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Originally Posted by Chris T
Kind of makes a mockery of the auction being open for several days if all the action takes place by bot in the last few seconds!
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It does a bit, but the advantage of having it run for several days is that you get your items seen for longer, get on to people's watch lists etc. I recently decided to flog off about 100 CDs that were surplus to my collection, so stuck them on eBay for a 9 day listing. You can see day by day how you get on to people's watch lists, plus you do get quite a few bids in the days before.
But as everyone says, it's the last few 10 mins or so when it gets interesting - my pot went from 120 quid to over 200 quid in a few mins!
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Originally Posted by aliferste
Thats what used to happen with Yahoo auctions.........a great feature!!
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Sounds like a good idea.
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Originally Posted by Nikko
An anagram of snipe is penis
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Originally Posted by GDW1975
Something that I often do when buying on ebay is to put my max bid at £ n plus a few pence... I often see people putting their max bid at a round figure, so a bid of just 1 penny more than theirs will be enough to secure you as the winner  ....if you're as tight-fisted as I am |
And I thought it was just me that did that!!
The bottom line to winning any auction, against a person or against an automated sniper program, is to bid more money than the other person. If you decide that an item is worth £y but the person using the sniper reckons it's worth £x then you will win the auction plain and simple.
It's part of the fun of using eBay, some you win some you lose!