Otherwise, and if your rationale were sound, no one would have any regrets or frustrations when the auction is sniped, because they would be happy with their maximum bid. If you've used eBay at all, you know this to be true. However, as has been previously stated in this thread, a person's maximum bid will change depending on the auction's activity - e.g., when it comes down to it, he/she may be willing to pay $5 more for the item in order to have it, if his/her maximum bid is in jeopardy of losing. Oh I understand perfectly how the auction works. You may not like the feeling you get when you are outbid with seconds to go - as opposed to being outbid with days to go - but there is no "gaming of the system." You are simply being outbid by someone who is willing to pay more than you are. Someone can't "grab" an auction from you unless s/he is willing to pay more than you are, no matter when s/he bids. I'm not sure you understand how the auction works. No sniping program needed (just dumb luck and/or an alignment of the stars.). even though that pen *also* had free shipping, to boot). Then, as it turned out, I won and didn't even hit my intermediate max on the first pen, and was the *only* bidder on the 51 Vac (a fact which I can only attribute to the fact that it had the cap for a 51 Special on it OR that no one was in the market for a black UK made one that weekend. As in "What is this 'snipe' of which you speak? I'm just gonna get flat outbid, and someone *else* will get sniped at the last second.". Figured I didn't have a snowball's chance in you-know-where on the Plummer. Bid on the black 51 Vac sort of as a backup. Upped my maximum a couple of times when I got nervous. I had concentrated on the Plum Demi all week, and started at a reasonably high bid (none of this nickel and dime stuff), then watched the price creep up over the course of the week. That's almost what I did last year when I got 2 Parker 51s the same weekend. (Yes, even the colour was the same, sigh!) No, the sure fire way to win auctions is to make a best offer on a pen that you don't think is going to be accepted, then spot an auction for the very same model but with a different nib that's ending within the hour, think oh well I won't get the other one so I'll bid on this, and of course you will both win that and have your offer accepted.īut I do actually like both my Conway Stewart Bellivers in Shingle. All you know is that he/she was willing for it to be at least $1 higher than your max, so you lost. So, you don't know the winner's max, never will. It bids next increments as long as there are bidders to back the bids. Because ebay is a dutch auction, it automatically bids the next increment, not the higher bidder's highest bids. 4) back to the original poster's thought, the fact that your best bid lost by only $1 is not meaningful except for the fact that it was your highest bid. That, of course, is why ebay discourages the use of snipers, and why one should use them. For me, it's utility, and a strategic means of keeping one more bidder out until the very end, discouraging more bidding and higher prices. 2) Snipe software is served closer to eBay than everyone who is not in Silicon Valley, so the bid starts physically closer to ebay. Know a couple of things: 1) setting it for zero seconds is probably too late, because of all of the pipelines your bid needs to go through. It's never failed me on a technical level and its fees, which you only pay on a win, are well worth the win for me, since it's not coming any other way. I've always used esnipe, which is web-based and operating system-agnostic.
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