What Nick is is absolutely right. It's called a second price auction. To put it another way the winning bid is determined as the second highest bid + a smallish set increment determined by EBay.

My strategy is to snipe with a bid that equals the maximum price I'm prepared to pay for an item. If someone has a higher (unknown to me) bid than mine at the end, then good luck to them and bad luck to me.

There are some that treat the Ebay auction like a regular auction and seek to outbid one another in a leapfrog fashion much to the delight of the seller I'm sure.

Webbo

Sad to hear that Dave Greenslade of Colosseum and, of course, his own band Greenslade has passed away.

Still 45 minutes to play. C'mon Curaçao!

Oh, I jinxed it. Shame.

Quote from: weave on Yesterday at 06:33:36 PMI knew drinking Blue Curacao all day would reap it's rewards!!! 

Still got a hour to go and I might have to go to hospital but come on everyone, lighten up and enjoy the football, please.

 

I got Curaçao in the sweepstake at work. 


BTW, Mods: Didn't there used to be a "Spoiler" formatting button?

I knew drinking Blue Curacao all day would reap it's rewards!!! 

Still got a hour to go and I might have to go to hospital but come on everyone, lighten up and enjoy the football, please.

 

Quote from: EtchedPixels on Yesterday at 01:31:07 PM... old Minitrix ones. They go round 7" curves and up and down grades fine except for the ivatt 

The 2-6-2T is ok as that has weight in the side tanks.  It's the 2-6-0 tender loco which struggles: it's too lightweight, the traction tyres don't really add much benefit and the tender pickups need very careful pressure adjustment to minimise drag.   The German 2-6-0 with the same chassis is the same, I've had 2 or 3 over them over the decades and all got consigned to the parts bin.

Quote from: Steven B on Yesterday at 11:19:21 AMHow does real life US firefighting compare to what we see in the likes of Station 19 and Chicago Fire?

 

Most of us hate those shows.   

Actually most of the things they depict are realistic-ish, it's just the compression. They are making a show so they are squeezing a month of runs, fires, drama into one episode.
Yes; firefighters love drama  and we talk (changed by forum) constantly but a lot of our lives at the station would be too boring for TV: training, drills, inspecting businesses, testing fire hydrants, talking to kids/schools, eating, working out, playing cards.

We get paid for the giant "what if" and the fact that it comes unexpectedly any time of the day or night. Our true hazard isn't fires or disasters, it's the "coiled spring" affect of being on high-alert for 48 hours and sleep deprivation. Those are the true killers, which is why health and fitness has come to be emphasized lately.


Good question though!
*Caveat - Busy districts in big cities might have a higher volume of dramatic calls, but then their station density will be greater.

Interesting. Noticed that too with Minitrix Ivatt!

I've not had trouble with 3% grades except with very draggy wagons, stuff that was overweight (eg the Dapol tesco train), or very light locos. Mostly things that could be addressed with some weights or adjustment of whatever caused the drag.

Steam is also much less of a problem because you can bank or double head stuff up any reasonable grade without worrying about rule 1, whereas diesel banking was much less common.

Or just run old Minitrix ones. They go round 7" curves and up and down grades fine except for the ivatt