Always bidding low on ebay

[Effy]

TjLaZer : I know what you mean, I also often see the same bidders on my auctions when they have just been offered on Ebay. But I have also seen objects being sold for 1 or 2 Euro with only one or two bids placed 8 days before the end .. some people really hope they´re gonna be lucky. I have also placed bids days before the ending and won it, but I can assure you that those were prices higher than 50 Euro, and if I win it I´m not gonna tell the seller that I just do this for fun and don´t want to pay it  :lol:

[Effy]

A logical explanation can be that most Amiga users are adults, have a job, have a life, and are able to spend more money than students of 14 years young .. no offense to those  that have that age ...

[Effy]

If you want to have a low end price then bid the last moments and not 9 days in advance. I have also placed bids three days before the end and won it, but mostly I got outbid  :lol:

[Effy]

Such an autobidding is meant to keep the price as low as possible so no other can place a higher bid. I have read auctions where sellers say "no snipers" because that way the end price will not be hign enough.
An example : seller Mr_Greedy sells an A2000 with a starting price of 1 USD. He has a friend or another account which is meant to raise the price as high as possible and waits for buyer Mr.Goodguy to place a bid of, let´s say, 30 USD. Mr_Greedy thinks it´s too low so he bids 35 USD hoping that Mr_Goodguy will raise his price too to get that A2000 and places a bid of 40 USD ...
Let´s say Mr_Goodguy wants to save money and uses such an autobidding program, also known as sniper, and has it placed a bid 5 seconds before the auction ends. Think you know as well as I do that Mr_Greedy has no more time to place another bid to raise the price, does he ?!
So autobidding is a good way to get something as cheap as possible  :lol: It´s a bad thing for sellers but that´s not your problem. And yes, I too sell things and I too see who uses a sniper or not, but I don´t mind as this is part of Ebay  :lol:

[Effy]

http://www.justsnipe.com/

That is the one I often use when I am not at home or sleeping (?) in bed. If you are not registered you can do, I think, 5 snipes a week and it will be placed 30 seconds before the end of the auction. If you want to register then it will cost you a lousy 5 USD a month which is peanuts if you plan on buying a lot :lol:

But there are more services or programs avaliable from which  some of them are totally free of any charge.   :rtfm:

[Effy]

And the 5 USD you pay to Justsnipe.com are for a whole month, no matter if you snipe 30 times a day or 1 time every  30 days, no matter if you have a 2 USD snipe at a copy of Workbench 1.3 or a 1000 USD snipe at a collection of five Amiga4000´s  :lol:

[Effy]

Hey, that´s what this forum is all about, to help eachother  :banana:

One little detail if you or other guys want to use a sniper. Don´t get tempted by the thrill by having placed a bid the last second or last two seconds. It may work just fine but due to a delay on the net you can also get an error that the sniper program was not able to do the snipe. This has also happened to me and I didn´t win the auction, even though my bid would have been higher than the one who won the auction.  :boohoo: