From: krw on
On Tue, 25 May 2010 00:17:52 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>Glenn Gundlach wrote:
>>
>> On May 23, 10:12 am, Winfield Hill <Winfield_mem...(a)newsguy.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Archimedes' Lever wrote...
>> >
>> > >On 23 May 2010 03:35:49 -0700, Winfield Hill
>> > ><Winfield_mem...(a)newsguy.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >>Glenn Gundlach wrote...
>> >
>> > >>> Yesterday I missed out on a Metcal soldering iron by the bid
>> increment
>> > >>> of $1. I eSniped it 6 seconds before the end but the winner
>> came in 2
>> > >>> seconds before. I don't know if he outbid me by $1.01 or $1000
>> because
>> > >>> the bid increment was $1 but I don't care. There are more and
>> I'll get
>> > >>> one of them at my price. So will you.
>> >
>> > >> I've been outbid for the last six in a row. I only succeeded
>> > >> in winning a defective one, wow the prices are high right now!
>> >
>> > > Buying a used metcal is a stupid move.
>>
>> Perhaps for you but not for all. But aren't you AlwaysWrong?
>
>
> No, he isn't. He is one of the authors of 'The Art of Electronics'.

Actually, he was responding to DimBulb but hijacked Win's post. Count the
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