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Re: variac via E-bay
Potential E-bay bidders,
What is likely to be happening is that your competitors are using special
software programs which automatically submit bids at the last possible
second. If you browse around the web, and I think in the software section
of E-bay, you can find sources for these programs to use yourself. Fight
fire with fire!
--Steve
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From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: variac
> Original Poster: "Charles Arruda" <carruda-at-channelseek-dot-com>
>
> With Ebay, put in your maximum bid and try to be there a few minutes
before it
> ends to make sure you get it. If you don't, 6 out of 10 times you will
lose it
> to the last 5 people that bid on it before you did. But remember, you can
> always pay retail and get what you need to complete your project (even if
its
> more expensive). I had to do that on wire, after the same thing happened
to me
> on Ebay 3 times in a row... got the wire in a smaller quantity (the amount
I
> needed), but paid a bit more for it.
>
> C=
>
> Tesla List wrote:
>
> > Original Poster: "Kelly Shutt" <tcatut-at-mail.utexas.edu>
> >
> > well, I'm starting to get really peeved at ebay... I've been bidding on
> > variacs for a couple weeks now... and every time some idiot ends up
bidding
> > twice what the thing is worth and outbidding me... and i had a good bid
on a
> > nice 8lb spool of wire and someone outbid me 5 minutes before it was
over...
> > anyways, on to the point... I'm not having much luck procuring a variac,
and
> > i was wondering if anyone knew a good source or maybe had one that they
> > could sell to me.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Kelly
>
>
>