Email Notification Regarding Low Bids

Things have seemed to run a little slower than usual recently, Chemist, but my personal advice is NOT to expect, anticipate, or even desire an outbid notice. The whole point to sniping is NOT to set an incremental bid, like the nibblers do, but to set an absolute maximum, since you only get one chance to bid.

If you are willing to up your snipe, and even more of you are depending on an AS outbid alert to do that, then you are not bidding your max. Decide what you will spend and stick with that one snipe. Even if AS is not running slow, if someone bids late in the auction (not necssarily a sniper, just a late bid), chances are you would not get the message in time. Later on you may regret if you did not bid your max.

Has your email address changed? You're supposed to be getting them. Sign in, click the Modify Account link just below the My Snipes tab and then see what email address we have on file for you.

Oh and the other thing is during the first few days we only check once a day. Then during about the last 2 days we start checking more often.

If your bid doesnt get passed up by someone else until like 20-30 minutes left you probably wont get an email.

Thank you both for that information and advice.

I know what I will and will not bid. If an auction is running in the low numbers, so much the better for me, I will not enter a snipe at my max bid. No sense me paying more than it is worth. I have done a little "nibbling" over the past months and have a general idea what people place over the current bid. I try to get just a little ahead of that.

On the other hand, if there were something I most definitely had-to-have, I would just enter my max and leave it.

Thanks again.

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Originally posted by TheChemist:

I know what I will and will not bid. If an auction is running in the low numbers, so much the better for me, I will not enter a snipe at my max bid. No sense me paying more than it is worth.

Thanks again.

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I think you still miss my point. If you truly "know what [you] will and will not bid," then why would you need to raise your snipe amount? If you bid, say, $50 on the item and the next highest bid is $30, then you will win the item for $31. You bid does not go up to $50 just because you bid that amount; it simply goes to one increment above the next-highest bid of $30.

Regardless of how you may determine the dollar value of an item (a highly subjective process), when you snipe, there is really no point to changing your snipe amount, especially if you have already decided in advance the most you are willing to pay.