[meteorite-list] Fw: The Sniper Mentality

From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:59:04 EDT
Message-ID: <219df.22e81317.38d3e008_at_aol.com>

Years ago when I was still selling on Ebay, I had an interesting insight in
the sniper mentality.
 
The auction was for a Tatahouine, about 4-5 grams, very nice but not
exceptional. With minutes to go, two guys got into a sniping war, I don't know if
they were using a software or sitting in front of their computers but the
batlle raged with bids coming in every couple seconds. And when it was over,
the "winner" had just paid triple what a similar Tatahouine was priced at on
my website.
I admit that I had a good laugh on that!.
 
Anne M. Black
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In a message dated 3/18/2010 1:34:37 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
lintonius at earthlink.net writes:
Yeah Mike, that's nice.
But more often than not, ebay tells me the item went for $1 over my max.
I don't particularly like the tactic of sniping,
but hey... if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Linton
Received on Thu 18 Mar 2010 03:59:04 PM PDT