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Current bid is a steal.
82 FOOT NON-STANDARD BOAT - 82NS9705

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Check out the bidder history.

Bidder #9 totally has some program that is out-bidding Bidder #8


Bidder#9 (Current High Bid) 220,500 USD 04/29/2019 05:06:15 PM CT
Bidder#8 220,300 USD 04/29/2019 05:06:15 PM CT
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Unagi wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 12:47 pm Check out the bidder history.

Bidder #9 totally has some program that is out-bidding Bidder #8


Bidder#9 (Current High Bid) 220,500 USD 04/29/2019 05:06:15 PM CT
Bidder#8 220,300 USD 04/29/2019 05:06:15 PM CT
Have you ever used ebay?

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Unagi wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 12:47 pm Check out the bidder history.

Bidder #9 totally has some program that is out-bidding Bidder #8


Bidder#9 (Current High Bid) 220,500 USD 04/29/2019 05:06:15 PM CT
Bidder#8 220,300 USD 04/29/2019 05:06:15 PM CT
It may be auto bidding.

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Er, proxy bidding. Whatever it's called.
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OK, so I learned something today - but I'm still not sure I get what is going on.


Bidder #9 (privately) has a higher bid than #8 (but likely well above what we see as the bid), so now the current bid is a smidgeon higher than #8? via a Proxy Bid?
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yes, the bid history doesn't actually show the real history, it appears to only show the final effective bid for each bidder.

bidder #1 bids 1000.
bidder #2 bids $2000, proxy sets bid to prior max + increment (let's say $100), so $1100 is the public max bid.
bidder #3 bids $1500
based on bidder #2 max the proxy immediately bids $1600 for bidder#2, so $1600 is the public max bid.
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Unagi wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 12:58 pm OK, so I learned something today - but I still not sure I get what is going on.


Bidder #9 (privately) has a higher bid than #8 (but likely well above what we see as the bid), so now the current bid is a smidgeon higher than #8? via a Proxy Bid?
Correct. If you bid a max amount, say 500K, it will automatically bid the next increment on any subsequent bids under that amount.
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Looks like the winning bid was $225,500; similar to what a used Great Lakes fishing charter goes for, but somewhat larger and probably commensurately more expensive to run and maintain. But hey, from the looks of it, if you have a need to transport your SUV for some off-roading on a remote island, this is probably what you need.
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The second best day of the bidder's life...
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Jaymann wrote: Fri May 03, 2019 8:29 pm The second best day of the bidder's life...
:lol: Who's going to be the sap that buys it from them and gives them the best day of their life?

Or not. The price of a used fishing charter I got from a captain we used about 10-12 times over a 5 year or so span. He was a year from paying off the mortgage on it and retiring when he got killed working on the engines. Twin V-8s; I don't know the details but he did the engine work himself I imagine something failed and he dropped it on himself.

He told us a story once about a customer who wanted to charter him for a pleasure cruise to Chicago (he was out of Waukegan, 35-40 miles north). He told the customer that the cost would simply be prohibitive; he was better off taking a train into the city and chartering a boat there. He estimated the gas alone would have cost more than $500.

This reminds me though -- a former minion has a cabin cruiser out of New Buffalo, MI. I'll be camping near there this summer and he owes me a ride...
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