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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1553866, member: 26302"]But its not. An intelligent bidder who currently snipes would look at this change and realize now its back to the way it was before sniping. Someone can increase their bid by a single increment just to claw their way up and find out your max. Why they bid that way I haven't a clue, but many do. If they changed Ebay that way I believe I would simply walk away from the entire process. Sniping good deals is the way I play, I do not want to get tangled in a drawn out affair, (another reason I never go to live auctions anymore), and under such a system I wouldn't feel justified spending any time even looking at Ebay any longer. As it is sometimes I can go a couple weeks without finding any quality worth bidding on, (much of the quality is now overpriced BIN auctions for ancients at least), and if I knew my max bid would be easily findable by a determined bidder I simply would not put in the effort any more. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are other places to buy coins, and not have to wade through the schlock, dreck, fakes, and imaginery priced items for me to also have to worry about my bid price being discoverable. I am not trying to make this sound like "I would pick up my ball and go home", kind of post, but in the end Ebay would have lost its one advantage in my eyes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1553866, member: 26302"]But its not. An intelligent bidder who currently snipes would look at this change and realize now its back to the way it was before sniping. Someone can increase their bid by a single increment just to claw their way up and find out your max. Why they bid that way I haven't a clue, but many do. If they changed Ebay that way I believe I would simply walk away from the entire process. Sniping good deals is the way I play, I do not want to get tangled in a drawn out affair, (another reason I never go to live auctions anymore), and under such a system I wouldn't feel justified spending any time even looking at Ebay any longer. As it is sometimes I can go a couple weeks without finding any quality worth bidding on, (much of the quality is now overpriced BIN auctions for ancients at least), and if I knew my max bid would be easily findable by a determined bidder I simply would not put in the effort any more. There are other places to buy coins, and not have to wade through the schlock, dreck, fakes, and imaginery priced items for me to also have to worry about my bid price being discoverable. I am not trying to make this sound like "I would pick up my ball and go home", kind of post, but in the end Ebay would have lost its one advantage in my eyes. Just my opinion. Chris[/QUOTE]
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