P3D ebay question

["Andrea Blair" <asblair@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>Someone wrote: Problem is you won't have the chance to bid up higher 
to "see" if it's only a few dollars higher (which often times is) by 
rebidding. If you don't outbid him on the second try no problem but you 
don't get that chance to know.<<<<

>>Michael Kersenbrock wrote: Just like a live auction where one doesn't 
know if the winner was at his maximum or if he had a long way to go 
before dropping out.<<

>>>>Someone: Difference is in "real" auctins, EVERYONE has a chance to 
bid at the end when they know the TRUE high bid. NOT the case with 
ebay.<<<<

>>Michael: All who are available to attend a live auction's end can bid, 
and all who are available at the end of an ebay auction can bid. What's 
the difference?  If anything the ebay auction even allows people who are 
NOT attending to bid as well! Ebay auctions seem more fair and "level" 
than live ones.<<

Just to put a spin on things, I've been told recently by an avid auction 
fan that you don't have to be present at a "live" auction, either. You 
can preview the items and put in a "max bid" with the autioneer. You 
will have a proxy bid made for you for that item. The disadvantage is 
that you won't be able to change your mind at the last minute if you 
really wanted the item because you couldn't be there to raise your bid 
(sound familiar?). Why are all last minute bids seen as sniping? What if 
someone logged on for the first time or after they had been away on 
vacation and saw an item that closed in two minutes and wanted to join 
in? Is that sniping just because they had not looked at the list 
earlier? A bid is a bid, no matter how close to the end it is submitted. 
No matter how you get there - you win some, you lose some; that's life. 
No one said it was going to be (your definition of) fair.

Andrea Blair
asblair@xxxxxxxxxxx

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