Herr Carlston,
I'll be travelling on Tuesday (and be with a client acting as a witness in a white collar fraud case) when this auction expires and bidding via a Blackberry doesn't really work, so you allowing, this is how we do it: I'll send you an email with an amount x, you add that to however high your threshold is (George's threshold + Uwe's amount = final bid). That way you will get the bass for sure. Once you've won the auction:
- you may opt for the bass if the price is right, or
- play the bass first and see if you like it and then decide whether to keep it (even if the price exceeds your initial threshold, but you've fallen in love with the thing), or
- immediately decide that the bass is supposed to be "assigned" to me.
You've got mail!
Uwe