- wrote:
I don't bother with sniping. I simply put in the price that I'm willing
to pay and that's it. And I don't go and watch the auction. People that do
always think that if they raise their bid "just slightly" then they'll win
the item. But seldom happens and all they do is to keep raising their bid
until they win and then they suddenly realize that they paid an absurd
price for something.
I was at an auction years ago, and won some equipment. The guy I beat was mad. The next item up for bid was used IBM banking equipment. I bid $1 for a Gaylord full of assorted tiny monitors and printers. He bid $2, then I realized there were 15 more Gaylord boxes full, behind the auctioneer.. He got stuck with 16 Gaylords of mostly junk for $16 because I knew that I had no space for all of it. He was even more pissed, after that. While picking up my last load of items the auctioneer gave me several workbenches and some steel shelving that someone had won and paid for, but didn't comeback for. Unfortunately, there was a scrapper biding for and winning HP and Tektronix equipment for the gold. :(
Michael A. Terrell