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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 2:35 pm
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Originally Posted by BEAV
How can one find out the amount a winning bid will require without actually buying the room? I assume the OP is just doing research at this point, while the customer is the one who later does the actual bidding (based on the OP's advice). Or am I missing something here???
It was speculated somewhere (perhaps on the FW thread, don't remember) that coolwulf uses a method similar to using dummy credit card numbers to put in lowball bids until getting an acceptance. This works because PL doesn't charge your CC (or attempt to) until you actually get an acceptance.

I can't imagine this is legal, but I know it's against PL's own rules.
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