ebay sniping software
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i think thats the point of the software or site like goofbay. your not always near a computer when it gets down to the last 30 seconds.
sometimes if you put a bid in hours before while the bidding is at £50 (lets say £100) someone could bid £70 then instantly get outbid so they have time to bid again lets say £80 they get out bid so bid again lets say £90 again they get outbid so go for 1 latt attempt at £100 you are still winning because you bid that ammount first but the truth of the matter is if you had placed your bid with a couple of seconds left then after their initial £70 bid they dont have time to bid again so you have saved £30.
thats just the way it is with ebay
you still havn't bid more than the £100 you were always going to but there is a possability you could get it slightly cheaper and with no risk or cost envolved, seem's like on my side it's a win win situation.
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I won an auction recently due to the fact I didn't use a sniping tool.
I had a max bid of £175, I entered this in advance
Some guy I am guessing used a sniping tool to bid (I guess this as he landed his bid at the exact last second), he also bid £175, I won because mine was the earlier bid. My guess is he was rather ****ed when he checked to see we both bid the exact same amount.
I had a max bid of £175, I entered this in advance
Some guy I am guessing used a sniping tool to bid (I guess this as he landed his bid at the exact last second), he also bid £175, I won because mine was the earlier bid. My guess is he was rather ****ed when he checked to see we both bid the exact same amount.
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What if you aren't available in the last 10 seconds of an auction?
I've used http://www.auctionsniper.com/ for years - been very happy with it.
Good sniping tools can resolve that by setting bid increments.
I set 2 bid increments on my snipes - it means if you bid £175 first and my snipe goes in at £175 it'll increment it up to 2 times - that means in your scenario I'd have won it for £175.50.
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I dont get your point you would have bid more so you won. If the amount he bid was his maximum bid what would he have gained by bidding £174.5 having 2 more increments to go?
If he was willing to bid £175.5 he was willing to bid more, extra sniping makes no diff to someone willing to bid more than me..
I dont get the logic
I've used HammerSnipe for years. You get a few few snipes per week so I've never had to pay for it either. Bonus 
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The best ebay sniping tool is Ebay.co.uk
Seriously, Try it out, all you do is set your maximum bid and if someone bids less than you are willing to pay, guess what it does, you will never guess..... it matches their bid for you!!!! AUTOMATICALLY!!!!!
If it goes over the price you have set as your maximum it stops bidding because you would be paying too much for something, CRAZY!!!!
I have never understood why people are stupid enough to give their ebay details to other websites/programs for a service ebay offer themselves for free
Seriously, Try it out, all you do is set your maximum bid and if someone bids less than you are willing to pay, guess what it does, you will never guess..... it matches their bid for you!!!! AUTOMATICALLY!!!!!
If it goes over the price you have set as your maximum it stops bidding because you would be paying too much for something, CRAZY!!!!
I have never understood why people are stupid enough to give their ebay details to other websites/programs for a service ebay offer themselves for free
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I can't comment on sniping sites have I haven't used any, but I do know that eSnipe is another one that does it.
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the sad thing is i actualy thought u were serious for about 5 seconds
wtf?LOL
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ebay sniping is pointless. ok its anoying when an item gets bid on in the last second and you lose - but you would have lost anyway as they bid more than what you were willing to spend. its an auction so set your max price and stick to it - if they bid more so what? just bid on the next one.
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Lol at people who dont understand how sniping prevents bidding wars while the auction has ages to run.
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That only happens if the item you are bidding on is sniped by someone else with a higher bid than you - sniping will still work for you if your bid is higher.
I don't get how people don't get why sniping works on ebay - let me try to explain:-
As a previous poster pointed out - sniping works because OTHER people on ebay are morons and get carried away with bidding wars:-
1: Item starts at 99p.
2: Person A puts a max bid in of £20.
3: A day later you put a bid in for £30. As your bid is higher than person A ebay increments the bid to £20.50 to outbid person A.
4: Person B get a really helpful email off ebay telling them they've been outbid. They think "oh dammit I really wanted that item" so they put a new bid of £23 in.
5: They see instantly your bid has outbid them so they put £25 in, then £27, then £29 then finally £31 and they are highest bidder with £30.50.
6: You get an email saying you've been outbid - you think "oh well, it's gone above my max bid, better luck next time".
7: Person A wins the auction for £30.50
What happens with an auction sniper is:-
1: Item starts at 99p.
2: Person A puts a max bid in of £20.
3: You set up a sniper to place a max bid for £30 10 seconds before auction end.
4: Item sits at 99p right up until 10 secs before the auction.
