Re: Why 58 bids from a single bidder? Message #3 Posted by Paul Brogger on 6 July 2006, 8:01 p.m., in response to message #1 by Han
I note the bid amounts all seem to be $142.50. I'm thinking a piece of bidding software stuck in a loop? (But does eBay let you re-enter the same bid amount over & over?)
A couple of years ago, I bid on a broken HP-42s. Then someone emailed me via the MoHPC site, asking whether, in light of my articles on Pioneer repair, I thought the article could be fixed. (I.e., he was asking whether I could advise him on the wisdom of putting in a competing bid!) (I suppose I shouldn't use the same handle both here AND in eBay!) I responded that he'd put me in a difficult position, but felt duty-bound to inform him that, obviously, if I was willing to bid, I must think it had some value.
Then I encouraged him to join the fray, but added a request: "If you're going to bid, jump in with both feet. Don't incrementally bid up the price to within a couple bucks of my maximum, just to bail out at the last moment." (Of course, I didn't reveal my max bid.)
Well, he went ahead and did exactly that! Twenty or so bids of a couple dollars each, and a withdrawal just below my own highest bid. I'd have been seriously P'd O, except some third party jumped in and sniped the auction at the last moment, saving me the unhappy prospect of needlessly paying my maximum.
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