Exactly the same, however, I missed out on something this morning because my mouse cursor was in the wrong place after the little "live" bid window refreshed...
I give myself a maximum I'm willing to buy the goods for and bid that when there's less than ten seconds left. If I lose, then it's because it went for more than I was willing to buy it for.
Sniper! and a few others. They were suposed to be banned once!I know there are ways of using a program to enter a bid at the very last moment - just dont use them...
................ and set it to 5 secs to go then forget about it until I nget the succesful or not email
I figure out my max price, then add the listing to "My Auction Sniper" app on android.
Drop the price in, set it to put my bid in with 3 secs to go
and sit back and let technology do it all for me.
Since using auction sniper I have won 5 out of 6 auctions without even sitting at the PC or on the phone
antihero said:I use this in conjunction with Pocket Auction on my android handset, and there is also a "my auction sniper" plugin for firefox that comes in handy. Set it and forget it.
10secs means somebody can say
''hmm i can afford £2 more '' and so you lose
if you wait till 2 or 3secs, they dont have a chance to rebid
I know there are ways of using a program to enter a bid at the very last moment - just dont use them...
...................10 or 5 seconds left :shrug: Ebay will just keep changing the price in whatever increments up to your`s or anybody else`s max bid.
tino said:I often look at what i consider to be overpriced, and allow the auction to finish, and then contact the seller and try to do a deal
Another is the last minute bid at whatever I would be willing to pay, plus a couple of quid because I would hate to lose an auction over that.
Often some buyers list collection only for larger items. Parcelmonkey recently collected a £300 child seat that I bought after the auction ended with no bids. Total cost for the seat was under £60
If there is something specific that I want, I research the price and then set the auction reminder on my Iphone, so everytime a new auction is listed, I find out. Buy it now on new auctions are often good bargains, but this requires patience
You also mention John you might put a max bid of say £100 on an item. It dont matter if there is 20,15, 10 or 5 seconds left :shrug: Ebay will just keep changing the price in whatever increments up to your`s or anybody else`s max bid.
yeah true - but a lot of people bid manually so if the price stays low and they sit there all dumb and happy and you whack a snipe in at the last second they dont have time to outbid you
I never set my maximum bid to a round number. E.g. If I think an item is worth around £100 then I'll set my maximum to something like £103.67. The reason being most people seem to think in £5/10 increments - depending on how large the item value is - and expect others to do the same. If the bidding stops bang on £100 then that's likely the maximum bid placed, including by the winning bidder
this - except that you need to bear ebay increments in mind - your bid needs to be higher by one increment than the last bid, so if someone bids £100 and you bid £101.87 they can still win if they get in first, if the ebay increment is say £2.50
big soft moose said:this - except that you need to bear ebay increments in mind - your bid needs to be higher by one increment than the last bid, so if someone bids £100 and you bid £101.87 they can still win if they get in first, if the ebay increment is say £2.50
big soft moose said:this - except that you need to bear ebay increments in mind - your bid needs to be higher by one increment than the last bid, so if someone bids £100 and you bid £101.87 they can still win if they get in first, if the ebay increment is say £2.50
big soft moose said:No if the bidding is standing at £100 and the increment is 2.50 you can't get a succesful bid with anything less than 102.50 - so if you snipe 101.87 it won't be succesful
I just whack my maximum whenever, it's my maximum so it doesn't really matter if it's 2 days or 2 seconds to go. Still win plenty that way.