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Post #21944 by midnite on Tue, Feb 4, 2003 3:44 PM

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My thoughts on the "end auction" and electronic sniping on Ebay are already documented. I don't understand this, however:

"as is the post-auction - "i forgot to bid - can i offer you less than your original bid price for the item?"

How is that unsporting or bad form...or "crappy"? I have seen many auctions that have a too high starting bid, and they received no bids. I have on many times emailed the seller and said,"If you take 'x' it's sold". That's business, very typical in live auctions wherein the auctioneer has to lower the bid to get things going...nothing bad about that at all.

midnite