I must be sniper stupid! Please Help!

Mason,

You need to read up on proxy bidding (http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/proxy-bidding.html) AND bid increments (http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bid-increments.html).

Rick, thank you for the reply and after reading that I figured thats how it was suppost to work but I still don't understand how an item, say if there is only one bid for "whatever" 10.00 as a current price and I have a snipe for 30.00 if no one else ever bids it again, Auction Sniper always just puts in my highest max bid, 30.00 at the closing of the auction. The history of the item will show.

Me $30.00 02/14/07 1002hrs.
John doe $10.00 02/14/07 1000hrs.

Mason,

In your example, the ONLY way the bid history would show a jump from $10 to $30 (ebay’s bid increment is 50 cents at $10 and not $20) is on an auction with a reserve of $30.

Just for kicks, how about posting a link to an auction that provides an example of what you are questioning in this topic.

Rick, thanks for the help here are just a few and I have lost every one of them my user id is "Freemason73"

http://offer.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170073040594

http://offer.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=120080122662

http://offer.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=150089434728

http://offer.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=180082433547

Mason,

1st auction - In case of a tie, first bid wins. Had your snipe been a second or two earlier, you would have won.

2nd auction - You lost by less then an increment, which is a fairly difficult thing to understand about ebay. But, on the link about bid increments you’ll see, “Note: A bidder may be outbid by less than a full increment. This would happen if the winning bidder's maximum bid beats the second highest maximum by an amount less than the full increment.” Had your bid been $25.78, you would have won.

3rd auction – You lost by “AT LEAST” one bid increment. The winning bid was probably more then $51.

4th auction – You lost by “AT LEAST” one bid increment. The winning bid was probably more then $31.


In none of the auctions that you listed did you lose by more then 1 ebay increment.

The title you used for this thread was, “I must be sniper stupid!” Sniping is influencing nothing that has been discussed in this thread. Proxy bidding and increments are controlling the outcome. Had all the bids (including the snipes) been placed a day or several hours earlier, the results would have been the same.

I would still recommend that you read/study the link above about proxy bidding. Until you understand how that works, ebay will be a mystery.

And read the forums - if you had you'd know that bidding whole numbers is frowned upon by the majority. Add a few cents then, in the event of a tie(as per your first auction), you will win!

As RICK says this 'problem' is down to ebay's proxy bidding system and increments - read up on them and you'll be as good as he is!

R2

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