quote:Surely if ka02230 was reacting to previous bids she/he would NOT have bid such an odd amount?
Perhaps kao has been following the advice of this forum to always bid odd amounts. Perhaps kao knew that with 56 seconds left in the auction, they had plenty of time to key in any amount they wanted (which may have delayed them enough to prevent them from placing a 3rd snipe). Perhaps in the heat of battle they made a typo.
If cable’s snipe had not been placed as early (or had been placed a few seconds later), then when kao’s $21.86 bid was placed, kao would have received a message stating they were the high bidder at $18.50 (trap’s $18 + $.50 increment). Instead, when kao’s bid was placed, they were immediately (like right away and they didn’t even have to have another window open refreshing like a crazy person “without a life”) told they were NOT the high bidder. SO, kao not being a particularly quick-witted person, AND not all that dexterous, AND perhaps with a slow Internet connection, took around 30 seconds to decide how much to bid and to key in the bid and then a handful of tic-tocks for the bid to be recorded by ebay.
To extend on that logic – why not just skip sniping and place a proxy bid? After all, as long as you win the auction for less than or equal to your nibbled-up proxy bid, then no reason to complain.quote:Still cablejelly8 won for less than or equal to their max so no reason to complain!
Let me try saying it differently – nibbling and/or a bidding war is still nibbling and/or a bidding war if it takes place 1 day, or 1 hour, or 1 minute before the end of the auction.
Just because one is willing to pay $x doesn’t mean one isn’t more willing to pay $x minus $y.
And, extending this “logic” a little further, why would one be concerned about a shill bidder? After all, all the shill bidder does is to give the winning bidder a better opportunity to realize their full potential.