Re: Last HS SCSI Card sold for $260.00 on Ebay

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

Bruce Baker wrote in message <197_200007240850@juge.com>...
>Bev's right.  If you are going to highball, bid exactly what you are
willing to
>pay, no more.  Then if it gets there, you will not be upset.

Well, it isn't always that simple. Sometimes, in hind sight, I realize that
I could have payed more, and probably would have paid more if I had known in
advance... The truth is, that is what I usually do anyway -bid what I can
pay and hope for the best, and I have about a 60/40 average of winning the
bid.

The other problem is that, after building my collection, the only things
that I want are the same items that every other Apple II collector wants.
The same items that are bid up to high prices, like this HS SCSI card.

>
>But that is how shill bidding can work.  If someone has put up a bid such
as
>yours they can keep bidding the price up without haveing to worry about
getting
>the highest bid.

Yeah, it can be dangerous. There have been numerous times when I've bid up
an item, incrementally, just to see if I can win with my next bid, or the
next, and so on. Usually, I stop after it hits a ridiculous price -after my
brain wakes up again but then I feel sorry for the sucker who put the high
bid in (but not "real" sorry.)

>I know, how do they know?  I guess that is a bug in my thought process.

They probably don't know at first, like me but they figure it out.

>
>But I think my first thought needs repeating, just bid what you are willing
to
>pay and no more.  Then you cannot be shocked by a final price that you are
not
>willing to pay.
>
>Bruce