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Seriously though, regardless of the previous sale prices for an item, you should always start your bidding at 1 and increase in increments of 5 to ensure you don't overpay like the OP did here.
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You're probably being facetious, but in case you're not, following the advice above can be really, really tedious.
When you really want to buy something now, borrow some standard resource management ideas from computer science: Always increase your bid by some factor. Using a factor of two saves a great deal of fiddly bid posting, and you'll never do worse than pay twice the lowest asking price.
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Would you please buy the Armageddon I have listed for 125 million and change?
- Ping (@iltat, @Pinghole)
Don't take it personally if you think I was mean to you. I'm an ******* to everyone.
It's a penguin thing. Pingu FTW.
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Seriously though, regardless of the previous sale prices for an item, you should always start your bidding at 1 and increase in increments of 5 to ensure you don't overpay like the OP did here.
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You're probably being facetious, but in case you're not, following the advice above can be really, really tedious.
When you really want to buy something now, borrow some standard resource management ideas from computer science: Always increase your bid by some factor. Using a factor of two saves a great deal of fiddly bid posting, and you'll never do worse than pay twice the lowest asking price.