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Sirius business

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Pretty sure eBay shows what you've put your max bid at. For instance if I set a max bid at £15 but it's currently at £5, eBay either only allows you to put in a bit over £15 or it auto bounces back, unlike a sniper. A sniper wouldn't do it as unlike eBay the script isn't initiated as instantly. It gives the person trying to outbid a sniper the thought that they're winning and allows them to log off.
 
Raymond Lin said:
We've had this discussion before :p

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

If you bid early, you drive up the price. If you bid late, no one has a chance to exceed your bid (unless they are a moron who put it in a week ago).

What's so hard to comprehend about this :confused:
 
To put it basically.

1. Sniping stops bidding wars between you and other bidders by not showing your maximum price and allowing them to "think" about it and bid higher and perhaps more than the actual item is worth. Your snipe is place seconds before the end and therefore reducing this risk.

2. Sniping will give you more chance of getting an item at a much reduced price due to less bidding wars

3. Sniping will NOT get you the item if someone is willing to pay more than you.


It is quite simple really, it is all about driving prices up on a fixed auction length. Bids rise by early bids. Stop early bids and stop the price rising until the last moment and therefore increase the risk you will get the item cheaper and at or below your maximum price.

Manual bidding will only get the item cheaper if there are no other serious bidders. If there are two serious bidders the chances are that if none of them are sniping the price of the item will sell at a much higher price and hence you stand more chance of being outbid due to competition.
 
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Indie said:
surely if you put in your highest auto bid to start with, then it doesn't matter? ....
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Oh FFS, it is not that difficult is it ?

Bidding early drives up prices and therefore increases the risk you will pay more in the end, it has nothing to do with who wins. If you want to pay close to your max price, then bid away as normal and be none the wiser in your isolated little browser world.

If you have 2 people sniping, then it is exactly the same as with no one sniping, just that it all happens within seconds of the end of the auction.
 
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Catanonia said:
Oh FFS, it is not that difficult is it ?

Bidding early drives up prices and therefore increases the risk you will pay more in the end, it has nothing to do with who wins. If you want to pay close to your max price, then bid away as normal and be none the wiser in your isolated little browser world.

If you have 2 people sniping, then it is exactly the same as with no one sniping, just that it all happens within seconds of the end of the auction.
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I believe the following statement sums this up for yourself...

Efour said:
Sirius business

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In response, the only time I've lost an item that I wanted (quite recently actually) was bidding on a Projector, which was probably worth around £250-£300 max. In the end, the projector went for just over £400. Quite thankful I wasn't sniping!

If somebody else wants the item, they will put their max bid in as well, or snipe and fail with a lower bid at the end?.. or win if they are willing to pay silly amounts of money for something thats not worth it.

Did the same thing and got a £400+ for £300.

I've tried both methods and the auto bid one works for me all the time.
 
Sniping doesn't go up infinitely?! You set a price your happy with and it goes off and snipes for you.

No one cares, though. The fact is that sniping prevents the price from rising artificially.
 
If people used max bids correctly then there would be no point in using a sniper....but they dont, so snipers work in some cases.

Scenario 1:
Bidder1 puts a max bid of £50 3 days before the end
Bidder2 puts a max bid of £60 2 days before the end
Bidder1 changes his max bid to £70 1 day before the end
Bidder1 wins item

Scenario 2:
Bidder1 puts a max bid of £50 3 days before the end
Bidder2 puts a max bid of £60 5 seconds before the end
Bidder1 has no time to revise max bid.
Bidder2 wins.
 
id just rather see the item, say " oh, thats worth x amount to me, il bid on it"

bid,
not worry about it
get an email saying im outbid or won
done.

im not really fussed if i can get it a few quid cheaper as if the price does go up,but i still win, it only means that someone else has done the same but doesn't value said item as much.
 
touch said:
If people used max bids correctly then there would be no point in using a sniper....but they dont, so snipers work in some cases.

Scenario 1:
Bidder1 puts a max bid of £50 3 days before the end
Bidder2 puts a max bid of £60 2 days before the end
Bidder1 changes his max bid to £70 1 day before the end
Bidder1 wins item

Scenario 2:
Bidder1 puts a max bid of £50 3 days before the end
Bidder2 puts a max bid of £60 5 seconds before the end
Bidder1 has no time to revise max bid.
Bidder2 wins.
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perfect example.
 
touch said:
If people used max bids correctly then there would be no point in using a sniper....but they dont, so snipers work in some cases.

Scenario 1:
Bidder1 puts a max bid of £50 3 days before the end
Bidder2 puts a max bid of £60 2 days before the end
Bidder1 changes his max bid to £70 1 day before the end
Bidder1 wins item

Scenario 2:
Bidder1 puts a max bid of £50 3 days before the end
Bidder2 puts a max bid of £60 5 seconds before the end
Bidder1 has no time to revise max bid.
Bidder2 wins.
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but.... the whole point of the max bid is thats how much you are willing to pay... maximum.

if it goes higher than your max bid, just leave it. THATS what people need to stop doing, as they then are spending more money than they wanted to.
 
davido_labido said:
but.... the whole point of the max bid is thats how much you are willing to pay... maximum.

if it goes higher than your max bid, just leave it. THATS what people need to stop doing, as they then are spending more money than they wanted to.
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You are correct.

And by getting this fact correct, you are smarter than 90% of other bidders on ebay.


I always use a sniper. I never pay more than my max bid.
Snipers win because people dont understand the max bid and think that they will get things cheaper by putting a lower bid.
Other people's stupidity saves me money :)
 
Thank you!

A lot of people think the amount they put in is the amount they are bidding at that moment.

Then there are those people who doesn't put their absolute maximum bid in, they put in what they want to pay, but then in their mind is another figure that they don't want to pay but would pay if it comes down to it.

Then there are those people who would bid to win no matter what.

Unless every one you are bidding against understands the concept of MAXIMUM bid then there is no problem. But eBay or the world isn't perfect like that so using a sniper removes a lot of people who will pay over the odds for things, or people who drive the price up.

Use a sniper tool and put in your maximum bid and you will either get it at the lowest price it can be or not at all. As opposed to the highest price as you just got a bidding war with while you were away (as your maximum bid triggers an email to the other bidders) or not at all.

It's not difficult to understand is it?
 
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