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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7875628, member: 120820&quot;]Let&#039;s consider what the alternative outcomes are if you instead *live* bid 500 rather than pre-bid:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) You win coin for &lt;= 500</p><p>2) Coin sells for <u>exactly</u> 500 to someone else&#039;s pre-bid (early bid takes precedence)</p><p>3) Coin sells for more than your max of 500</p><p><br /></p><p>Your &quot;positioning/early&quot; pre-bid strategy is only a winning tactic in the narrow case 2). In the broader case 1) it&#039;s a losing strategy in the event of shill bidding. and in case 3) it makes no difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re really trying to avoid losing the coin for 500+1 increment, I&#039;d just live bid; you may get lucky and win for &lt; 500, or if it does reach exactly 500 you still have the option of going one increment higher.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even in that situation, if you think your bid does have a small chance of winning, then why not still give it the benefit of treating it as a &quot;real bid&quot; and not pre-bid unless you have to? I suppose it could make sense if you think your chance of winning is so small that it&#039;s not worth the inconvenience of live bidding, and you really just want to avoid the annoyance of seeing it go for less![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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