LOL I'd love to see Paula do that. The dollar shit is stupid, from a bidding pov: it only allows people to bid even more, because they think "oh, it's just one more dollar. I can do that." Plus it takes for-freakin'-ever. Too much suspense for my taste.
Smart bidders (like me ::buffs nails on shirt::) figure out what they can manage to spend on a piece, and bid up to that limit in 2-5 bids, preferably in $25-50.00 increments. That way it wastes no-one's time, the suspense is over with quickly for me, and if I don't win (people can frequently outbid me), I know I've made the winning bidder pay for the privilege of owning the item. Ebay's bidding system pisses me off, because there's no way around their minimal-incremental bidding system that I can figure out (mind you, I've not bid on much there).
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Date: 2006-09-13 03:53 pm (UTC)Smart bidders (like me ::buffs nails on shirt::) figure out what they can manage to spend on a piece, and bid up to that limit in 2-5 bids, preferably in $25-50.00 increments. That way it wastes no-one's time, the suspense is over with quickly for me, and if I don't win (people can frequently outbid me), I know I've made the winning bidder pay for the privilege of owning the item. Ebay's bidding system pisses me off, because there's no way around their minimal-incremental bidding system that I can figure out (mind you, I've not bid on much there).