> Until the problem is fixed, eBay is, IMHO, an
> utter waste of my time.
Not true. Just put in snipes for half what you think it's worth. You may win, and it costs nothing to try.
It seems you don't understand proxy bidding very well. If I want to see your max bid, I just bid with another account and then cancel the bid afterwards.
Making a bid prior to the last few seconds of the auction will definitely drive the price and the number of people interested in the item up.
Scenario 1:
You bid 25
Person X bids 6
your proxy bid is 7
Person X bids 15
your proxy bid is 16
Person X gives up
Person Y arrives. Sees auction is at 16, decides it's worth 20 based on that. Bids 20. Your proxy bid is 21. Gives up
Person Z arrives. Seeds bid at 21. Sets snipe for $31.
You lose auction. They get it for 26.
Scenario 2
You put in snipe for 25. Auction price is at 5.
Person X bids 6 and is happy they are winning.
Person Y bids 10 and is happy they are winning.
Person Z puts in snip for 16 figuring they'll win.
Your snipe wins auction for 17 at 3 seconds to close.
Which scenario do you like better? You get it for $17, or someone else gets it for $26?
I don't really see who's suing who here. I bought some of those christian audiger hoodies and that got shipped straight from china to me. So sue me? Or the guy in china. Best of luck with that. These overpriced designer labels are getting what they deserve. Produce quality goods and we'll pay a premium, otherwise stay in bollyhood.
You're welcome to spend the next 5 years finding out all the stuff we did wrong. Heck, on the way, maybe you'll find a security hole that forces all corporations to upgrade to the latest software, since we'll be dropping all support and maintenance for this crap now.
Let us not forget that these are the same ISP's now that forced out all the smaller ISP's, often by highly unscrupulous means. Now that they have all the customers, they're upset that the customers want the same service that they used to be able to get from small ISP's. Mindspring never had a problem with me using my dsl line at max bandwidth 24x7. Of course, maybe that's why they went broke, but that doesn't change the fact that they made their bed so now they're going to have to sleep (or die) in it. Bastards.
BLM got tons of political power from environmentalists funding them to close roads so people couldn't take their vehicles off the designated roads in protected areas. The considerate folks never took their vehicles off designated roads, and the incosiderate folks completely ignore the closed roads and make their own way anyway, typically doing hundreds of times the damage that was caused previously.
Forget why but I left citibank 15 years ago, I seem to remember they screwed me on some fee. Went to get some money for Poker last night, stopped by a citibank figuring to have to cough up $1.50 for the ATM fee. Bastards want !#$!@%$$3.00 ?? 3 Bucks? I grabbed about 1,000 of those stupid deposit envelopes and trashed 'em on the way out, I think we're about even.
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> Until the problem is fixed, eBay is, IMHO, an > utter waste of my time. Not true. Just put in snipes for half what you think it's worth. You may win, and it costs nothing to try.
It seems you don't understand proxy bidding very well. If I want to see your max bid, I just bid with another account and then cancel the bid afterwards.
Making a bid prior to the last few seconds of the auction will definitely drive the price and the number of people interested in the item up.
Scenario 1:
You bid 25
Person X bids 6
your proxy bid is 7
Person X bids 15
your proxy bid is 16
Person X gives up
Person Y arrives. Sees auction is at 16, decides it's worth 20 based on that. Bids 20. Your proxy bid is 21. Gives up
Person Z arrives. Seeds bid at 21. Sets snipe for $31.
You lose auction. They get it for 26.
Scenario 2
You put in snipe for 25. Auction price is at 5.
Person X bids 6 and is happy they are winning.
Person Y bids 10 and is happy they are winning.
Person Z puts in snip for 16 figuring they'll win. Your snipe wins auction for 17 at 3 seconds to close.
Which scenario do you like better? You get it for $17, or someone else gets it for $26?
Well now, that would depend if they had a free internet connection provided by their employer.
Hmm? Yeah, fucked, just like viacom.
I don't really see who's suing who here. I bought some of those christian audiger hoodies and that got shipped straight from china to me. So sue me? Or the guy in china. Best of luck with that. These overpriced designer labels are getting what they deserve. Produce quality goods and we'll pay a premium, otherwise stay in bollyhood.
Crashing a computer does not a security hole make.
Yeah guys where the HELL are the open source CPU's?
It's the only explanation for all the sharks with lasers that keep attacking my X1
Just establish another identity, or steal one, that's a lot easier then dealing with immigration.
OTOH, if I sober up, they'll never recognize me.
http://www.onebackup.com/ [onebackup.com]
$12.95 / month unlimited storage.
But no linux lol.
http://www.onebackup.com/ $12.95 / month unlimited storage. But no linux lol.
You're welcome to spend the next 5 years finding out all the stuff we did wrong. Heck, on the way, maybe you'll find a security hole that forces all corporations to upgrade to the latest software, since we'll be dropping all support and maintenance for this crap now.
Don't some of the Windows games that currently run under WINE have more FPS than natively under Windows ?
No.
This has been another edition of Short Answers to Stupid Quesitons.
Let us not forget that these are the same ISP's now that forced out all the smaller ISP's, often by highly unscrupulous means. Now that they have all the customers, they're upset that the customers want the same service that they used to be able to get from small ISP's. Mindspring never had a problem with me using my dsl line at max bandwidth 24x7. Of course, maybe that's why they went broke, but that doesn't change the fact that they made their bed so now they're going to have to sleep (or die) in it. Bastards.
BLM got tons of political power from environmentalists funding them to close roads so people couldn't take their vehicles off the designated roads in protected areas. The considerate folks never took their vehicles off designated roads, and the incosiderate folks completely ignore the closed roads and make their own way anyway, typically doing hundreds of times the damage that was caused previously.
They just had to leave england because the food sucked.
Free crack works too.
Michael Crichton doesn't give a fuck if his project gets funded or not?
Yeah, what's in a name anyway?
Well can't you sell the damn SUV Mom?
I've outsourced a lot of work on the web. For $300 you can get $10,000 worth of US programmer programming done.
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This is untrue. Never heard of ebay? Work 10x harder and 10x faster and you'll retire long before that corporate sucker.
Forget why but I left citibank 15 years ago, I seem to remember they screwed me on some fee. Went to get some money for Poker last night, stopped by a citibank figuring to have to cough up $1.50 for the ATM fee. Bastards want !#$!@%$$3.00 ?? 3 Bucks? I grabbed about 1,000 of those stupid deposit envelopes and trashed 'em on the way out, I think we're about even.