that is me

i can here the other bloke shouting at me through the comp screen 3 seconds to go and i was in, got my 4 speaker adapter plates for the mondeo for £2.20 though so i'm a happy bunny .

feel free to curse and swear at me, i'll look in my pockets to see if there is any care in there but i'll guess there empty

 

well done,

 

nothing wrong with a snipe.. how do you get it??

 

cheer's

i honestly don't understand what you mean there mate, i'm gathering i'll "get it" through the post

 

how can i get the snipe thing for ebay??

 

bid at the end

 

i see what you was saying now, yea i don't have a program just sad enough to set an alarm to warm me it close and glue myself to the screen

new years just gone i got a front/rear rs2000 bumpers and skirts for £50 cos i was the only bugger at 12.30 to be on his phone watching the auction

 

thats nothing my Girlfriend (Hairdresser_joy is her forum name) won a sofa, arm chair and footstall thing, its a excellent coindition set that cost the old owner 2000 quid at dfs, its really nice and comfy and guess how much the lucky bugger won it for






2 pounds 20 lol (my pound sign is not wotking on this keyboard lol) the seller actually let us have it for that price to and the funniest bit is she was to shy to hand over such a small amount of money so she paid by pay pal lmao

 

yeah i love my £2.20 sofa, chair and footstall, very comfortable. as u well know. lol

 

I always snipe at the last minute, no point doing anything else tbh.

 

lordy - here we go again..
So, you bid the highest, and won! - Shock horror!

 

I use auctionsniper.com - great for unattended bidding I must win 95% of my auctions that way.

It also lets you set up bid groups - i.e. I set up bids on 5 EE PC 901's with a max bid of £220 to go in 5 secs before the end. First three went above £220 before the end so auction sniper didn't bid for me, won the 4th one for £185 and it canceled the fifth one I was looking at - i.e. with a bid group it cancels all the other bids if you win one - well it doesn't cancel them - it just wont bid. All set up in about 5 mins and no need to sit at your comp screen pressing refresh every 10 secs In fact, I won it whilst I was on the bog

When i sell something I always set it to end at 8pm on a Sunday night for that very reason. If you look at the ebay site visitor stats it always peaks at 8pm on a Sunday. Other big peak is 10am Saturday - I guess as people are waking up and checking thier auctions.

 

I've had some right bargains by firing in last second bids on Ebay - it is the only way I buy on there now, I don't see the point in bidding 6 days before the end for the price to be bumped up


Only downside is you have to be prepared to pay a little over the odds sometimes if it is something you want that isn't available else where as your 5 second bid might not be high enough to kill off the competition

 

If it's not available anywhere else, how can it be "over the odds"? "Over the odds" implies it's available elsewhere for less.

 

and youre not paying over the odds anyway, you pay what yore prepared to pay. I dont understand itterative bidding, you take a figure, bid that and if the other guys gets it he didnt "beat you" he was just prepared to pay more for it. It's not a complex principle

 

i was planing a snipping earlyer on some new 1210's last 15secs waked in my highest exspecting to be out bid, and nope, only bloody bidder so got them at the starting bid
im happy as a pig in shit now(but a little disapointed i didnt do anyone over at the last min)

 

i do that to iv had loads of cheap stuff of there

 

The other trick is to deliberately misspell an item you want when searching for it - I got a brand new "Westren Digitla Rpator 300gb hrd disc" for £15 doing that RRP is £180.

 

LOL, so with ebay fees and paypal fees they prob got a pound for their £2000 furnature !!!

 

why set auction sniper up 5 secs before the end?...why not 1 sec?. makes more sence to me anyway i know its what i do...

 

Well I just put in a good bid and if I win it I do, if someone pays more than I'm prepared to do, that's up to them.

Bid sniping, well it sounds like a good idea, but it's never going to work out long term.

 

why on earth not?

 

www.fatfingers.co.uk

Searches for miss spelled words on ebay automatically for you, WELL handy

Matt

 

because its costing ebay money !!!

some of the car breakers on here will know about this, one of the auction sites my dad uses is run like ebay well untill recently.

they realised they were loosing money by bid sniping so, what they now do is if someone bids in the last minute they extened the auction for 5, only people that have previously bid are allowed to bid in ''overtime'' meaning its impossible to snipe

it will not be long before ebay implements something along these lines

 

Ah,not going to last is fair enough. It will work out for me in as long a term as Im able to do it!

What other auction sites are there?

 

the ones i was talking about are breakers only ones