On 2/28/2009 7:33 PM mm spake thus:

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:24:59 -0800, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

On 2/28/2009 3:13 PM mm spake thus:

I have had that. A totally new bidder outbid me with 2 seconds left.

You do know about sniping, right?

So that's what you call it. I guess I know now. Thanks.

I looked it up and it seems there is also software to do this. That
would account for how they are able to make it so close to the end.

In fact, that's the only way to do it. (I suppose if you had a
super-high-speed connection that was reliable, and had lightning-quick
reflexes, you *could* do it manually.)


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