i am bidding on a amiga 1200

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

Don't fall for many Greedbayer's "cashing-in" schemes and only pay reasonably.

[demolition]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

I always bid at the last minute, most people do. These days I'm convinced most early bids are shill bids anyway, anything I list on auction only gets bids at the last moment.

This is one of the problems with bidding on ebay. They should extend the closing time for every late bid, e.g. so it will not end for at least half an hour after the last bid.

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Originally Posted by demolition

This is one of the problems with bidding on ebay. They should extend the closing time for every late bid, e.g. so it will not end for at least half an hour after the last bid.

that doesent really make any sense if its already been on for 9 days.it has to end at the time it says it does.
other wise it would be open forever.

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Originally Posted by roy bates

that doesent really make any sense if its already been on for 9 days.it has to end at the time it says it does.
other wise it would be open forever.

No, because there is a limit as to how much people will pay.
A real auction will also go on as long as people bid, and I'm sure the seller won't mind the auction extending if it means more bids.

A Danish auction site (now owned by ebay) used this method some time ago, and I think it worked great.

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Originally Posted by demolition

No, because there is a limit as to how much people will pay.
A real auction will also go on as long as people bid, and I'm sure the seller won't mind the auction extending if it means more bids.

A Danish auction site (now owned by ebay) used this method some time ago, and I think it worked great.

sorry yes,thats what i was thinking.
but then youll have peaple bidding like nutters for stuff thats not really worth all that much(panic bidding),i think its a bad idea.

say for instance it turns into a trend and machines start going for riculous amounts of money(not that it isent already,but it has a limited time on bids) other peaple will be saying oh ive seen this item go for #### amount and use that as a scale to wich to gauge interest.it would be insane.
sure, its an extreme.but if you think about it,its already the case at the moment with ebay sellers qouting other sales as reference.
sure,it would be good for peaple selling,but buying?

its already silly with peaple putting L@@K RARE and CLASSIC RETRO ITEM for sale all over the place.

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Originally Posted by roy bates

sorry yes,thats what i was thinking.
but then youll have peaple bidding like nutters for stuff thats not really worth all that much,i think its a bad idea.

I don't really see the problem with that. Nobody is forcing you to bid. If things are too expensive, then don't buy it. But realistically I don't think it will increase the prices in general. It might just level them out and make it harder to score a good A1200 for say £30 as some people have. It would make me more confident to put things up for sale without risking having to let it go for nothing just because someone got lucky to snipe the auction in the last second.

Edit: Also, many auctions are put up by people who actually make money buying and selling stuff on ebay. I wouldn't mind them going out of business.

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Originally Posted by demolition

I don't really see the problem with that. Nobody is forcing you to bid. If things are too expensive, then don't buy it. But realistically I don't think it will increase the prices in general. It might just level them out and make it harder to score a good A1200 for say £30 as some people have. It would make me more confident to put things up for sale without risking having to let it go for nothing just because someone got lucky to snipe the auction in the last second.

Edit: Also, many auctions are put up by people who actually make money buying and selling stuff on ebay. I wouldn't mind them going out of business.

true,it would simply reach a saturation point.

yes,i wouldnt mind if some of the sellers disapeared.

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Normal auctions dont run for nine days so the logic of extending the auction every time someone bids isnt really a valid argument in my opinion.