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Re: [OM] Esnipe Bidding

Subject: Re: [OM] Esnipe Bidding
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:45:04 -0800
on 2/9/03 7:31 PM, Clemente Colayco at litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I was bidding on an F280 flash on ebay but lost by mere 17 cents ! How could
> anyone be fast enough to bid just 17 cents more within the 6 seconds left?
> 
> Is there a bid program that allows you to bid a fixed amount higher than a
> previous one?
> 
> Titoy

The only way this will happen is if the other bidder's highest amount is
exactly $0.17 higher than your highest... then the snipe program just
determines when the bid is placed. If it was any more than $0.17, enough to
get the next higher 'bid increment' then it would have gone to that next
increment.

I won a rather large auction by less than $1 once... I usually pick somewhat
oddball amounts as my highest bid, and that time I was just a little bit
higher, but enough.
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney... 


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