BS: eBay Strategy

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 02:47 PM

eBay offers a service that does that... and if you are out-bid, gives you the chance to beat the winning bid, after it's done, if you wish to...

Advice Joe? Ya... Read the eBay FAQs and such...

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: wlisk
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 02:39 PM

There is a website service called Auction Sniper www.auctionsniper.com that will place your eBay bid in the last 30 seconds of an auction. They charge a fee for their service of course.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: Deckman
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 01:37 PM

Joe ... STOP READING BOOKS!! Cheers, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 01:31 PM

Do they send out email alerts to the bidding parties in the last few minutes, hoping to cause a flurry of activity? I remember reading something about how they have that practice built in, and it has caused problems.

Back when Amazon had some decent books in their auction and the people who listed them had a clue as to how to actually list their books, I was topped several times before realizing I had to hover nearby and not bid until the end, and hope that no one else was paying attention. Then they started the practice of sending a post to everyone else if someone posted a bid in the last 10 minutes AND they extended the bidding for another 10 minutes. It's patently unfair to the bidders to keep extending things to try to raise the price if there was initially a set time. If you're not paying attention, you lose. That's what I figured out. Then they changed the rules.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: Amos
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 01:16 PM

For anything of value those last three minutes are the crux of the affair.


A

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 01:12 PM

That's how they do it - why waste energy going in early? That would only bump up the price.

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 01:07 PM

Yeah, but they didn't enter that bid until about four minutes before the auction. I was on top at four minutes before, and this guy hadn't bid on the book at all before that.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 12:59 PM

Looks like someone put in a top bid that was way above the level you were prepared to go to. In that case there would be nothing you could do as whatever bid you put in would be automatically topped by the other bidder.

Better luck next time.

Subject: RE: BS: eBay Strategy
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 12:53 PM

Yes, Joe, I have the perfect solution. I will PM you later with the details. After lunch.

Subject: BS: eBay Strategy
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 12:52 PM

Dang.
Dang, Dang, and Double Dang.
I was bidding on a one-volume reprint of English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. It was at $51 last night, and I decided to wait until just before the auction ended this morning. Five minutes before the auction ended, I had it for $62. Then, a minute before the auction ended, somebody bid above my maximum $75 bid. I took it up to $100, but was still outbid. Four seconds before the end of the auction, I chickened out.

I was so close.

Anybody have strategy advice for me?
How about some sympathy, too?
-Joe-