[rescue] SparcCenter 2000E on Ebay

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net> wrote:

> I've given up buying anything on eBay except for Buy It Now,
> because I'm sick of getting sniped in the last fifteen seconds
> by some asshole with an auction-sniping program and a cable
> modem when there's no time to respond.  eBay these days is He
> With The Lowest Latency Wins.

Latency envy?

All you need to do is bid JIT, and bid high - that way if you don't get
it, at least the buyer is paying top-dollar. I pretty much always get
what I want off eBay, but I tend to bid about 5% more than I think an
item is worth, if I really want it. Then, if someone else gets it, its
OK, cause it went for more than I thought it was worth...

The jerks I hate are the ones who see an item with a $15.95 BIN price,
and an opening bid of $12.95 - then some fool bids $12.95 5 days before
the auction ends and tries to save $3, then it goes for $25-30 at the
end. The fool was so focused on saving the $3 they lost the item! (it
annoys me because the BIN price was a good deal, but now it's gone...)

Anyway,


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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