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Old 04-19-2010, 10:32 AM
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Old 04-19-2010, 10:32 AM
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Old 04-19-2010, 10:45 AM
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Old 04-19-2010, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
That's how I bid all the time. I wait till the last few minutes.
It's just like an auction you attend in person. If your not fast enough you don't win the item.
Thats right! Sometimes I wait til the last few seconds. :thumbup:
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Originally Posted by marsye
Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
That's how I bid all the time. I wait till the last few minutes.
It's just like an auction you attend in person. If your not fast enough you don't win the item.
Thats right! Sometimes I wait til the last few seconds. :thumbup:
The problem with that is you don't know how fast your server is, or the activity on it, so you can still miss out. Plus, I'm not usually able to be at my computer when an auction ends, since most of them end in the daytime when I'm sleeping, or in the evening when I'm at work. This way I place my bid and forget about it.
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Old 04-19-2010, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by debbieumphress
I hope they catch the ones with multiple accounts. I have heard this before too.
I had 2 accounts on eBay one for buying and one for selling but I never used the two to make me more money by running up the bids. It just made buying and selling a lot easier for me.

But I closed both accounts several years back because eBay is not fun anymore and their fees are ridiculous. I look just to see whats out there but if I want to buy something I usually just look on CL , Goodwill's Auction page and this forums for sale section.

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Old 04-19-2010, 01:14 PM
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Valuable lesson learned. I, too, once lost a bid after the zero. I now don't bid until the very end and I usually win the item I am bidding on. Bidding ahead of time only runs up the price. Most "career" ebayers don't bid until the last few minutes. So sorry you didn't get your mags.
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Old 04-19-2010, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Lockeb
When I see see something I want I usually won't bid - because if I bid I feel that I am showing more interest and I want to lay low.....but I bookmark it - and I will watch it - and then I will wait til it is just about to end and then bid near the end of the auction - I will rarely bid early - and most of the time it will work :-)
I thought about that, after I made my bid. Sure enough, I was out bid on one of them.
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Old 04-19-2010, 03:07 PM
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I'm very experienced buying and selling on ebay. My recommendation is to use a snipe program (esnipe.com is my favorite). Bid your maximum. esnipe will place your bid whenever you say (default is 6 seconds prior to the end). I don't like to go any tighter. Biding your maximum with a snipe service allows you to be calm and sensible and not get caught up in the frenzy of bidding at the last second. As far as throwing the bank at it, if that's what you are willing to pay, do it as a snipe. There are people out there who enjoy pushing bidders up. It's like they don't know what their maximum is, but they push you to your max, and figure if you were willing to pay that much, it must be a good deal for them to beat you by a few cents. Or they just push for fun to see how much they can add to your bid. If your bid isn't there till the last few seconds, they can't push you. Snipes services also cover the case where you forgot to bid, or the auction ends when you are sleeping or away from your computer. I place all of my important bids that way.
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