One small bid at the absoulte minimum before the deadline will allow the future sniper to still place their max bid in one bid in that last 10 deconds. Your Gatekeeper isn't very effective, is it? You're upset because one interim top showing bid that was calculated by eBay's bidding system was lower than what you won at?
Of course it was. Oh dear. An earlier bidder you bid more than the sniper and - gasp - WON the auction. I take it you are a disgruntled bidder who keeps losing to last-second snipe bids. Snipers do not always win, and the end goal is NOT to "drive the price up. You, too, can learn to snipe.
Nibble bidding, especially in the last few minutes, is just not a winning strategy. Determine exactly what you would be willing to pay, taking the shipping charges into account.
Then place that bid in the last few minutes or seconds of the auction. You can do this manually if your internet connection is fast enough, or you can set your bid to be automatically placed by one of the many sniping programs available.
I am a sniper as a buyer, and as a seller, love it when the snipers show up at the end of my auctions!! Also, another tip: Bid in odd amounts. I would discourage you from bidding. What if someone needs an item and only finds it at the last minute?
Under your regime, they would not be allowed to bid just because you have all the time in the world to sit and bid and hope the seller will take your unreasonably low bid. That's very Nazi of you, wouldn't you say? Imagine their surprise to discover they were outbid. It is not the last bid placed that wins, but the highest bid. You won, congratulations! The practice you wish to curtail, is the practice of bidding. That's just not going to happen.
Ebay gets a percentage of the final value. They most assuredly wish you weren't willng to pay more than they did, but you were. Last minute bidders are the life blood of eBay. Nothing wrong with that. Other people are allowed to bid. The smartest way to bid is to bid once, bid your max, and bid as late in the auction as possible. The number of bidders, the current bid, and the like are totally irrelevant to what you need to do. Sniping is simply a defense against those who don't follow that simple strategy, but insist on basing their bids on what others have or haven't done.
How would you feel if you did and then your bid got rejected because of your proposed rule? It wasn't even a sniper. It was a snibbler. Bidder Bid Amount Bid Time. If that were the case, why not No new bidders after the first 12 hours of the listing or even the first hour?
A lot of people won't even bid before the 12 hour cancellation limit eBay places on the Seller. They don't want to waste their time bidding on something that can be removed without any warning by the Seller. The only thing that might have changed the outcome of the auction, in favor of the Seller, would be a minute past last bid extension timer that some of the other online venues use.
This is not eDibs. There's nothing wrong with bidding just once on an auction, nor in bidding as late as possible.
Yes, this has been discussed thousands of time over all the years eBay has been in business, the very first auction on the very first day was run this way and every auction since has been run the same way, it is the feature that has built eBay from nothing to a multi-billion dollar business enterprise.
Bidders are no bidding to "drive the price up", this is an auction and auctions sell to the highest bidders, all those bidders are trying to be the high bidder so they win the auction, at least up to a point, that point being where the price has gone high enough they are no longer interested.
The way to win auctions on eBay is very simple. You enter the highest amount you are willing to pay in the bid box and let eBay bid for you, one increment as necessary at a time until you either win or the item goes to someone who thinks it is worth more than you do.
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.
Join For Free! Save Money - bid once, when it counts. Flexibility - change or delete bids at will. Safety - pay just enough to win. EZ sniper places your bid at the last second of eBay and 40 other auction sites. This gives your competition no time to respond to your bid. So what happens now? No, not at all. She could be sleeping or at work while the system continues bidding for her using predefined rules her maximum bid. This also prevents her from getting emotional and bidding more than she's willing to pay for the item during a heated bidding war.
This is because people will keep getting instantly outbid by your proxy and that may encourage and fuel bidding wars as the item gets more attention, quickly driving the bid up. This disadvantage is similar to the Bid Nibbling one. The theory here is that by placing a quick late bid seconds before the auction ends, you make it nearly impossible for other bidders to react to your bid, hence winning the auction.
But wait, how would anyone else outbid you 3 seconds before the auction ends? A proxy. Recall when I said eBay strives to keep things fair?
Well, they had originally set a higher maximum bid than your own bid and were using proxy bidding, so when you placed your bid, the system instantly reacted and drove the bid up to outbid you, allowing them to claim the auction. So even though you placed what you thought was the highest bid seconds before the auction ended, the system reacted and allowed someone else to win because they had a higher maximum bid.
Recall when we said eBay wants the highest bidder to win, regardless of the time they placed their bid? So then what? Additionally, automated sniping services offer a few other advantages:. The short answer is yes, both sniping manually and sniping using automated software is allowed on eBay. These are two mutually exclusive events, and hence it makes sense for a seller to hate sniping as it may hinder the seller from achieving their goal.
Beating them is as simple as bidding higher than them, at any point during the auction. There are basically two ways to snipe, either manually or using sniping software or services. It might seem like the obvious choice will always be the automated services, however, these services need your eBay username and password to operate correctly.
There are many sniping services out there, the majority of them are inexpensive. When choosing a sniping service, the top things you want to look for are reputation, reliability, features, and cost. Most services are pretty close when it comes to features.
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