Ebay Magic

J. Neilson

J. Neilson

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OK, where do I get that magic Ebay program? You know the one the outbids folks at the last 20 seconds. I'm getting so sick of being outbid in the last minute of a auction. I know it's out there somewhere. :mad:
 
i didnt no there was such a thing!!!! no wonder ive been out bid on like the last second :mad: I had a brand new comp for like 200 bucks :mad:
 
Holy Cow. I hear you jonvalblades. I figured there might be but, I didn't know it was a common thing. That's what you get for not being a computer guy in this day and age, I guess. Not that I'm exactly living in this day and age. ;) Thanks guys I'll try to figure these out. maybe I can finally blow same paypal savings. :D
 
J. I don't use a program. I have dsl so if you have dial up this probably won't work. I have two pages of the same auction open. On the one page I put my bid and click submit. Then you sign in or of you are already signed in you have to click a second time to submit. But whichever, I have it ready to place the bid and with the other open page I keep refreshing the auction. I usually refresh down to 5-10 seconds before I click submit on the other page. The only time I ever get sniped is if there are others bidding at the same time with a higher amount. Just make sure you bid as high as you want because you won't have time to re-submit a bid
 
Hey Trick, I thought about trying this but, I'm on top of nowhere mountain with frozen molasses dail-up...... :rolleyes:
 
It's called sniping and it's great -- for they buyer.
I use Hammersnipe.com
I'm not sure how much it has saved me but I know it has saved me tons of cash. You will miss a bid now and then when you think you are going to really steal a deal and you set your bid unrealistically too low. It also helps you by taking some of the emotion out of it.
 
J. Neilson said:
Hey Trick, I thought about trying this but, I'm on top of nowhere mountain with frozen molasses dail-up...... :rolleyes:
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Use one of the mroe efficient web-browsers and disable some graphics features for the time being - pics take up most bandwidth (as do some external contents which one unfortunately cannot avoid sometimes) but even a disal-up should be fast enough to allow you to do that.
 
Tracy is right - taking the emotion out of the process will save you more money than anything. I've used AuctionStealer for a couple of years and really like it. 10 seconds hasn't always been close enough but I seldom find anything I just have to have...and when I really want something I just bid accordingly.
 
I find sniping programs useless and not worth the time.

I usually wait until near the end to place a bid on many auctions. Sometimes I do not. The thing I never do though is go over a certain price either way. If you place a snipe bid with 1 second left that's lower than the other 3874 snipe bids place with 2 seconds left, you still lose!

I bid what I'm willing to pay. Period. It costs me nothing, it saves me nothing.
 
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