SWOOPO

Call me daft but I've spent the evening doing a far bit of statistical analysis on finished auctions and concluded that some desirable patterns do indeed exist, and that it should be possible to extrapolate these to my advantage.

I've registered and now have 55 bidding credits to my name. I shall let you know how I get on!
 
Feel sorry for the guy who grabbed this... £1.86 + p&p over the odds... And to top it off (Let's hope it's wrong!) the listing only mentions a 110V AC power supply. Now I know this site is international but as the currency is in GBP I'm assuming...
 
I just saw someone win a Macbook Pro for £55. Not bad! He made £134 worth of bids though but even so that's a bargain. BUT I wouldn't have wanted to spend £134 and not get the winning bid. I guess it's like betting on the horses. You might get lucky, you might not.

Also just saw someone 'win' a 20" Dell 4:3 monitor for £102 + £35 on bids. What a nutter. Can get a nice WS for that. The site said it was worth £330. No chance.
 
Al Vallario said:
Call me daft but I've spent the evening doing a far bit of statistical analysis on finished auctions and concluded that some desirable patterns do indeed exist, and that it should be possible to extrapolate these to my advantage.

I've registered and now have 55 bidding credits to my name. I shall let you know how I get on!
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I am definately interested to see your findings.
 
Just look at some of the bargains people are picking up in the middle of the night from about 4am till 7am. As it's a GB site everyone is asleep and some bargains can be had at these times i think. Might give it a shot soon.
 
Kevin Clark said:
I just saw someone win a Macbook Pro for £55. Not bad! He made £134 worth of bids though but even so that's a bargain. BUT I wouldn't have wanted to spend £134 and not get the winning bid. I guess it's like betting on the horses. You might get lucky, you might not.
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I had been monitoring that very auction for some time this morning. The winning bidder, Snowoard, was using BidButler, so every time the timer fell below 10 seconds and someone else was the high bidder he had a bid placed for him automatically — hence the massive number of bids; it wasn't a person who sat there and clicked 'Bid' 269 times!

This becomes extremely tiresome after a while, as you have no idea how many bids the person has lined up using BidButler, so no indication as to whether you will ever have a chance of outbidding him. After so long I lost interest (I only placed a couple of bids throughout, leaving others to throw away their bids all the time), and about an hour or so later it seems everyone else got fed up and lapsed their bidding.

That is a particularly high risk strategy for the bidder, as he was making a commitment of at least £134.50 to the auction, but in this case it paid off and he walked away with a MacBook Pro for 22% of the suggested price.
 
IcE-ColD said:
Just look at some of the bargains people are picking up in the middle of the night from about 4am till 7am. As it's a GB site everyone is asleep and some bargains can be had at these times i think. Might give it a shot soon.
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my i refer you to a post in this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15274120&postcount=66
all so the american version swoop.com lists the exact same auctions with the exact same auction ID's but with the price in dollars so your bidding against americans who are bidding on the exact same auction but on a different site.

take an auction url from this thread change .co.uk to .com oh look the prices are now in $ with the exact same bidders.

thheres probably sites for other countries aswell with the exact same auctions but with the language and currency of that country.
http://www.swoopo.co.uk/auction/nintendo-dsi-console-black-/221769.html

change the url to .com :P
 
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I suppose it could work if you came in late.

Say camera rrp of £250 was sitting at like £125 and it was nearing the end of people bidding, getting a bit too much. Papping in a 50p bid and on the chance of it ending as nobody else bidding would get you it for £125.10, but its down to luck, chance and a good prediction of when the item is at a likely sale price!

I havent looked at the site too much, but i remember this kinda thing from a while back... its all described well by Al Vallario on the first page.
 
craig_kennedy83 said:
I suppose it could work if you came in late.

Say camera rrp of £250 was sitting at like £125 and it was nearing the end of people bidding, getting a bit too much. Papping in a 50p bid and on the chance of it ending as nobody else bidding would get you it for £125.10, but its down to luck, chance and a good prediction of when the item is at a likely sale price!

I havent looked at the site too much, but i remember this kinda thing from a while back... its all described well by Al Vallario on the first page.
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every time you bid the time goes up though...
 
Tefal said:
every time you bid the time goes up though...
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and people who already bidded a lot will bid just so they dont lose as much money.

+ middle of night is irelevant like i said change the urls to some auctions on the uk swoopo site so they are .com
:p
 
Tefal said:
every time you bid the time goes up though...
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yeah i know, the time goes up by like 10-30 seconds when a bid is placed, but i was taking about an ideal scenario where as you knew roughtly what price the item would end at and coming in late to try win the item, not exactly with one single bid, i mean towards the end of it.
 
Al Vallario said:
Call me daft but I've spent the evening doing a far bit of statistical analysis on finished auctions and concluded that some desirable patterns do indeed exist, and that it should be possible to extrapolate these to my advantage.

I've registered and now have 55 bidding credits to my name. I shall let you know how I get on!
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Yep. You sound remarkably like the people who claim to have cracked the roulette wheel. It's gambling pure and simple. Swoopo is just very deceptive about it.

Infact this thread should be closed because they are clearly a competitor and this thread only serves to bring them more business.
 
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