5: Your auction sniper tool places a bid for £30 and as your bid is higher than person A ebay increments the bid to £20.50 to outbid person A.
6. Person B gets a really helpful email off ebay telling them been outbid but they can't do jack about it as the auction has ended by the time they get the email.
7: You get the item for £20.50
See - sniper tools not only let you win more items but they actually SAVE you money and time as well!
I know - why can't people get their head round this? It's really not that complicated. Oh well, at least you and I (and a few others in this thread) at least seem to have more than two brain cells to rub together
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I completely understand the view of those who think auction sniping saves them loads of money and how they will "prove" it does. I tend to disagree but thats another thread we did to death a while back.
The biggest thing I think those who only snipe fail to take into account is that often people who bid will sound out the market. I have before placed a bid 30 mins before the end of an auction quite a lot lower than I was going to bid, you can say to test out the competition as there were no bids made other than an initial bid for initial asking price.
I would never bid early the full amount I was willing to pay.
Ebay is an imperfect market place, regularly the same items can vary in price dramatically, ive seen numerous early bidders win (some say scare off the competition), mid term bidders win, last second bidders win, like my auction last second bidders bid the same amount and fail to someone who bid earlier (in my case about 4 seconds earlier). You have to make lots of assumptions in reviewing ebay data and thats the point its assumptions, you could only really say for sure if you took a large cross section of the population and modelled tha data in a controlled test. The very fact no uni graduate or anyone has "proven" sniping and last second bidding saves money to me confirms its only partially true.
Inevitably sometimes people get involved in bidding wars. Frankly thats the whole point of ebay working the way it does, its a service for the SELLER who is paying for that service, complaining that people who use the service in the way its intended, and having to resort to calling them names doesn't add anything more to the argument.
I would suspect that if ebay resorted to most people sniping they would change the rules to how some other auctions work (including most normal auction hall ones) where bidding takes place until someone stops. Reset the auction end time to 1 minute to go if anyone bids in last minute.
Snipers probably do better than most normal ebayers but as I say I have seen no facts its significantly better. Sniping won't cost you more than you were willing to pay, it takes away the reassessment phase a "normal" bidder will have. The case where at 30 secs its actually gone up to just above your bid but with less than a full bid increment. The "normal bidder" gets another chance to say hell yeah its actually worth that little extra and I'm going to up my bid a bit more.
The biggest thing I think those who only snipe fail to take into account is that often people who bid will sound out the market. I have before placed a bid 30 mins before the end of an auction quite a lot lower than I was going to bid, you can say to test out the competition as there were no bids made other than an initial bid for initial asking price.
I would never bid early the full amount I was willing to pay.
Ebay is an imperfect market place, regularly the same items can vary in price dramatically, ive seen numerous early bidders win (some say scare off the competition), mid term bidders win, last second bidders win, like my auction last second bidders bid the same amount and fail to someone who bid earlier (in my case about 4 seconds earlier). You have to make lots of assumptions in reviewing ebay data and thats the point its assumptions, you could only really say for sure if you took a large cross section of the population and modelled tha data in a controlled test. The very fact no uni graduate or anyone has "proven" sniping and last second bidding saves money to me confirms its only partially true.
Inevitably sometimes people get involved in bidding wars. Frankly thats the whole point of ebay working the way it does, its a service for the SELLER who is paying for that service, complaining that people who use the service in the way its intended, and having to resort to calling them names doesn't add anything more to the argument.
I would suspect that if ebay resorted to most people sniping they would change the rules to how some other auctions work (including most normal auction hall ones) where bidding takes place until someone stops. Reset the auction end time to 1 minute to go if anyone bids in last minute.
Snipers probably do better than most normal ebayers but as I say I have seen no facts its significantly better. Sniping won't cost you more than you were willing to pay, it takes away the reassessment phase a "normal" bidder will have. The case where at 30 secs its actually gone up to just above your bid but with less than a full bid increment. The "normal bidder" gets another chance to say hell yeah its actually worth that little extra and I'm going to up my bid a bit more.
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^ this
Sniping doesn't always work out well though.
I managed to get a bargain price on an item, only for the seller to string a customer support case out for 2 weeks and then refund me.
Just want to check that if I leave him negative feedback, he can't do the same to me can he?
Deserves to have some sort of punishment, if he didn't want to sell it at that price then he should have set a reserve.
I managed to get a bargain price on an item, only for the seller to string a customer support case out for 2 weeks and then refund me.
Just want to check that if I leave him negative feedback, he can't do the same to me can he?
Deserves to have some sort of punishment, if he didn't want to sell it at that price then he should have set a reserve.
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