E-BAY STRATEGY

[mountaingun629]

Sniping is the best way to win an auction at a reasonable price. If you "bid early, bid high, and bid often", it encourages a bidding war with other lookers that develop "auction fever".

I always opened the page for the item twice, (in two pages) that I downsized each to half the width of the screen. Get your highest and best bid ready on one of them so all you have to do is hit the "confirm bid" button, then keep refreshing the other page so you can keep track of the remaining time and the current price. Within 2 or 3 seconds of the end time, all you need to do is slide your mouse over to the other page and hit "confirm bid". That usually doesn't give others time to try to outbid you.
Confused already? It takes a little practice to get it right.

All that said, I have not shopped Fleabay since they mandated that sellers, and therefore buyers must use Ripoffpal. Got ripped there once, not going to do it again.

Myron

 

[paplinker]

And for those of you that have said that you don't know what you maximum limit may be, just maybe you shouldn't be bidding in auctions in the first place..... (You are exactly what the auction companies love. Especially if they can get two of you bidding on the same auction.)

I get your point. i do not want a bidding war either. But my max limit can change depending on need, unexpected funds.( my max could be lower earlier because of lower cash flow not by item worth)It even can change just by reflecting on it over over the week. Havn't we all changed our mind before what a gun is worth? Since auction close i have found what nice alves have been bringing on diamond targets and my max bid was a bit low so i guess i may have lost anyway. Still learning about auctions and smith products and this forum has given me much more insight on how others handle both areas.