julencin2000
Dodgeball Yakuza
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Market forum is for home sous-vide cooking, eBay is like a McDonald's.
When I find something interesting on ebay, I place a bid with an amount that I find decent for the item in question and see how it turns out, I don't go back to the auction and increase my bid. If I made it, I made it, and if not, well, better luck next time. With this style of bidding, it's also irrelevant whether you are present or not when an auction ends.
I also beg to differ on your opinion that bidding in the last seconds keeps prices low, I've seen some crazy price hype shit going on with ebay auctions that had a decent price a minute before the end and then it went up tenfold or more. Again, this mostly is due to automated bidding via programs/apps.
When I find something interesting on ebay, I place a bid with an amount that I find decent for the item in question and see how it turns out, I don't go back to the auction and increase my bid. If I made it, I made it, and if not, well, better luck next time. With this style of bidding, it's also irrelevant whether you are present or not when an auction ends.
I also beg to differ on your opinion that bidding in the last seconds keeps prices low, I've seen some crazy price hype shit going on with ebay auctions that had a decent price a minute before the end and then it went up tenfold or more. Again, this mostly is due to automated bidding via programs/apps.
I've never understood the auction sniping hate. It doesn't have any advantage over just putting a max bid at any time.
eBay has bid incrementing and auto-bidding, both of which end up working like a sniping tool. If I put a regular bid at my maximum $100 on an item currently at $50 (which will stay at $50 until more bids come in, thanks to bid incrementing) and three other people put their secret sniper tools at $65, $80 and $90, none of them will beat my earlier max bid.
The fact of the matter is eBay is full of people with too much money.
truth!This market is perfect the way it is.
and that is how auctions skyrocket to absurd proportions.Overpaying by 2 or 3 bucks over your intended max isn't really a problem. We snipers play dirty, you wanna loose, that's your call.
and that is how auctions skyrocket to absurd proportions.
Post wanted threads with your prices and people will come, or you adjust your price.
More people should do this, honestly. If you offer a good price it can motivate someone who wouldn't normally sell, or you could get the bro hookup for less. There have been so many times where people have bought something from eBay and I'm like "it's on my shelf, I would sold it for half that price."Post wanted threads with your prices and people will come, or you adjust your price.
I said 2 or 3 bucks not stupid money, WTF, not so ninja on the reading skills I see. You really don't know shit about sniping.and that is how auctions skyrocket to absurd proportions.
but you see you get two or more people trying to snipe in the last couple minutes each trying to outbid by a few bucks and then it just escalates, I have seen auctions end at far more than available BIN prices in the last few minutes because of a few snipers trying to snipe each other. Generally if it is something I really want, I will put my max bid at what the BIN are going for (as long as they are not absurd),so what are you going to snipe a few dollars more than the BIN prices?I said 2 or 3 bucks not stupid money, WTF, not so ninja on the reading skills I see. You really don't know shit about sniping.
That's not sniping, ninja. That's just being dumb. You really don't know what sniping is brother, no offense. A good sniper marks his target and takes one shot, just one, at the last possible moment. If you miss your target you're slipping, you need to find the right target. Sniping is an art, you don't know us snipers, you don't know how we operate nor how much we pay for things, misconceptions are just that.but you see you get two or more people trying to snipe in the last couple minutes each trying to outbid by a few bucks and then it just escalates, I have seen auctions end at far more than available BIN prices in the last few minutes because of a few snipers trying to snipe each other. Generally if it is something I really want, I will put my max bid at what the BIN are going for (as long as they are not absurd),so what are you going to snipe a few dollars more than the BIN prices?
A good sniper marks his target and takes one shot, just one, at the last possible moment.
Overpaying by 2 or 3 bucks over your intended max isn't really a problem. We snipers play dirty, you wanna loose, that's your call.