Hey you Ebay experts!!

SteamWake · 03-10-10, 10:32 AM

Tell me how in the heck they do that?

I put a maximum bid of 30.50 on an item that was currently priced at 17 bucks.

I sat and watched 1 min out ... no change, 30 seconds out, no change, 5 seconds out no change (now I'm getting excited) 2 seconds out I see the price jump to 20 (woot I still have it !) 1 second to go BOOM 31.00 .. sorry you lost the bid

Now I could chalk it up to just bad luck or some such but this has happened to me not once not twice but at least on 4 seperate occasions if not more.

In the last second of the bidding I will get beat by a dollar

VipertheSniper · 03-10-10, 10:48 AM

bots maybe?

FIREWALL · 03-10-10, 11:04 AM

That's why I buy on Amazon. Usally cheaper and has Super Saver free shipping.

SteamWake · 03-10-10, 11:29 AM

It's hard to find circa 1950 radio equipment on amazon

AVGWarhawk · 03-10-10, 11:38 AM

Dis true SW. People will sit in the last seconds watching and keep on bidding hoping to get the last bid in. This time the bid went over yours in the last few seconds. Bummer.....

SteamWake · 03-10-10, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Dis true SW. People will sit in the last seconds watching and keep on bidding hoping to get the last bid in. This time the bid went over yours in the last few seconds. Bummer.....

No it cant be just that... its happened to me several times now in the last few seconds get beat by 1 dollar. They have to be using some sort of automated thing because the 'base bid' does not change untill the last three seconds and there is no way I can respond in that time frame.

I could see if it was based at 15 bucks and I bid say 20 someone might slip in the other 5 bucks at the last second but to go from 17 bucks to 32 bucks in a matter of 3 seconds

and espically when they seem to know precisly how much to beat me by a stinking dollar time and time again.

03-10-10, 10:32 AM	#1
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Hey you Ebay experts!! Tell me how in the heck they do that? I put a maximum bid of 30.50 on an item that was currently priced at 17 bucks. I sat and watched 1 min out ... no change, 30 seconds out, no change, 5 seconds out no change (now I'm getting excited) 2 seconds out I see the price jump to 20 (woot I still have it !) 1 second to go BOOM 31.00 .. sorry you lost the bid Now I could chalk it up to just bad luck or some such but this has happened to me not once not twice but at least on 4 seperate occasions if not more. In the last second of the bidding I will get beat by a dollar __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

03-10-10, 11:04 AM	#3
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	That's why I buy on Amazon. Usally cheaper and has Super Saver free shipping. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

03-10-10, 11:29 AM	#4
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	It's hard to find circa 1950 radio equipment on amazon __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

03-10-10, 11:38 AM	#5
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Dis true SW. People will sit in the last seconds watching and keep on bidding hoping to get the last bid in. This time the bid went over yours in the last few seconds. Bummer..... __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-10-10, 10:48 AM	#2
VipertheSniper Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Austria Posts: 1,071 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	bots maybe?