It’s best to leave it like that and swoop in at the last second when there’s no competition for the item.Ģ) Many people DO NOT set a maximum bid as you’d expect. Yes technically that is true but in practice there are some clear disadvantages to bidding for items in the conventional way:ġ) If an auction has no bids you don’t want to be the first! Herd/sheep mentality is strong on eBay so an auction with no bids makes people think something is wrong. “But why!?” I hear you asking… Isn’t is easier to just set your bid and leave it – after all that is the whole point of how auctions work on eBay? The process is extremely simple, once you’ve registered an account with one of the many eBay snipers online all you have to do is enter the item number of the auction you’re interested in, set your maximum bid and the sniper will take care of the rest! It really couldn’t be easier. You bid $50.00 at 3 seconds - too low, you lose.Today we have a slightly different, and I hope very interesting post, all about eBay Snipers!įor those of you who have never come across the term before, what exactly are “snipers”? No, it’s nothing to do with war or police – snipers are tools that allow you to bid on eBay auctions at the very last possible moment.Īnd that’s actually where the term “sniping” comes from, when you steal an item with a last second bid. They bid $50.50 at 5 seconds - and that bid is rejected, so you winĬompared to same $ amounts, but you bid later An earlier bid is actually BETTER, because it means that other bidder's offers will get rejected if they are not at least 1 bid increment above yours. There is absolutely no point trying to win in the last second. If both snipes work, the AU one will win because it is earlier. If the AU snipe fails, the USA one will work instead. That way, in almost all cases teh AU account will win, which makes thinks a LOT easier (for a variety of reasons I won't discuss here). Then 2 seconds later it sends another bid to USA. So, what this does is sends the first bid at 8 seconds to AU. Gixen mirror target ebay site: United States Your current country setting is: Australia Plus there are other reasons not to go so "short". Right now I have set them both at 3 seconds, because if one is for example 6 seconds than somebody can still place a higher bid and outbid me?ģ seconds is TOO SHORT to be 100% reliable.
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