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[file28]

hi there i think its unfair, i work long hours and some times i can't be there to bid. but i don't want to put a big bid in if i don't need to as many sellers use more than one account and bid on there items themselves so they get more money for them.

ebay has a program for auto bidding i think its called bid assistant
i personally enjoy hitting the refrsh button with my max bid ready to confirm at about 5 secs good fun  

[miggy]

hi there i think its unfair, i work long hours and some times i can't be there to bid. but i don't want to put a big bid in if i don't need to as many sellers use more than one account and bid on there items themselves so they get more money for them.

ebay has a program for auto bidding i think its called bid assistant
i personally enjoy hitting the refrsh button with my max bid ready to confirm at about 5 secs good fun  

 

[Bacon Butty Man]

Thats how i won my Mig on feebay, in the last 30 secs, i put my max bid of 950 n won it for 910, didnt get any wingers tho, fair play i say

[Andy B]

There is /was a site called Snipe(?) You got about 5 free goes to start with.

[rad cap]

email them back tell him he can buy it for a fiver when you finished with it that will pi....s him off, or put it back on with a tenner reserve

[Ken T]

I currently use  http://www.ezsniper.com/ It works reliably, doesn't screw up as often as others, and is fairly cheap. http://www.auctionsniper.com/ is another I used to use, a better interface, but it started not placing bids so I dumped it.

Ken

[shyboy]

Automated sniping has got to be an inevitable part of the bidding process. But the coys. who do it can't guarantee placing your bid in time when things are very busy. You have to be very lucky to beat their automated systems though.
Oddly enough, when I bought my 2.6l on ebay, I was intending to watch the bidding for the last hour or so to put in a last minute bid. Then a friend of my wife who had just lost her husband called on us, and we took her for a meal to try to take her mind off things for a while. I reluctantly placed a highest bid before we left, with a big margin over the then highest, because I really wanted the vehicle. When we came back 3 hours later the auction had just finished, and I couldn't believe that  there had been no more bids above my last one, and the car was mine for what I believe was an excellent price, well below the maximum I had placed. And the car's every bit as good as I had hoped.
It's all in the luck of the draw. There aren't any rules.

[dbug]

I've been watching a story book on E-Bay for my teenaged son, it's a discontinued book, rare, but, affordable at around a tenner.  I watched it until the last minute and won it at 18 seconds to spare, paid for it, great communications from the seller and we've received it today in excelent packaging.  I've duly left the appropriate 5 star feedback etc..

Then, I received a message from another E-Bayer, who had previously bidded on this item at an earlier stage in the auction, less than £3 with no further bids since.  :-?

They said, in a nut shell, that, I should be ashamed of my self for late bidding and wondered if I was now going to go upstairs to raid my kid's money boxes...  " I did that several weeks ago!"

I believe that auctions work in a way that, the highest bid on the fall of the hammer, however late wins the article :-/

Please vote accordingly, any comments will be appreciated (Pos or Neg)

Cheers DC

Bidding with 18 secs to go aint late bidding!!  I usually bid a bit later than that!!  No probs with late bidding - ebay is the same as any other auction - lot goes to highest bidder - only on ebay there is a time limit - use it to your advantage!

[gstylebaby]

Weird Al Yankovic; `always funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYokLWfqbaU&feature=related

  Brillant and so right gonna have to send this to my mates.

[gstylebaby]

email them back tell him he can buy it for a fiver when you finished with it that will pi....s him off, or put it back on with a tenner reserve

TOP IDEA.  

[Danny]

Weird Al Yankovic; `always funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYokLWfqbaU&feature=related

  Brillant and so right gonna have to send this to my mates.

I had it on a CD at work in the sports shop i was at at the time, the area manager came in and i was expecting a telling off for inappropriate shop music, only to find out he was a big fan of weird al