E-Bay user's i need your help

[heliopilot]

help ... there are 2 products i need/want on E-Bay. How do i stack the deck in my favor? do i wait until the last few minutes of the auction and just big high? i dont really want to drive the bidding up early and have it get ugly... All help and suggestions are welcome. thank you

 

[fest3er]

Originally posted by heliopilot
help ... there are 2 products i need/want on E-Bay. How do i stack the deck in my favor? do i wait until the last few minutes of the auction and just big high? i dont really want to drive the bidding up early and have it get ugly... All help and suggestions are welcome. thank you

Show *no* interest in the item(s). Watch the time and the bids and in the last 30 seconds or so of the auction, place your bid as high as you are willing to pay. If you have a fast net connection, you might even be able to wait 'til the at 15 seconds or so.

Have a bid window ready to go, and watch the bidding in another window. When the time comes, click the submit button.

 

[JR2]

I used to try to jump in in the last 20 seconds and win but it got real annoying and it still does not mean somone will not beat you out. What I have started doing is just going in and putting my max bid in when I find somthing and living with the results. This has worked for me a number of times as Ebay will up your bid as others try to outbid you untill it reaches your max. .



JR2

 

[Lnwing]

There are sniping services and software available to place bids at the last second. Do a web search on sniping and you'll find that some people swear by it, some at it.

 

[gitchesum]

I like the challenge of last minute bidding.



I bid on my last item with 4 seconds left. I won. Oo.

I got the item at $90 under retail price.



Some folks use software, some folks just bid as high as they want to spend on the product.

If it's something I'm not to concerned about winning, I simply bid the highest amout of money I am willing to spend on the product.

 

[Extreme1]

I hate it when the item that I (or anyone else) shows any interest in goes for retail in the 30 seconds!!

 

[lmills]

I make sure I am signed in ahead of time and bid in the last 30 seconds. I bid what I feel comfortable with and if I get beat out, oh well. I will look for a similar item. It is funny watching some people getting caught up in the game and not knowing when to stop. I have seen plenty of auctions for used items end with a price that would buy the item new. Some people just get too wrapped up in it.

 

[TowPro]

Re: Re: E-Bay user's i need your help

What you do is use the bid I think Ebay calls a Proxy Bid.



With a Proxy bid you bid as high as you feel you want to spend.

If say the auction is at 10. 00, but you will spend up to 50, enter 50, and ebay will raise the auction up to 11. 00. Now if somebody bids 12. 00, your Proxy bid will take over and raise your bid up to 13. 00, and so on, until the bid goes above your 50. 00, at that point they out bid your proxy bid.

 

[cap-n-cray]

Odd Amount

Use a odd amount when sniping or bidding. My wife won an auction in the last 20 seconds by . 01 cent. I use $XX. 51. Only bid what you want to pay. Watch an item for a day or two and bid if no one has bid yet. This will prevent the seller from ending the auction early because a lack of bids. I have had this happen to me. I always then bid the price I am willing to pay in the last minute.



Cary

 

[WadePatton]

I just got beat last night. Watched the item for 3 days. Got in too sure and bid 3 minutes before end. Didn't know I was beat until it was over.



Never bid before last minute is my new rule.



And watch for "Buy It Now". Sometimes it's better to pay the extra $ to get it than to get sniped.

 

[JR2]

Ya I got beat in the last minute on somthing yesterday... . so I bid on another one just like it... if I loose that one there is still one more... might have to do the last min bid on that one.

 

[TowPro]

I have sold several things over Ebay, every time somebody does this at the end of the auction.



Anybody that has been to a REAL auction knows that as he's counting "gone once, gone twice" you can up the bid and he will ask for other bids.



I have emailed Ebay several times with the sugustion "if somebody places a bid on an item with less then 5 minutes left, let the auction run for an additional 5 minutes after the last bid. Even if the bidding keeps getting extended by 5 minutes several times, it's ok, Ebay will be making more money.



I would pay more for my auctions to have this option!



But until everybody starts telling ebay thats how they want it, there going to keep using the old way.



I was selling an HR-2510, the guy had emailed me several times with questions, he bid it up several times over a couple days, but at the last second somebody out bid him by a couple $. They started fighting over email. I told them "I don't care which one of you buy it, as long as I get paid the highest bid". The last guy gave in and let the guy who had been emailing me buy it.