At 10:15 30-1-2002 -0500, you wrote: >Subject: RE: "buy-it-now" or long auction. > >One tactic I have noticed people using recently: > >Take an auction with no reserve, starting at $1 and a buy-it-now of, say >$75. I have noticed a lot of people will put in a $1 bid to simply kill the >buy-it-now. I guess this is in the hope that they can get it at the auction >close for a lower price than the BIN. I dunno why this raises my ire >slightly, I know it's not against the rules it just seems a little >underhand... I guess it's more annoying to me when I might have wanted to do >the BIN but was beaten by somebody playing this game. > >Regards, >/\/\ick...
Yes, it annoys me no end too! BUT it sometimes has its up-side. A while back, I posted something with a BIN price and no reserve. Then along came someone and put a bid on it. By the end of the week it eventually fetched more than the BIN price. Wendy --- Wendy Beard Ottawa, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] home page http://www.beard-redfern.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
