Win to Bid Ratio

[Aloha_Mark]

In the good old days, ebay would list all the bidders (by user name) for an auction. Thus, you could compile short-term statistics on the number of wins vs. the number of bids, assuming that feedback was left for each auction. I think my slugging percentage is around 600 (six wins per every ten bids). Buy-it-now auctions make it easy to maintain a high batting average. On large ticket items, one or two surgical bids are all that I am interested in placing. During the course of an auction, it is good to know how committed a bidder is to winning. Without knowing his win : bid ratio, it is difficult to size up your competition. The work day is too busy to baby sit an auction, and perform your own last-minute bidding.

Of course, statistics are meaningless in estimating the impact of snipe - ing (especially the automated variety).

Now, the postmortem statistics of the buyer who won this auction are very suspicious:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-19...-Hollow-Electric-Guitar-Natural-/220964190061

This fellow has placed 28 bids in 30 days, and has a feedback score of only 1. What is that? A slugging percentage of 7.1? Oh, you have got to be kidding.