This will bore you all, I was bidding all week for set 17" alloy wheels for my mini, started at £60 I was wining my bid at £410,000 with higher bid in place just in case, kept refreshing the page, still £410,000 at one min, refreshed again still £410,000 about 30 sec and less i reakon..... then i guessed i had won so i was so excited. Then when i went onto my ebay i had been out bidded so bad i was gutted..........

 

£410,000???????????????

That's a LOT of money for a set of wheels

 

quite common mate - there are programs around to automatically bid for you. Sucks

 

It do piss u off when that happens

 

they usually go for around £600 - £700 second hand and these were white bad thou as didnt have any warning

 

That's e-bay!!!

 

thing is the guy that won, it was his first bid? dodgy maybe seller felt they were too cheap and bidded himself???

 

Same thing has happened to me with about 20 secs to go
But then again have also won stuff by bidding like this
You win some you loose some

 

http://www.esnipe.com works a fooking treat, so many advantages to snipping I don't think I will bother bidding directly anymore!!!!

 

I don't use any programs to do it for me, but I *do* try to get my bid in during the last 8 to 10 seconds of an auction that I want to win.

The up side is that it is unlikely you'll be outbid, but the downside is that you only get one shot and if you don't shoot high enough...you don't win if someone else had a higher proxy bid in already

Its a double-edged sword, but it works most of the time for me

 

Nah waht pisses me off is I was bidding on a Snap On screwdriver set worth new about £225 - on ebay slightly used for £35 (me as top bidder)

So rather than let it finish the cooont cancelled the auction I hate that! Jsut put a freakin reserve if there is a minimum you'll take for it FFS

 

I wait till last 20 secs then place the highest amount I am willing to pay, asdl helps as can refresh page in secs, this type of bidding is called sniping.

 

Bad luck Zoe

Cheers

Cteve

 

I used to do it manually but had the internet connection go to rat shit just at the wrong time once plus I sometimes used to forget about the auction until ten minutes after it finished!!LOL

With ensipe I just set-up it up and leave it, worth a look if your a manual sniper, it's free to use for the first 14 days as well!!

 

£410,000 for a set of alloys is a bit much

 

What really pisses me off is people who complain about getting outbidded
Its an auction FFS
You put in your HIGHEST bid you are prepared to pay and leave it, if the auction comes to an end and you were outbidded, obviously it went over the amount your prepared to pay, so no lose. If you win, great.

How simple is that

The sniper programs are cool for last minute bidding, but the above rule still applies. So whats the point

So Zoe, if you were willing to pay £700 for the wheels, put in £700, SIMPLE

Rant over

 

I didnt want to pay £700 thats the point, i think they are over priced but do look good... nevermind, I had that also when i was bidding for a dvd and i had bidded highest at £3 and he withdrew it at the end, couldnt belive it but also hve got lots of cheap bits and bobs