem when there's no time to
> respond.  eBay these days is He With The Lowest Latency Wins.
> 

I recently outsnipped two people bidding on some radio equipment.
I don't know if they were using programs, but I was doing it
by hand and won with 3 seconds to spare :)

KL