nospam@home.com

Hi,

I am a newbie using Ebay so would be grateful if anyone would comment
whether the following is normal:

I am interested in an item on ebay that doesn't seem to have a reserve
price. It had a low first bid (99p) which was the winning bid for a
few days. Suddenly someone put a high next bid (£10.01). However if I
bid I just enter the maximum price and it only increments the actual
bid by a small amount.

My question is: Why/how would someone bid up by this much in one go?

Cheers,
M

TLSG

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:25:34 +0100, nospam@home.com proclaimed the
following:

>Hi,
>
>I am a newbie using Ebay so would be grateful if anyone would comment
>whether the following is normal:
>
>I am interested in an item on ebay that doesn't seem to have a reserve
>price. It had a low first bid (99p) which was the winning bid for a
>few days. Suddenly someone put a high next bid (£10.01). However if I
>bid I just enter the maximum price and it only increments the actual
>bid by a small amount.
>
>My question is: Why/how would someone bid up by this much in one go?

The seller, posing as a buyer ?

--
Klaatu

Dr Zoidberg

nospam@home.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie using Ebay so would be grateful if anyone would comment
> whether the following is normal:
>
> I am interested in an item on ebay that doesn't seem to have a reserve
> price. It had a low first bid (99p) which was the winning bid for a
> few days. Suddenly someone put a high next bid (£10.01). However if I
> bid I just enter the maximum price and it only increments the actual
> bid by a small amount.
>
> My question is: Why/how would someone bid up by this much in one go?
>
The first bidder had his maximum of just under a tenner , but where he is
the only bidder then the current bid will be the start price.

Bidder two comes along and sticks in a maximum of say 15 quid. His current
bid will jump up to the minimum needed to beat the previous high bidder , in
this case just over a tenner.


--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger"
"Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk
www.upce.org.uk

nospam@home.com

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:25:58 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
<AlexNOOOO!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote:

>nospam@home.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a newbie using Ebay so would be grateful if anyone would comment
>> whether the following is normal:
>>
>> I am interested in an item on ebay that doesn't seem to have a reserve
>> price. It had a low first bid (99p) which was the winning bid for a
>> few days. Suddenly someone put a high next bid (£10.01). However if I
>> bid I just enter the maximum price and it only increments the actual
>> bid by a small amount.
>>
>> My question is: Why/how would someone bid up by this much in one go?
>>
>The first bidder had his maximum of just under a tenner , but where he is
>the only bidder then the current bid will be the start price.
>
>Bidder two comes along and sticks in a maximum of say 15 quid. His current
>bid will jump up to the minimum needed to beat the previous high bidder , in
>this case just over a tenner.

Thanks for the info. I get it now :-)

M

Ben Blaney

Soylent Green wrote:

>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:09:07 +0300, Ben Blaney wrote:
>
>> Who are you anyway? Never seen you post before.
>
>You need to look outside the clique(tm) more often.

Alternatively you could try to be interesting.

--
Ben Blaney

mups

Ben Blaney <benblaney@ukrm.net> wrote:
> Soylent Green wrote:
>
> >You need to look outside the clique(tm) more often.
>
> Alternatively you could try to be interesting.

"Interesting Green", humm has a certain ring to it.

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CBR1000FL The Honda Fatblade
Yam RS200 Transcontinental Tourer

Whinging Courier

In uk.rec.motorcycles, mups said:

> "Interesting Green", humm has a certain ring to it.

Sounds like "purest green" that can be moulded and fashioned into
jewellery.

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Smile...tomorrow will be worse
CBR1000FL

steve auvache

Whinging Courier wrote
>In uk.rec.motorcycles, mups said:
>
>> "Interesting Green", humm has a certain ring to it.
>
>Sounds like "purest green" that can be moulded and fashioned into
>jewellery.

Someone has finally made enough Green to actually make jewelery?

--
steve auvache

Whinging Courier

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache said:

> Someone has finally made enough Green to actually make jewelery?

Yes, and it looks like a "lump of snot" :-)

--
Smile...tomorrow will be worse
CBR1000FL

Soylent Green

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:19:26 +0100, steve auvache wrote:

> Whinging Courier wrote
>>In uk.rec.motorcycles, mups said:
>>
>>> "Interesting Green", humm has a certain ring to it.
>>
>>Sounds like "purest green" that can be moulded and fashioned into
>>jewellery.
>
> Someone has finally made enough Green to actually make jewelery?

It was only a nugget - barely enough for a PA.

Soy

Soylent Green

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:45:07 +0300, Ben Blaney wrote:

>
> Alternatively you could try to be interesting.

Words we could all live by...

Soy