[LargeFormat] EBay/auction sniper

[Ryan K. Brooks]

Bidnapper.com - no problems for me.

-Ryan Brooks

Les Newcomer wrote:
> Up until a couple of weeks ago I thought Auction sniper was a marriage 
> saver.  No more "Gotta go home early to bid on something"  but has 
> anybody else noticed that they've been having problems a bit too often?  
> They claim ebay slows down and it backs them up, so even though ebay was 
> back to normal when my auction closed, AS couldn't place the bid.  I"m 
> about ready to give up on AS. Anybody else have any suggestions? 
> Alternatives?
> 
> Les
> 
> 
> RE: Ebay proxy bidding makes them money
> 
> Yes it does benefit them. Most people don't have a maximum amount they 
> will pay for an auction. They will bid it up and go back and bid again 
> and again. This raises the final price and you'll have to enter a snipe 
> more than what's been bid up.   At one point people were complaining so 
> loudly about sniping that ebay looked into extending the auction time by 
> X amount after the final bid. This would allow reaction bidding.  I 
> guess trying to manage a 100,000 acutions with multiple end times just 
> wasn't feasable.
> 
> They know that their proxy bidding makes them money, because they refuse 
> to allow links to Auction Sniper and others in their auctions.  I had 15 
> auctions shot down because of it.
> 
> 
> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Vince Dobson wrote:
> 
>> nOOOOOOOOOOOOO Stan,
>>
>> Look at it this way.  Most bidders (I've won against a lot) want to be
>> showing as the high bidder.  If I bid on something either directly or by
>> letting Ebay's proxy bidding do it for me, the other bidder will increase
>> his until he is higher than me and here it goes see-sawing up.
>>
>> I do exactly like you said - research and decide the maximum I am 
>> willing to
>> pay ---- enter that bid with auction sniper and they place my maximum 
>> bid I
>> am willing to pay 7 seconds before the end so that no reactionary 
>> bidder can
>> increase what I will have to pay.  If you want to pay more then let eBay'
>> s
>> proxy do it for you --- don't you see Ebay's proxy keeps you the 
>> highest -
>> the other dude's proxy (or direct bid) keeps him the highest.  This works
>> best for the company running the auction that benifits from the 
>> increase of
>> their percentage on what the item brings ---- of course they want you 
>> to use
>> their proxy bidding!!!
>>
>> Do the math and think about it.  I enter the maximum I want to pay 5 
>> seconds
>> before the end - I either get it or I don't, but I don't have to go 
>> back and
>> increase my bid because someone had increased theirs to be higher than 
>> mine.
>>
>> I've bought 2 Omega D5XL enlargers, a 16", a 26" and a 31" Kreonite
>> automatic processors, Wing Lynch and Photo Therm film processors, a 8x10
>> Zone VI, a Wisner expedition 4x5, a Tachahara 4x5, about 20 lens, 
>> paper and
>> huge lots of film this way and never enter a bid except within the 
>> last 5 or
>> 7 seconds of the auction.  I've never therefore increased myself the 
>> price I
>> had to pay!
>>
>> "EBay automatically bids for me" -- how nice of them to increase their
>> commission that way. :)
>>
>>
>>
>> <This only works against an undisciplined bidder. Before I bid on 
>> something,
>> I research to find out what the retail price is, what similar items have
>> sold for previously, etc., then I enter the maximum amount I'm willing to
>> pay. eBay automatically bids for me up to that amount. When you come 
>> in at
>> the last second with a snipe bid, one of two things happens: either your
>> bid is less than my maximum, in which case I win the item; or your 
>> item is
>> more than my maximum, in which case you win the item with a bid larger 
>> than
>> I was willing to pay. If you bid more than I am willing to pay, it doesn'
>> t
>> matter to me whether you enter that bid 7 seconds or 7 hours before the
>> auction ends.>
>>
>> Stan
>>
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