Re: Follow up to buying photo equipment on ebay

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:32:11 -0600, Jack wrote:

I was the top bidder 4 separate times on Nikon lenses. Each time someone
outbid me at the last second by 2 dollars. Obviously they have either paid
someone to bid for them who has a computer program to do this or they have
such a program themselves. There is no way that a legitimate bidder could
come in at the last possible second and win without such a program. My
point is that ebay must know that this is going on and so the whole auction
is dishonest and rigged. I think that ebay could weed out programed bids
if they really wanted to. I will no longer attempt to bid on anything on
ebay.
If you look on ebay you will find that the items have a time remaining -
all it takes is to add remaing time on to existing and choose your time to
check and rebid.

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Neil
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