Ebay bidding days before

[Guest2]

Why do people bid on items that have no reserve when there are day's to end? This just drives up the price of the item unnecessarily

Surely its better for everyone to not bid until the last minute then go in with your highest bid

 

[nick.lidgett]

I bid early on stuff i really want because if i add it to my watch list i often end up forgetting about them or missing the deadline.

 

[Kenai]

Perhaps because some people get chance to browse and bid on say a Thursday evening and don't subsequently have time or suitable access to sit there and bid at 3pm the next Tuesday when it ends.

A bid early and forget mentality also limits the chance of getting dragged into a 'heat of the moment' bidding war, you set your price and leave it alone.

 

[Jono8]

Don't try to understand anything that goes on on ebay.

It is full of people bidding more than the price the item costs new from a shop. That should tell you enough about ebay's user base.

 

[Guest2]

Perhaps because some people get chance to browse and bid on say a Thursday evening and don't subsequently have time or suitable access to sit there and bid at 3pm the next Tuesday when it ends.

Smartphone & ebay app. Can bid pretty much any time, anywhere. Also, the watch feature is useful as it emails you to tell you its ending soon

 

[eatcustard]

I only bid in the last 5 seconds

 

[Kenai]

Smartphone & ebay app. Can bid pretty much any time, anywhere. Also, the watch feature is useful as it emails you to tell you its ending soon

Not everyone has a smart phone, nor does everyone necessarily have access to it (if they have one) at the time an auction ends.

 

[MooMoo444]

It's automated, so it doesn't matter when you bid. If their highest is more than yours, they'll obviously win...therefore why wait for the final seconds?

Sniping died when you could set ebay to bid up automatically.

 

[Nightglow]

I only bid in the last 5 seconds

Exactly the same, but I can get it down to 3 seconds on occasions.

 

[Steve2000]

I use Goofbid on all my bids. Even when I know nobody else is going to bid. It's happened to me before when I've went to bid in the last 10 seconds or so and realised I wasn't even logged in, so I missed out.

 

[Lopéz]

It makes no difference when you bid unless you intend getting into a last minute bidding war.

 

[Raymond Lin]

We've had this discussion before

I use a sniper, I don't really want to go into a bidding war against people and drive the price up.

 

[snapdragon]

How to Ebay 101.

Find item

Check listing details ( ensuring you are not buying a photo of something )

*unless you are trying to buy a photo in the first place

Check completed listings of same/similar items and decide on your maximum bid

Use any number of sniping programs available

Get on with your life

*email notification of successful / failed bid, pay / find another to bid upon

Rinse and repeat

 

[davido_labido]

I bid early because I know what price I'm willing to pay.


If I'm willing to pay 70 quid for an item. I but in a bid of 70 quid.

If someone else bids 50 I pay 55 (or what ever it is) if someone buts 75 then I don't buy it. Simple.

If I was to bid at the last minute, I'd bid 70 quid hoping to snipe it for the price I'm willing to pay. If someone has already put 75 in, they win... If they put 50, then I get the item for 55.

There's no difference.....

 

[HAz]

I always laugh at the idiot with low feedback that puts a max bid of £15 in for like an iPhone 5 or something lol.

 

[Amp34]

It makes no difference when you bid unless you intend getting into a last minute bidding war.

Yes it does, it shows your hand to the other bidders.

Ebay autobids against another bidder until one of you have got higher. If you set your max bid early then the other bidder can keep bidding until they beat your max bid. Snipe at the last second with the same max bid and either you don't bid enough and lose the item (shame) or you do and you get it for just above the price the other bidder set without giving them time to up their max bid.

 

[Amp34]

I bid early because I know what price I'm willing to pay.


If I'm willing to pay 70 quid for an item. I but in a bid of 70 quid.

If someone else bids 50 I pay 55 (or what ever it is) if someone buts 75 then I don't buy it. Simple.

If I was to bid at the last minute, I'd bid 70 quid hoping to snipe it for the price I'm willing to pay. If someone has already put 75 in, they win... If they put 50, then I get the item for 55.

There's no difference.....

Yes there is, the first scenario gives the other bidders a chance to outbid you for the several days you are the highest bidder. Sniping means they have either a matter of seconds or a split second.

 

[wndsr]

Yes there is, the first scenario gives the other bidders a chance to outbid you for the several days you are the highest bidder. Sniping means they have either a matter of seconds or a split second.

I used sniping for the first time yesterday, awesome little tool

 

[davido_labido]

Ok...

So...

I wait till the very last minute, put in a bid for 50 quid, someone does 60, so I snipe in with 70.... (assuming they haven't already bid a greater amount, which obviously would take president over my snipe anyway) then I pay 70 quid.

If I put in a bid for 70 quid a few days befor, they put in a bid of 50, then 60 then 70 then 80 and my bid then is lost obviously... It just means that person values the item more than me...


I've never lost an item that I've wanted.
I've never lost an item to eBay snipers either.

As I just put a high bid on it to the value that I think it's worth to me. If someone is willing to pay more then that's fine.

If I try and snipe the person that is like me and just bids the price you are willing to pay then uyou could a) run out of time (trying to bid 6 times say but automatically being outbid by the original bidder)

 

[Raymond Lin]

You don't wait until the last minute.

You wait until the last second (or less than 5 seconds).