On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:03:23 GMT, Howard wrote:

Tim Douglass wrote:

I actually do that a lot on e-bay. It works there as well as anywhere.
When people see 5 essentially identical auctions and one has a current
bid that is much higher than the others they will avoid that one. Even
the snipers seem to skip them.

Interesting strategy. I'll make a note to look for that.

Although it seems that might sometimes be hard to do, since the proxy
system will only enter a current bid one increment over the previous
high bid.

Only works if someone else is essentially doing the same thing and you
have a higher maximum than they do (usually easy early in an auction).
The point is to simply get the bid up to where it no longer looks like
a "hot deal that everyone else missed".

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com