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Originally Posted by perezfan
Hey, congrats on your first post, and welcome to net54!
Your post was on the mark, as the uber-early bidding strategy is most likely a "marker" or just his way to "watch" an item. I really doubt that it's an earnest attempt to win anything. The particular "early-bid guy" in question doesn't place bids of a caliber that would ever win anything. So it must be his way of "watching" or some other odd motive.
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Yeah...It's definitely a marker of some kind but I disagree with those that say it's an effective way to watch an item if you seriously want to win it. I've bid on items and then forgot to put them in my watch list and missed out because of it. You don't get the 15 minute warning if it's not in your watch list.
Unless you've maxed out your watch list which I believe is 200 items, I don't see the point.
And that being said...I still haven't figured out how to bid within 56 seconds of an item being listed. That must be an ebay record.