E-bay complaints: was Re: "Response" from seller with the "Apple-1"

[Steve Thatcher]

if you would set the starting price to what you wanted instead of trying to 
save money on listing fees, then you would not have to play games. You have 
decided to make life more difficult for you on eBay. It is not the late 
bidders or eBay that has the problem.

I have gone on eBay, done a new type of search, found and then bid on items 
that were down to their last minutes. You technique keeps people from 
finding the item at the last minute.

At 12:04 PM 07/04/2005, you wrote:
>One problem.....I have gotten so irritated by last minute bids....
>when after all I paid for 7 days of bids....that I now pull any item
>that does NOT have a bid at 6 Hours before the end (that misses you).
>I will also sometimes up the ante rather than pull the item, sometimes
>by 5X.  This is to discourage last minute bidders.  This really works
>if you put the bidders on notice in your description that you plan on
>doing this.  They, then, will decide wheather to "S*** or get off the
>pot" as we used to say at the poker table in the old days.