Then if someone bids at the last minute they have to bid more than you are willing to pay in order to beat you, they have no idea what that amount might be. Millions upon millions of eBay members understand how this works and I hope after this explanation you do as well, good luck in your buying endeavors on eBay.
When I really want something I always snipe it. Actually I pretty much snipe anything I want. I've only lost once and boy was I pist. Wanted to congratulate quick draw but couldn't. Well done quick draw, well done. If you bid your true not 1 penny more max whenever you chose to bid if you lose look at it as the other bidder overpaid.
Do not get emotionally involved in the idea of besting other bidders,do not let others determine how much you are willing to pay. You can bid at the last minute too you know-bid once w your true max as late as you feel comfortable.
You do not need to bid early to "introduce"yourself. That rule would be easy to skirt anyway. You just bid a nickel early on, and then proceed with your original intention to bid in the waning moments. You lost because you did not bid enough. Place your best bid and sit tight. Ebay only uses enough of that bid to keep you on top. Treat ebay as a sealed bid auction. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Sincerely, Mark. Comments 1. Rising Star. I totally agree with you!!! Accepted Solutions 0. Answers Comments 2. A bid is a bid, it doesn't matter when it happens so long as it falls in the necessary time frame. I won the most recent auction I participated in, Congratulations! Your actual bid was the highest bid entered. What was posted in this thread is just as relevant in as it was back in Comments 7. OP actually won I think the problem with people who complain about being outbid or in this case, causing the OP to win at a higher price, is that they do not understand that an auction is a competition.
And in a competition, you may lose to someone who is stronger, fast, smarter. Or if you win, their fierce determination to also win makes each competitor work harder to win. It's the same way in sports.
If you do not like the competition of an auction, search for Buy It Now only listings. I also from what littel I can see or now know of it find snipping to be at least slightly unethical and don't want to encourage this sort of behavior I'm guessing that you people that snipp don't see this as unethecial and that's fine, but to me it is-I'm not trying to start some sort of ethics debate. Can anyone recommend if there is such a thing as anti-snipping software????
Maybe something that would end my auctions at a random time during a given time range. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last minute bidding. Message 1 of All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic.
I almost always bid in the last 8 seconds. Message 2 of There's a certain thrill in sniping. Message 3 of Message 4 of Watching has very little relationship to Bidding. Message 5 of OP, When you bid at the last minute, it accomplishes several things: 1 it prevents you from getting caught up in a bidding frenzy and overpaying 2 it does not give the person you outbid the chance to reconsider and bid a higher amount 3 it does not "tie your hands" for the duration of the auction, and lets you look around for better deals People will not bid early unless they see an advantage to it, and the only advantage to bidding early is that it breaks a tie if two people bid exactly the same amount.
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Updated on September 05, Your Privacy Rights. So maybe if this trend continues, auctioned items will be easier to buy! Great advice! Im currently on Ebay and theres 4 days till the auction ends. Great article, but a little note. Sniping doesn't matter which auction site: Howrse is similar to eBay I imagine doesn't work for those on dial-up because by the time you 'swoop' in, the auction is probably going to end, no matter how much time you allow for the page to load.
The only problem with watching an item with the intention of sniping right at the end is that sometimes sellers end the auction early and you can miss out on an item you really wanted. This is usually because 1 The seller gets impatient and worried if their item is not making as much money as they expect for it. So another thing you can do if you really want an item is message the seller yourself and make an offer.
If the seller accepts your offer then great, you have your item! And if they reject it and tell you they will let the auction run then you can just wait and snipe! I've never tried selling or buying on Ebay before but it's good to know more on bidding.
Great hub. I love your last point. That's when the mad frenzy of bids just keep coming.. If you bid a higher amount of money in the last 10 seconds how come that you don't pay the exact amount of money you bid but ending up paying less as a winning bidder which is really a good deal?
Thank you so much for this information! GREAT idea to buy something in less price. MacGruber, I'm sure there is some shill bidding that takes place, but most savvy Ebay bidders always bid last minute manually or use a sniping program to do it for them.
I was suspecting the sellers were doing a last second bid using a different I. P because they were unhappy with the current price of 99 cents. Guess that was just far-fetched. Many people are intimidated by eBay when they are new, so this is the perfect tool to help them out.
Now with the other window just watch the time tick down and wait until about 6 seconds or so before the auction ends and grap a win at the last possible min. If you have a slower connection just be carefull to not leave it too late for the page to send data back to the server! When I was using Ebay regularly I won tons of auctions using it. Yeah another thing you can do is add some cents to it incase someone bids the same amout. Should help. Yea you are totally right. I've lost items before because i was either not logged in lol or because my reminder on my phone would come up and i will snooze it for an extra 4 mins and forgot about it.
I also loose all the time because i was to cheap to bring my maximum bid 10 bucks extra like you said and then at then end i would realize the person beat me by a. My strategy is similar to your actually but the only difference is i use a time to keep up with the bid clock.
I will leave the bid page on in the browser with my maximum bid and just leave it sit there while i monitor it in my other computer and see what the bids are and, it sort of give me and estimate of how much extra to add to win. Most seller would send me messages saying i was wrong for doing so but honestly who wants to pay extra. That's how I do it, win an ebay auction, exactly how you describe it, starting at around 50 seconds before it ends.
I thought that was the only way how you can win an auction. All the auctions where I put a bid earlier, a few days or so before the end of the auction, I always lost the auction.
The only ones which I won, were the ones where I placed my bid in the last minute. But I still have the feeling that I often paid way too much for the item, despite bidding in the last minute.
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