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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I agree. Sniping is the way to go. To snipe on eBay (or other auction): wait until the last minute to bid. Do not bid earlier, or some other fool will bid higher. Be online when the auction is closing. Decide your level of trust of your computer clock, and your connection. Depending on that, bid in the last (3 minutes, 1 minute, 5 seconds) and bid the highest number you are really truly willing to pay.
Then, the sniper with the highest "willing to pay" value wins. Or, frequently, only one person is sniping. The others stopped the auction days ago and hope that it will end there. Not so! But if they wait for your bid, before they top it, they can't when you bid at the last moment. Your bid must be your truly top value .... so that it will top however much they have on the auction already. Or, if it doesn't top their bid, (a) at least you've made them pay a higher amount and (b) you don't regret losing the auction because you truly weren't willing to go higher.
That about cover it, Marc?  |
ooh ta,
Aha I did that yesterday on a 505 (there were 2 going) I sniped (bid in the last minute) on the wrong one and missed out
(i.e my snipe value 161 pounds. The other one went for 160 and the one I did went for 166. I was too scared to go for both in case I won both
So now someone may snipe me out of my top dog position at the last minute which will be tommorrow