Tuesday Rant

C'mon, for the life of me, I could never fathom anyone who is genuinely interested in a piece of ebay junk would bid on it days before the auction closes. It serves no purpose except to jack up the price. If you want to pay more, sure bid early and bid often. The seller should thank all those idiots who bid early and often.

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And what's the deal of giving low ball offer? I say go for it. As a buyer, what do you have to lose? The worse case scenario is your low ball offer would get rejected and ridiculed by the seller. In that case, move on or bid higher. If the seller doesn't like low ball offer at all, he could have just listed it as buy it now instead of adding the "or best offer." So I say make good use of the OBO option because low ball or not can sometimes a matter of perspective.