[LargeFormat] EBay/auction sniper

Wed Feb 12 08:56:22 2003

I've had no trouble with AS - in fact on one auction I was trying but could
not get into eBay but AS did and placed my bid for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
Behalf Of Tim Atherton
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:34 PM
To: largeformat@f32.net
Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] EBay/auction sniper

try www.bidnapper.com

I like it

> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
> Behalf Of Les Newcomer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:28 PM
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] EBay/auction sniper
>
>
> 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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> >
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