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<p>[QUOTE="mark_h, post: 934897, member: 3726"]Finally - someone that does it my way. Even though I occasion I do try to get my max bid in with about 8 seconds to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing to keep in mind. If you bid 49.99 and that is as high as you want to go - you might(but not often) get a second chance offer on the coin. There was one large cent I wanted - put my max bid in, saw the reserve was not met, said oh well and just moved on. It was like nobody else wanted to bid. It was one of those ones starting at like $275 and my max bid was 305. The reserve was 350(something like that per seller). The seller let me have it at $275 - I could not pay him quick enough. Won a couple of coins this way. By the way the prices I mention are not exact. So even with reserves I still enter my max bid and let it go. I have rejected a couple of second chance offers where the reserver was higher than I was willing to pay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mark_h, post: 934897, member: 3726"]Finally - someone that does it my way. Even though I occasion I do try to get my max bid in with about 8 seconds to go. The other thing to keep in mind. If you bid 49.99 and that is as high as you want to go - you might(but not often) get a second chance offer on the coin. There was one large cent I wanted - put my max bid in, saw the reserve was not met, said oh well and just moved on. It was like nobody else wanted to bid. It was one of those ones starting at like $275 and my max bid was 305. The reserve was 350(something like that per seller). The seller let me have it at $275 - I could not pay him quick enough. Won a couple of coins this way. By the way the prices I mention are not exact. So even with reserves I still enter my max bid and let it go. I have rejected a couple of second chance offers where the reserver was higher than I was willing to pay.[/QUOTE]
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