I have read all these posts on this subject and my 2 cents is place the bid
for the value you are willing to pay and walk away. You will win or not.
This takes personal discipline. Amateurs snipe. It makes no difference if
you are the ultimate consumer or a reseller. You must establish its value to
YOU. Bid it and leave. You will never, ever bid too much. You will lose a
lot of them. If you regret an auction loss, then you didn't bid enough in
the first place. If somebody bid more, then it had more value to him than
you, so what. Anything else is entertainment and for that, I have no
comment.
Steve

"Nick Hull" wrote in message
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I was interested in some dial calipers that "800 watt" sells on ebay, he
seems to put a couple up for auction every week. When the price on the
one I was bidding on got too high, I dropped out and instead bid on an
identical item that had been listed for several days at $13.99 with ZERO
bidders. With 2 days to go I put in an initial bid at $13.99 with a
maximum bid of $18. In less than 60 seconds after my bid was accepted I
was outbid! And my shill-o-meter started activating.

How could someone outbid me in a minute on an item that had been sitting
for days with no bids and had 2 days to go and there was another
identical item with no bids? Could this be anyone but the seller? If
there had been a starting bid by someone else obviously they would have
gotten an e-mail that i outbid them, but who gets notice that I entered
a starting bid? Can anyone tell me what is going on?

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