Bugger.

[unixronin]

...that these days, it's an exercise in complete futility trying to buy anything on eBay that anyone else wants, except via Buy It Now, unless you have a multi-megabit connection or an account with one of the automated robot-bid-sniping services.

And to think that when automated bid-sniping first started, eBay banned it because it was unfair.  I guess they musta decided that fairness could go fuck itself, 'cos they made more money off the last-90-seconds bid-sniping wars.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Is it that you don't trust ebay and figure they will jack the price up to your max, even if nobody else is close?

No. It's that if I just got narrowly outbid on something I really wanted that doesn't come up very often, I'd like to have at least the CHANCE to reconsider whether it's uncommon enough and I want it badly enough that I'm willing to go, say, $20 higher and see if that's enough, without it having to be a twitch-reflex snap decision.

Is this a difficult concept to grasp? Nobody seems to be understanding it.

[attutle.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we see something that you don't.

It will always look like you were narrowly outbid. That doesn't mean someone else doesn't have a significantly higher maximum bid set. Why does it matter to you if the system shows you were narrowly outbid at the last minute or two days earlier?