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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: ricercar on Fri, 11 December 2009, 17:53:41

Title: eBay bidding techniques
Post by: ricercar on Fri, 11 December 2009, 17:53:41

Do you have a strategy? Do you pay more than you expected to?

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/11/swoopo-and-the-thrill-of-the-kill.html

Title: eBay bidding techniques
Post by: AndrewZorn on Fri, 11 December 2009, 18:37:23

i go back and forth between last-minute and a true single maximum bid (ie, there is no strategy)

it goes without saying that the dumb ones out there, checking it constantly, boosting their bid until they become the new winner for a day or so, are the ones that create most of the pandemonium.