[at-l] "Walking North" -- original edition on eBay

[Tom McGinnis]

If it said $95, then the bid was $95.

"Maximum bid" is for when you want the eBay machine to bid for you. So:
If the current bid was $25, and the increment was $1, the next acceptable bid would  be $26. The acceptable bid may not be sufficient if the current winning bidder had put in a maximum bid of $150 -- your $26 bid would simply raise his/her winning bid to that new, $26 amount. You would have to bid (as a single bid or as a maximum bid) at $150+increment -- I think it's $2.50 at that point -- to be the new winning bidder.

ebaysnipingtoe


--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] "Walking North" -- original edition on eBay
> To: "Linda Patton" <lpatton at fsu.edu>
> Cc: "AT -L" <at-l at backcountry.net>
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:28 PM
> Bids on eBay are by proxy. You put in your maximum bid and
> the current bid
> goes to the next increment. For example, if a prior bidder
> has entered a
> higher maximum bid than the one you submit and the
> increment is $5 the
> current bid jumps to $5 more than your maximum bid. If your
> bid was higher
> than the prior maximum then it goes to $5 higher than the
> previous high
> bidders maximum. The actual increment is determined by a
> ratio to the
> initial bid which is set by the seller. In this case the
> increment is only
> $1. If the current bid jumped from $25 directly to $95
> (which it did
> according to the bid history) the prior bidder must have
> submitted a maximum
> bid of $94.
> 
> Jim Bullard
> http://jims-ramblings.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Linda Patton
> <lpatton at fsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > > At $95 and (like the water in the Johnny Cash
> song)
> > > rising it is too rich for my wallet....
> > > Jim Bullard
> >
> > Someone--maybe a collector?--bid $95 after a previous
> > bid of just $25 !!  Maybe the bidding for the next
> copies
> > that are put up for auction will stay at a more
> reasonable
> > amount.  But if there are more 'collectors'
> out there, then
> > who knows?
> >
> > ~~ eArThworm
> >
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