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Subject: Re: OT optimal bidding strategy for ebay style auctions

Author: K. Burcham

Date: 06:55:52 02/03/04

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On February 03, 2004 at 04:24:00, Jonas Bylund wrote:

>On February 02, 2004 at 19:45:37, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>
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>>>then you could bid $2000 up front and let ebay be your "proxy" bidder.
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>>Now I get it. thanks.
>>so the max bid that was put in before my first bid, was way higher than my 12
>>bids. I see, so the software raised the current bid just enough to exceed mine.
>>I kept raising my bid by 5.00 and the server immediately responded my bid was
>>too low. makes sense now.
>>
>>kburcham
>
>That's good to hear, took a while, but you got it...
>
>Jonas

Thanks for help Jonas.
at 51 some things have slowed just a little.
maybe a reboot would help.
aggravating bidding first time at E-bay.
best to you.

kburcham



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