Wish I knew why......

[Effy]

Fact is that a buyer can not always be present behind his computer when the auction is ending. Some people have to be at work, others live at the other side of the world with different hours. Sometimes I place my bid hours before the end before I go to work or before I go to bed and sometimes I do win :-)  But these are most of the time less important things, certainly not a DKB memory board  :lol:

Multiview : if you want a ethernetboard then get yourself a brandnew Xsurf3 with built in IDE controller !! For a Picasso IV, maybe you end up cheaper getting a Prometheus and a Voodoo3 pci and while you´re at it even a RTL8029 network and Fortemedia soundcard  :-? It´s a different approach but it´s a lot cheaper !!!

gizmo350 : I agree totally that sniping is the best thing to get the lowest price  :lol: You plan your own maximum bid and you don´t have to wait and sit behind your computer and hoping the server won´t slow down so your manually entered bid would be "too late"  :lol:  

[Effy]

Animagic : true, if you bid 10 minutes after the auction has started then you don´t have much chance that you´re gonna win, unless your bid is really high ...

Orange : I don´t mind snipers, I see them often enough at my own auctions ...

[Effy]

Animagic : no, let´s stay in this topic. What Orange means by "sniper" is an online program that does the bidding for you and you can adjust the settings so it can even place the bid in the last 5 seconds so nobody else can have time to place a higher bid. That is a sniper, not a person but a program, not on your computer but on the net, no matter if you have an Amiga or PC or Mac or whatever.