e-bay bidding?

Question

hi i want to know why i keep getting out bib on e-bay when i leave putting a bib on till the last 30 seconds but still get out bib how do they do it there cant be enough time for them to get another bib on where an i going wrong whats the secret there must be one please help stainless

Answer 1

try putting a bid on instead, bibs are what you put on babies to stop them from spilling food down their clothes.

Answer 2

If i REALLY want an item off ebay i put on my bid ( not me bib ! ) then i make my highest bid ( There is an option for you to enter your highest bid - you`ll see it ) If you do this ebay will automatically bid for you and you don`t need to do anything - just wait. If it`s a book i really want badly i`ll put on a bid and then make my highest bid something ridiculous like 14 quid. It doesn`t mean the book will cost me 14 quid - ebay will stop bidding on my behalf when the other person backs off, so i`ll probably get the book for a fiver or a bit more. But be careful cos i once did this - made my highest bid 20 quid - and the bidding just went on ond on and i ended up paying 17 quid for the book ! (which turned out to be crap and i gave it away ! ) The moral of the story is - don`t make your highest bid more than you`re actually willing to pay - someone else might want the item badly as well. Although having said all that, i don`t mind paying a lot for books as i love reading. I spend a fortune on books on ebay. It`s not how much the item is worth - it`s how much it`s worth TO YOU.

Answer 3

Ebay uses a system that lets you choose the maximum price you will pay. When someone else bids the system automatically checks to see if anyone bidding on that item will pay more and then submits the new bid.

For example: you are in the last 30 seconds of bidding and the current price is $10.00 you may submit a new amount of $10.50 but someone else who is watching hte auction submits a bid of $11.00. The system automatically sees your bid and raises it to $10.75 on behalf of the other person.

The trick is to wait till the last 20 seconds and submit a bid for the most you are willing to pay for the item. What will happen if someone else bids at the same time (but not as much as you) it will raise your bid .25 cents higher than the other person and you will get the item.

Thats why you sometimes see items jump $10-20 dollars in the last few seconds.

Answer 4

Try putting a double bid in. e.g.say for example you want to pay £20 for something and it is at £10. Put in a bid of £15 and then immediately a bid of £20. If the person before you has bid up to £10 it will show your 2 bids as both being £10.50. Then no one will know the gap between the 2. Plus use odd numbers like £20.08, or £20.42 and change them everytime. Good luck.

Answer 5

If you are desperate and really want to win the bid, enter the highest amount that you are willing to pay i.e if the current winning bid is £20 and you are prepared to pay £50, just enter your highest bid as £50, it will show that you are the highest bidder. Just coz you put your highest bid as £50 doesn't mean that's what you will have to pay, if you win and nobody else puts a higher bid in, you will get it at £20. Doing it this way gives you a better chance.
Hope this helps.

Answer 6

You obviously haven't visited auction stealer yet? You get to 'snipe' 3 items a week once you have set up an account. The site will take the details of the item and bid on it for you in the last 10-20 seconds, up to your chosen limit. It's a perfectly acceptable procedure.

Answer 7

Whoever bid before you had put on a higher maximum bid. That means that that person will still win the item.

For example, if someone puts in a maximum bid of £30 and you bid £29 he will still win the item.

Answer 8

because people put such a huge bid in to begin with so they make sure they will get the item if they want it bad enough,then ebay will just keep bidding until it has bidded up to your highest amount. i done it once , i was going out and the item i was bidding on was nearly finished so i put my bid up to £100 i pretty much knew they would not go for that amount ( if they had i would have paid ) but it made 99% sure i would win.

Answer 9

There is a program you can use that is basically a computer bidding for you. It's free and is not against eBay's TOS.

The program is able to bid again if needed, much faster than a human can. There's a strong chance that the person could be using it.

Answer 10

try raising your maximum price well in advance of the end, i usually find that if someone then does manage to outbid you near the end it's usually not by much, this should give you time to submit a higher bid! but beware not to pay over the odds for anything on ebay, it's like any other kind of auction, keep a price that YOU would pay in mind and don't go over it, if someone else pays too much for it, more fool them.

get bidding.