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In Reply to: RE: Why? posted by Phil D on March 31, 2008 at 21:40:53
Several possible reasons:
The bidder has more then 100 items on his watch list and wants to keep track of it. The bidder isn't willing to pay $77. The bidder is a botton feeder and lowballs everything he bids on and sometimes they win the auction. Then there are those who just want to see the but-it-now go away in the hope that no one snap it up on inpulse or will bid the item up that high. On the other side of the coin you invited the low bid with your $9.95 opening price. Why did you do that? Why not just open it at say $75 with a $77 buy-it-now? Anything that's offered at a lowball price will almost always get a lowball bid. Ultimately market value will usually prevail.
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