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<p>[QUOTE="gronnh20, post: 3084473, member: 73224"]I have had to do that also. How else can you warn the buying public about them? With some of the sellers, a buyer has to wait 7 days to leave negative feedback. For one what does a seven day wait do? Secondly, it gives the seller another week of mayhem and destruction. Unfortunately one has to look for the positive to find the negative on E-Bay. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have done the incremental bidding before on inexpensive coins. The increments were so small a max bid was pointless. Even then it was no more than three increments and I either won or was no longer a buyer. With more expensive coins I will have a maximum amount I would pay for the coin. If someone shilled the bid up to my max amount and I still won the coin, I am a happy camper. Would I be happier at paying a lower amount than my max? Well, yes, and that also happens, sometimes. Either way my goal is accomplished. I secured the coin on my terms and the seller's. </p><p> </p><p>I don't think there are really any strategies to bidding. The only winning strategy is to pay more for the item than anyone else is willing to. This isn't poker. I promise if you bid $1,000,000.00 on almost every coin in an auction you will win 99% of the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gronnh20, post: 3084473, member: 73224"]I have had to do that also. How else can you warn the buying public about them? With some of the sellers, a buyer has to wait 7 days to leave negative feedback. For one what does a seven day wait do? Secondly, it gives the seller another week of mayhem and destruction. Unfortunately one has to look for the positive to find the negative on E-Bay. I have done the incremental bidding before on inexpensive coins. The increments were so small a max bid was pointless. Even then it was no more than three increments and I either won or was no longer a buyer. With more expensive coins I will have a maximum amount I would pay for the coin. If someone shilled the bid up to my max amount and I still won the coin, I am a happy camper. Would I be happier at paying a lower amount than my max? Well, yes, and that also happens, sometimes. Either way my goal is accomplished. I secured the coin on my terms and the seller's. I don't think there are really any strategies to bidding. The only winning strategy is to pay more for the item than anyone else is willing to. This isn't poker. I promise if you bid $1,000,000.00 on almost every coin in an auction you will win 99% of the time.[/QUOTE]
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