At the risk of sounding ungrateful*, do you have a yes/no answer?? :-)Jdsk wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 10:09amAuction sniping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_sniping
Jonathan
*I promise, I am grateful!
At the risk of sounding ungrateful*, do you have a yes/no answer?? :-)Jdsk wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 10:09amAuction sniping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_sniping
Jonathan
Yebbut! whilst in the death throws of an auction, presumably one wouldn't have shown one's interest up to this point, so if an item had bids up to £100, highest bid by bidder A, and with 5 secs to go you place a bid for £120, there is NO guarantee that A) Bidder A hasn't already bid up to £150, or a sniper will come in, or another bidder comes in a second after you. Luck of the draw really, ''you win some, you lo.....''Jezrant wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 10:18amSniping software is cleverer than the punters who think they can outgame the system by frantically upping their maximum bid in the final moments of the auction.mattheus wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 10:07amThat was my understanding, too. I only use eBay now for BUY IT NOW items, as I can't be bothered with all this ...
but back-in-the-day I remember telling eBay my MAX BID, then walking away, knowing I didn't WANT to pay more than that. (maybe I'll get the item, maybe I won't because someone was willing to pay more). And you couldn't outbid me by a penny to "win " the game, as eBay had a minimum "raise" (as would any sensible real world auction room).
So now I've made it clear that I am decades behind the times ...
Are folk here saying that the current Sniping Software is cleverer than eBay's inbuilt feature? IAMFI :-)
Yes but is it’s bid so late that EBay’s automated bid hasn’t time to work? I doubt it.
Exactly this. I've no sympathy for someone complaining they've been outbid by a sniper. If that happens, it means you didn't bid what you were willing to pay, and that's not the fault of anyone else.pjclinch wrote: ↑11 Mar 2024, 5:37pm We'll, quite. I've not had any trouble deciding how high I'm willing to go and putting that in. However late other bids are, if they're lower than my maximum I'll still get it and if they're higher then they get it because they're higher.
If you can't decide how high you'll go then I'd suggest it might be just as well if you don't have time to raise after a late bid!
Pete.
A rather unfortunate juxtaposition of images I fear.simonineaston wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 5:17pm Imagine the smart left by the crushing sweaty sensation that what you thought was going to be a stonking great bargain has been whipped from between your very fingers ! It is like I saw the other day, which was my local sparrow hawk , removing in a trice, the coal tit from the nut feeder…. BHOOOOFFFFFF it went, leaving nothing but a puff of tiny feathers… oh dear
It's not that it's smarter than eBay's inbuilt feature - sniping software is smarter than eBay's human users.
It's worth saying that sniping software wouldn't work with all auction sites.
Are you sure they want to win it? What's to stop a seller using a second account to force the price ever upwards?deeferdonk wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 11:29am More perplexing to me is when you see a couple of other bidders have a bit of a bidding war when there's still a week/ages left on the auction, driving up the price early on. Why don't you just wait till closer to the end and/or put your max bid in?
Windows 10, only e-BayYes
What operating system?
And are you only interested in eBay, or in other auction sites as well?
Shill bidding, as it's called, is quite prevalent on eBay, which doesn't seem to do much to control it (by repute)st599_uk wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 1:01pmAre you sure they want to win it? What's to stop a seller using a second account to force the price ever upwards?deeferdonk wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 11:29am More perplexing to me is when you see a couple of other bidders have a bit of a bidding war when there's still a week/ages left on the auction, driving up the price early on. Why don't you just wait till closer to the end and/or put your max bid in?