Hey you Ebay experts!!

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by djcazpa

Did the item have a reserve on it??? I sell and buy on ebay what some people like me do is look at the price which it is at... for the last few mins of the item you bid small amounts checking to see wether the other bidder has got a small max bid if you cant break it you get set up with the highest price your willing to pay and hold your mouse over the confirm botton waiting for it to get to 3 secounds then click then by the time it gets to 1 its confirmed and its kinda hit n miss wether you bet the last person or not... anyways if the item didnt have a reserve this is most likly how it happened... I know this because its an excellent tactic but highly frustrating when it bites you back

I kind of thought about that but the problem is that the price doesent start moving untill the last 5 seconds. There is no way humanly possible to move from 15 dollars to 32 dollars in 5 seconds making small bids.

If you check the sniping link that is exactly what they recomend to start the sniping at .. 5 seconds before bid end.

Wonder what ebays policy is on this or if they even care.

[SteamWake]

Found an interesting article on the topic. It seems Ebay holds a neutral stance.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...-of-ebay_x.htm

[AVGWarhawk]

$4.5 billion...of course they have neutral stance. They get theirs sniped or not!

[djcazpa]

hmm it seems a bit annoying that a computer can bid.. i see the logic and also see how it is really annoying.. but at the same time would this methord of worked if a high enough maxinum bid had been place. because kinda the same thing happens for example: you find an item its £10... now you hold on because 1 person has bid... u wait until last few mins then you place a bid.... bang uv bin outbid.. you place anougher...bang you've bin outbid again and this goes on up to £20 and now the product ends but no mater what you bid you lost... why because the other person set a higher maxinum bid for the ebay computers to add on than what you were biding... this bidding for that person is done by ebays own computers... which i.e means they cant take an enemy stance at this because ater you bid you set your max price and ebay computer bids for you in seconds much the same as that snip website except the snip website waits till the last moment instead of early... its annoying but one of them things that is covered by the rules I think it should be like a real auction tho.. no max bid or anything and starts at a certain time and lasts till bidding stops

[JScones]

I've no problem with sniping - at the end of the day it's the highest bid that wins, no matter when it was made.

I do it, both manually and automatically (with the aid of a software program). I win more and I save more money, because I'm not getting into bidding wars throughout the seven days with novice bidders who just drive the price up to ridiculous levels (some seem to take bidding as a personal affront).

There was a time when sniping was considered by many as immoral...nowadays it's more and more common; I find most auctions I bid on have some form of price hike in the last 8 seconds.

[Wolfehunter]

I used to be registered to ebay years ago before there massive policy change. I've herd they've gotten worse with there policy. Ebay isn't what they used to be.

I didn't accept there changes. They closed my account with them.. That fine by me..

[Reece]

Been ebaying for a few years now, my wife has a shop and all, yes bidding is quite a nack, we usually get 90% of what we bid on well within the range we want! Our star rating is over 1000 at 100%

[Platapus]

Ebay used to be a fun place to find good stuff. But the sniping (of which I only object to the automated sniper) took a lot of the fun out of it.

Has Ebay fixed their search engine? It used to really suck.