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Old 11-29-2010, 05:34 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by lagcam View Post
Yes and yes, so reality is that unless you are dealing with a big site with plenty of real customers, you are unlikely to be successful at anything other than spending money on bids.
That may be. I think a lot of it has to to with what you are bidding on as well. Obviously something like an iPad or a 50" big screen will attract a ton of bidders, but I read an article a little while back about a woman who used these sites to get gift cards. In many of the auctions she would win a $50 gift card for around $6-$8 (that includes the winning price and the cost of her bids. She said she ended up with about $2,000 worth of gift cards and only paid about $300 for them all. So she was going to use them to give as gifts and also use them to buy a ton of stuff for Christmas presents and save herself a ton of money.
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