I think the strategy you adopt depends on whether you very much want a specific thing, or are trawling a general category for interesting stuff. Almost everything I've bought on eBay has been in the latter case, and I've just bid in a vaguely interested way, quite happy to be outbid if it goes over my (usually quite penny-pinching) maximum - lots of low-concern items rather than a few must-haves. I've been sufficiently successful at this that I've saturated my needs for trashy martial arts films and pretty jewellery ...
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Date: 2004-06-18 02:33 am (UTC)Well, _nearly_ saturated ;)