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Subject: [OM] Re: Now OT: sniping (was: Price of Zuiko 50 3.5 (macro))
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:21:29 +0000
I haven't bought anything on Boo-Bay in six or eight months, have only bid once 
lately, and that was just for fun to get things started on an OM-3Ti.  My 
bidding/sniping philosophy has always been to look at an item, figure out 
exactly the maximum amount I would pay for it and still think I got a good 
deal, snipe it for that amount, then fuddedaboudit -- set it and forget it.

I'm too competitive, especially late at night if I'm in my cups, as I rarely, 
but occasinally, am, to get caught up in live, last-minute, idiot bidding.  
Been there, done that, regretted it later.  And I always bid in odd amounts.  
For example, I bid $888.88 on a LN 35-80/2.8 Zuiko and $777.77 on a 300/2.8 
Tamron with all the accessories, got the former for $888.50 and the latter for 
$775.00.  I bid in amounts like $222.22, $101.01 or $234.56, and so on.

Or I used to.  I'm now semi-retired; got all I need, just not all I want.  But 
I've still got 2000 eSnipe points, and I'd hate to waste them.

Walt, odd any way you look at it

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston


-------------- Original message from "Wayne Culberson" : -------------- 

> 
> 
> 
> 
> > My eSnipe setting is 4 seconds. 
> > Walt, a sniper sniping 
> > 
> 
> I think your 4 seconds is not necessary, and may even be detrimental. 
> Actually, I set my snipes a bit more than the default settings. The reason 
> is, you have to have to bid in increments to meet the ebay settings. 
> Apparently if two snipes come in at the same time, the highest one wins even 
> if it is only a cent or two higher. I've won a couple items that way by only 
> a cent or two, and also lost one by a couple cents. You can see this 
> situation by looking at the bid history of course. So now I set my snipes 
> for the maximum time that I think a watcher will not have time to put in a 
> bid. That way, if another snipe is only a few cents higher than mine, but is 
> a few seconds later, he can't get in because it doesn't meet the bid 
> increment. That's also why I set snipes for odd amounts above typical 
> increments - sometimes you can win by a few cents. 
> 
> Wayne (who has about all he needs, and doesn't need to win any more auctions 
> either) 
> 
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