ebay sniper tools

[gump]

snipers work
it just does what I would do if sat at a pc.
why show your hand early?

However, when your selling now, the price usually stays sh1t low until last couple of hours..even seconds :shock:

 

[Hilts]

Can someone clear something up for me..

If i'm bidding on an item and put in a max bid of say £100 and am current highest bidder with say £40 and a minute to go, if with 1 second to go someone snipes in £60 will they beat me ???

Never had this happen but wondering what the value of a Snipe is ??

Confused of Kent

 

[Mr. Zero]

If i'm bidding on an item and put in a max bid of say £100 and am current highest bidder with say £40 and a minute to go, if with 1 second to go someone snipes in £60 will they beat me ???

No. eBay's proxy bidding will kick in and increase your bid to £61, or whatever the bid increment is, and so on until you win or your max bid of £100 is outbid by another bidder.

 

[gump]

confused of kent,

snipe will bid your max - its same as you sitting at your pc and pressing 'bid now' on a £100 bid.

- deidre

 

[neilll]

If i'm bidding on an item and put in a max bid of say £100 and am current highest bidder with say £40 and a minute to go, if with 1 second to go someone snipes in £60 will they beat me ???

Nope, you will win the item for £61

 

[Hilts]

ok, so whats so good about Sniping ? If you know you will pay up a certain amount why not chuck that in and see what happens ?? Doing it in the last minute won't make any difference will it ??? No one can tell what your max bid is, if they then creep up and bid more and more until they work it out then they've gone beyond what you wanted to pay so let them have it......

 

[neilll]

If you know you will pay up a certain amount why not chuck that in and see what happens ??

Pushes the price up early potentially, plus you've 'played your card/showed your hand' so to speak.....theoretically increasing the final bid amount.

This will also serve to start off the 'nibblers' (manual bidders who stick in small and increasingly larger incremental bids to try and 'find' your proxy bid ceiling).

If I was serious about an auction (and I don't bid on much, i'm a hardcore seller on eBay, not a buyer) I would do no more than watch it until the last hour....then I would log in and check out the 'oppositions' buying style....then piss of and do something else....then come back 5 mins before end of item and lock 'n' load a phat one

I wouldn't 'fire' off my bid though until about 20 seconds before it finishes....then nobody else can counter your bid

At the end of the day what you bid is what the item is worth to YOU, not what it's current 'average going rate' is.

 

[cchris2lou]

I use sniper .

I dont like to bid early for reasons mentioned by Neill , push prices up and if seller has a friend bidding just to push price up , you are just helping the seller .

I do like the thrill of last seconds bids .

 

[Anthony]

I wouldn't 'fire' off my bid though until about 20 seconds before it finishes....then nobody else can counter your bid

Except a sniper - that's what they're for

At the end of the day what you bid is what the item is worth to YOU, not what it's current 'average going rate' is.

But you see any number of people who are sad about just losing an auction, implying to me that they wish they'd bid more and won. And my guess is that kind of bidder will in future lose to snipers all the time - and that'll force them into bidding higher, so prices will increase.

 

[gump]

..or prices will stay lower as you wont get those people bidding each other up a little more each time thinking they might just get it..

end of the day, if you want it, wack on a huge bid. end of. nothing will stop it...except finishing auction early