[Amps] RE: Snipers are the scourge of Ebay]

[Arthur Moe]

This is true, but it all comes down to being disciplined in your price. DO NOT get
caught up in the bidding wars.  Decide what you want to bid and don't go higher.

Art


Bill Turner wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:06:12 +0000, Arthur Moe wrote:
> 
> >If I think that there is a shill in the
> >bidders all I have to do is not bid or bid at the last second so the shill can
> >NOT up the bid.
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> 
> That would be true if the shill is bidding manually, but there is no
> reason for a shill to do so.  Ebay uses proxy bidding which works
> great for shills.  The shill places his high bid early and lets the
> rest of the bidders whale away.  The only way you could beat proxy
> bidding is to time your bid to arrive literally within the last
> fraction of a second, which is impossible to do given the latency of
> the internet.  Even if your bid arrives with a tenth of a second to
> spare, the proxy shill bid is already in ebay's computers.  You lose.
> 
> --
> BT