bid group timing

This may help:

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Also, there's "click heres" in the that "click here".

15 seconds is plenty.

Just be sure to use a 5 second lead time so that we'll have enough time to see if you won before we place the second and third bids in your bid group.

If the items were 15 seoncs apart and you used a 14 second lead time that would only give us 1 second to figure out if you won or not and we probably couldnt do it that quickly and so we'd have to cancel the bid on the second item. But then we could do the bid on the third.

Hopefully that's what the "click heres" say.

Thanks, will let you know results when bids are sent running 18,17,18,and another 18 seconds apart with a 5 second lead.
Bob

Robert N Hardesty

I waited for results of 5 identical items in bid group with the 18 second gaps but the first 4 were taken with "buy it now" and I won the fifth for 10% less, strange. Anyway I'll just wait for someone else to post or myself. Good sniping!

Robert N Hardesty

Thanks for letting us know how it worked out.

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Originally posted by olopbob:
I waited for results of 5 identical items in bid group with the 18 second gaps but the first 4 were taken with "buy it now" and I won the fifth for 10% less, strange.

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ebay is a very, very STRANGE place - at least the bidding habits (addictions) of some buyers. After all, where else do you see something called a "nibbler" trying to buy something.

Rick, if I may rant. I've never seen many things get out of whack as quickly as Ebay has in last year. Total lobotomy of personality and as well as the friendly one to one dealing. You can buy a book on Ebay to teach you how to scam on Ebay, ironic. It seems like the whole thing just got corrupted.
I just use A/S to avoid the hassle anymore, get in get out. Like Ron Popeele says "just set and forget it".

Robert N Hardesty

Robert,

Sniping is the most rational way to purchase items on ebay (other then BIN's). I don't know what to think when someone places over 5 (let alone 20) proxy bids (nibbles) on the same item.

But, why do you say "in the last year"?

Rick, it just seems like in 2002 if I asked a seller a question I got a hi, how are you, shipping is ****** thanks, and some personal feedback. Now in the last year I'm getting - 12.99, no hi or bye, just a "quit wasting my time attitude". That's one reason I keep a long list of favorite sellers. By the way I've never nibbled but it seems counter productive. They probably have the large refresh icon.

Robert N Hardesty

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Originally posted by olopbob:
That's one reason I keep a long list of favorite sellers.

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I also, along with a long list of my unfavorite sellers.

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Originally posted by olopbob:
By the way I've never nibbled but it seems counter productive.

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VERY counter productive.

...unless, of course, you're nibbling up the proxy of the deep-pocketed guy who's beat you out on the last four items, just to make sure he doesn't get TOO good of a deal...

But that would be too close to shill bidding, and we'd NEVER condone anything like that!

(but I can dream, can't I?)