Second chance bidding...

"Gareth Hardy" <gareth@sentientsolutions.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:besotk$kd3$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
> We just got a "second chance offer" to buy a projector that we missed out
> on, because (as it turns out) the winning bidder welched out because (we
> think) he didn't read the VAT small print.
>
> If we hadn't already bought another projector, we would have taken him up
on
> the offer, but NOT at the second chance price. It was the abortive winning
> bidder who forced our price so high: If he hadn't bid at all, we would
have
> maxed out at £263. As it is, the second chance price was £314.15.
>
> Just a point worth remembering....
>


What amount did you enter as your maximum then? What was the original
highest bidder's amount to pay? I don't know how the bidding system works
with second chance offers.

Thanks,

Laura