Ebay bidding days before
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Siiiiiiiigh...
£50.02 would have been the maximum I was willing to pay, so if someone else had bid £60, then yes they'd win. So what? In that particular auction sniping gave no benefit, but as I said, STATISTICALLY, OVER MANY AUCTIONS, you will on average win more auctions and pay less for them if you snipe with your maximum bid right at the end of the auction.
This is the answer. If you put your max bid in 7 days ahead or 5 seconds ahead, the result is the same.
Unless people bid like in #115. The more people bid correctly (max bid plenty of time ahead) or snipe, the less point there will be in sniping.
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Most people DO bid like that!! That's the point. So buy entering your maximum bid at the last second you give those people (which is, let me reiterate, most people) no time to reach their true maximum bid. Therefore, on average, you will win more and pay less.
Right, but until such time...
So what? You'd have lost anyway; other bidder exceeded the maximum you wanted to pay. Unless you let yourself get caught up in the bid-fever after entering withan early bid, in which case- you're a fool
+1 to that
this is what makes ebay totally pointless to anyone apart from unemployed and houswives who can sit by the PC all day waiting on the clock to tick down.
Only time I ever use e-bay is for the buy now option if it's not there then I will simply buy off the guy who has a buy now option.
All to often even when you have won the real negotiations start.
Or that the package you are buying from ebay.be is actually coming from ebay.hk and get stopped at customs....
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I have watched items on eBay that I've wanted to bid on, only to find they have been withdrawn before the end of the auction. So I guess if the price doesn't rise well enough, some sellers may sell the item offline and remove it from sale. Not sure if it's allowed, but it does seem to happen.
How many people could honestly not take a few moments out of their day to do something like this if they wanted to? It takes no time at all to flick a browser over to ebay and slap a last moment bid on something - you know in advance when it is due to end.
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Yes it is allowed
The ebay 'end your listing early form' is available for sellers to end the listing and cancel any bids made
Now.....if a seller sells something, then changes their mind ebay don't do anything anyway.
I won an auction for a top of the range PC. It was fully loaded and worth about £3,000. I managed to win it for about £1,400. Guess what, the seller came up with a story about it being damaged and couldnt proceed with the sae. Funny how it was fine a few minutes before the listing ended, the developed a fault five minutes later.
Usually this is because it is normal and common practice to negotiate a deal outside of the auction.
It does happen, but I've never received a 'Buy it now' offer via messages for more than what the item actually sells for. I also have been very frustrated in the past when I was watching an auction only for it to disappear, probably due to an out of auction agreement.
So out of principle, I always refuse buy it now offers - stating my reason that it's unfair to those watching and/or bidding.
The nature of the items I sell (property renovation cast offs) is that they are almost always collection only large items, so the buyers transport and ability to collect is of importance to me, therefore I will admit to fairly often accepting out of auction offers and then pulling the auctions. It is unfair I agree, but at the end of the day as someone wanting to shift the stuff, you just go with what works.
Tell me about it... Just bought two water blocks (personal snipe BTW Hard Core
) and paid, later get a message and refund that the new Cards are R9 290X from here are 'duds' so have to be returned.... I've got an idea, don't sell till you are ready ....
If it's true, I feel for the guy, but the principal is still the same I'm afraid, you posted them for sale, you cant change your mind after the auction and not follow through... I've offered to take them once he is sorted with new cards, but no response to that
It also sets a previous price paid marker in ebay so now rather than the standard auction 'how much' there is now a marker saying two people wanted them 'this much' etc....
I haven't seen bad feedback for the two cards he also presumably reneged on yet so there is still a @harbour whiff ' in the air at the moment... Is there a big 'known problem with the R290X's? I'm not in the market so haven't looked, but I do feel scammed...