Amiga items on eBay -- advertising auctions on classiccmp

From: Tony Eros <tony.eros_at_machm.org>
Date: Sun Apr 29 12:13:22 2001

Yeah, but in much the same way that the phone knows when you're taking a
bath, my cable modem knows when I'm planning to snipe and on at least three
occasions decided to start resynching with the network about a minute
before the end of an auction I wanted.

-- Tony

At 09:27 AM 4/29/2001 -0700, you wrote:


>"Jeffrey S. Sharp" wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>:
> > > The current bidding system leaves much to be desired.
> >
> > I agree. There is absolutely no incentive to *not* wait until there
> > are 30 seconds left to go in an auction.
>
>As the saying goes, those of you who wait until the last minute to bid will
>always get
>beat out by those of us who wait until the last *second*.
Received on Sun Apr 29 2001 - 12:13:22 BST