Posted By:
David SmithBarry,
The way I see it the buyer is cheating. An example would be the uncatalogued J=K Candy (Flynn) card that ended early the other day. I don't have a lot of money to bid on cards but I thought that one was something that would be in my affordability range.
When I went to bed the night before, it was about $36 dollars. When I woke up and then left in the morning the price was the same. My plan was to come home later and bid $50 (not my maximum) but at least an increase to show the seller there was another person interested. However, when I came home, the auction had ended. To me, that is cheating.
If the listing had been a Fixed Price or Buy It Now type, then I wouldn't feel so bad because someone just beat me to it. However, an auction is an auction. All the cheater who won the card had to do was roll out of bed (naked for all I know), get a bowl of cereal, turn their computer on, find the card, contact the seller and then pay them. No real work and no real effort or sweating out the final minutes involved in a real auction.
David