Your buying strategies consist of arming yourself
with information you need to know??”about yourself and your
own purchasing tendencies??”and whether you are bidding or
paying a fixed price. You need to know about the seller and
his or her past history and feedback status. The competition
you encounter during bidding is certainly a subject of concern,
as is how they typically bid on items. Of course, the product
and how you judge its worthiness are important areas you
want to investigate. First, you want to protect yourself against
buying an inappropriate or unsatisfactory product. (Protecting
yourself against actual fraud or dishonesty is covered in
Chapter 9.)
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Protect Yourself (Buyer Precautions)
Your first task is to protect yourself by learning all you can about what it is you
want to bid on, as well as about the person selling it. A second task is to protect
yourself against spending your hard-earned money on something you don??™t
want. You can be buying the wrong item because you don??™t know it or because
you are carried away in the auction momentum, valuing the game more than
the thing you are buying. Either way, you??™ll end up feeling dissatisfied with
your purchase.
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