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

[Tom McGinnis]

### When I looked (a couple of hours ago already), the $95 bid was alone -- no one near it -- so even though this person had 307 eBay purchases under their belt, they still didn't know enough to not jump to such a high price immediately. 


--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Linda Patton <lpatton at fsu.edu> wrote:

> From: Linda Patton <lpatton at fsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] "Walking North" -- original edition on eBay
> To: "AT -L" <at-l at backcountry.net>
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:42 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> > The way ebay works is that the previous bid of $25 was
> probably 
> > backed by a > hidden bid of near $90.  The $95 bid
> might have 
> > been quite a bit lower, but backed by a hidden bid of
> $95 or higher.  
> > That drove the bidding up.  In fact, if its a
> "real" collector, the $95
> > may be far lower than his/her hidden bid.  So it could
> go a lot higher.
> 
> That's right.  I forgot about that feature.  So all we
> know now is that 
> nobody *else* has put in a higher bid/hidden-bid than $95
> *so far*.
> 
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