Auction Sniping Services

[HIPPEEDUDE]

Originally Posted by Redmagster

Whenever I lose an auction over what seems like 2 or 3 cents (or pence if you're from the good old UK!!) it does me good to remind myself that the winning bid may well not have been the limit the winner set...

Put it this way - you might have been up against Lemur...

So no amount of extra pence would have helped you then....

The flipside to this is you will also be forever wondering if i did enter those few extra cents would i have won. So unfortuately you have to remind yourself of this as well. Fleabay is like a legalized gambling service,you roll the dice & hope your number comes up. Occassionally it does & occassionally it doesnt but either way the house still wins,lol

[Lemur]

Originally Posted by SwiftDeath

Right but with unpaid cases and the like don't you worry you might screw up that ebay account if you don't pay enough?

I haven't had any unpaid cases so far. All won at prices I'm willing to pay

Originally Posted by SwiftDeath

You know what my first thought was when Lemur said his bit?

I wonder if he bids $10000.93

I bid more than that!

Originally Posted by HIPPEEDUDE

The flipside to this is you will also be forever wondering if i did enter those few extra cents would i have won. So unfortuately you have to remind yourself of this as well.

That's precisely the shitty feeling I hate. So my method ensures that if I lose the item, it's because I did not want to pay for it. My call.

[HIPPEEDUDE]

Entering a $10000.93 bid has its logic to a point. Sure you may win the auction but theres a steamroll effect where other sellers see the stupid price it supposedly sold for & then inflate their prices accordingly. Doing this is almost just as bad as bidding on something you have no intention of buying,you just want to see how high it will go if its to high you dont pay or you retract your bid. Either way the next time it or a similar item is listed its done so at at a ridiculous price to match what it "apparently" sold for previously.

[Lemur]

Originally Posted by HIPPEEDUDE

Entering a $10000.93 bid has its logic to a point. Sure you may win the auction but theres a steamroll effect where other sellers see the stupid price it supposedly sold for & then inflate their prices accordingly. Doing this is almost just as bad as bidding on something you have no intention of buying,you just want to see how high it will go if its to high you dont pay or you retract your bid. Either way the next time it or a similar item is listed its done so at at a ridiculous price to match what it "apparently" sold for previously.

I have never had an unpaid item, the auctions ended at reasonable prices I was willing to pay.

As for inflating prices, if nobody buys at those prices they will come down. The high price may even attract more sellers to sell on. Result would still be a general drop in price. The price is only sustained by buyers willing to pay.

[Matt16]

I've never tried one of these before, I must have been living in a cave actually as I didn't know they existed

I've added an item to that Gixen that Lord Swift suggested so will see how I do

If it doesn't work I'll have to find the Swift fella

[SwiftDeath]

Originally Posted by Matt16

I've never tried one of these before, I must have been living in a cave actually as I didn't know they existed

I've added an item to that Gixen that Lord Swift suggested so will see how I do

I was aware of them for quite a while before I started looking for them but assumed they'd be overly expensive and pretty much everyone besides gixen tends to nickel and dime you. 1% of total sale + 5 cents a transaction etc.

Regular gixen is free

Mirror (Premium) is $6 a year which is still a great deal although haven't done it yet myself

Originally Posted by Matt16

If it doesn't work I'll have to find the Swift fella

Good luck me

Nah I've never had a problem with gixen that wasn't my own fault

Sometimes I bid too low (but that has its own merits ), sometimes I fail to check if I can actually bid on it in the first place (i.e. US ebayers can bid etc.)

[LyricalOne]

Originally Posted by HIPPEEDUDE

Often theres at least one bidder in the war that doesnt want it anymore but they will make sure as hell the other bidder is going to pay stupid money for it.

Not gonna lie, I still like the fun of the good old manual snipping, it's the thrill of hunt

And I am that bidder who knows won't win the item, but I'll still bid for the hell of making the winner pay more than they bargained for.
I mean there is one way at least that you make sure you don't overbid the top bidder

But with connections messing up at the "right" time and others using sniping, I too have thought about using one (although I haven't yet)

[SwiftDeath]

So a couple of people said they'd try out a sniping service based on this thread

Any thoughts from those who did?

Dislike anything I suggest to be less than helpful

[Matt16]

Originally Posted by SwiftDeath

So a couple of people said they'd try out a sniping service based on this thread

Any thoughts from those who did?

Dislike anything I suggest to be less than helpful

I only used it for item and that was removed before the auction end so didn't get to see the sniper is action

I'll try again on a couple of other things I'm watching

[CanisCanemEdit]

I'm practically an insomniac and when I do sleep, I sleep fairly light. I have always manually sniped my auctions. I knew of these services, but wasn't sure of the reliability.

I have experienced the frustration of trying to buy something and my connection dropping out on me. I tried to bid on an item via my phone while at a theme park and stupid network or interference blocked me. I was so damn pissed off.


Ok, I will try this out and let you know. To echo something mentioned here, if it doesn't work, will have to look for a swift fellow as well.