Oh? Wait. I use a sniping service so they can not know am going to place a bid unless they are telepathic.
(GRIN)
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Graywolf wrote:
Remember many folks who by from Ebay are out in the boonies and there are no
shops that sell reasonalbly nearby. They are also not knowledgable about the NYC places. So what seems like a lot to us, may seem like a bargain to them.
True. But I've done searches on completed items and found the same things selling cheaper a month ago (approx.). Consistently cheaper. So I would tend to conclude there is some reason for that. Either the advent of DSLRs (and more people buying them all the time), the approach of Xmas, or the alignment of the planets. :-)
But, IIRC, RIGHT before Christmas is a good time to bid.
OTOH, I've never quite figured out why when *I* leap in on an auction, 80-90% the bidding goes higher than it did a week ago (completed items) on the same thing. How does *that* happen? ;-)
It must be sort like the umbrella thing.
I got in a stupid bidding war with one guy last week. FOUR DAYS before the close, we bid a lens up $50 in about two hours. Then I realized what was happening -- we were both staking out territory. Claiming it as ours. That was too silly so far ahead, so I dropped out. Bidding can be insane, appealing to our competitive natures. When it isn't really ABOUT that, it's about getting what we want the cheapest that we can.
Bidding in the last 3 minutes is still best, if it hasn't already gone too high by then. Trouble is, one can't always be online at the time.
Marnie aka Doe Ebay is dangerous. ;-)
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
