[geeks] FS: nVidia 7300GS, Athlon64 3200+

[Nadine Miller]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:13:54PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> How do you bid? I've used sniping tools in the past - just enter a hard
>>> maximum bid, plus a couple dollars cushion and let it go!
>> I bid up to the maximum I could afford (with shipping, etc).  I don't like
>> using sniping tools (I do it the old fashioned way); plus I can only bid on
>> one radio at a time.  
>>
>> I'm just mostly annoyed.  Spent the afternoon dealing with traffic, then
>> got home to find out I lost the auction for the R-70.  
> 
> The thing that annoys me is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to 
> win anything that anyone else cares about on eBay *EXCEPT* by bid 
> sniping.  And I hate both bid sniping and those who practice it.  Back 
> when they first started, eBay used to prohibit and punish it, then at 
> some point they caved in.  They could SO easily have made the whole 
> issue moot simply by saying "No auction will end until there have been 
> no new bids submitted in ten minutes."  (And end prices, and their cut 
> thereof, would very likely have gone *up*.)
> 
There are other auction sites that do this.  Given the lack of 
responsiveness of eBay's servers during heavy periods of use, I doubt 
they are willing to invest in the infrastructure necessary to enable 
such checks.

Sniping tools aren't perfect.  I've lost a number of auctions using JBW, 
but by using it I don't have to pay a lot of attention to the ending 
time of the auction--I can pick the best condition/best feedback/etc. 
item/seller and let the tool do the rest.  If I had to monitor eBay 
auctions that I was trying to win manually, I'd only shop eBay for 
used/older items unavailable elsewhere.  I'm sure eBay has figured this 
out as well.

=Nadine=