Post by sl75 on Feb 26, 2016 15:06:58 GMT
And even that would not suite sl75. Let us say there is £1000 on SM and sl75 wants to buy £1000 but not anything below £800. If I arrive before him and buy £176.25, because that is what I happened to have, he will end up with £823.75. According to sl75's argument that would be untidy and he will object to it.
I'd classify loans in two basic types, "easy to buy" and "hard to buy". Supposing for sake of argument my target in a particular loan is £1000.
For an "easy to buy" loan, I'll happily take nothing at all if it's even a penny short of £1000, as another £1000 will be available to buy soon enough.
For a "hard to buy" loan, I've already got my time costs sunk (loading the page, dealing with the captcha, completing the form with the amount to buy, pressing submit, and completing this entire task before the amount available drops to zero), so I see no reason to turn down what may well be the only bite at the cherry I'll get for a while.
The way I deal with this is a bit like going fishing. I buy. I see what I receive and I sell back what I do not want, the whole part or a section of it. As one likes to say . . . simples.
Even for "easy to buy" loans, I don't see any reason to sell the "unwanted" undersize one until I've successfully caught one of the preferred size... but the hassle of selling back the unwanted undersize loans could be avoided if I could specify a "fill or kill" order.