I think some sellers are becoming wise to auction sniper (more)

How many seconds from first to last ?

Had this seller offered one auction with "5 available" I would be in PERFECT shape.

Put the auction that ends first, the auction that sells third and the auction that sells last in a bid group. AS needs at least 30 seconds between auctions to determine if you've won. If you don't feel comfortable doing that then just put the first and last in the bid group. Then you have two shots at winning.

I wouldn't try to guess which auction will get the lowest bids because you just never know how high they'll go until the end. Good luck with it!

You're right, I think that's a little to close to use a bid group, but might work for only the first and last. It's been suggested 20 seconds is enough time to verify a loss on the first and bid on the next in a bid group, but I've seen it fail.

Not saying this is the 'right' way to go, but this is what <I> would do.

Look at auction 5-10 min before close, and toss out the highest (someone wants THAT one) and toss out the lowest (other late bidders will choose that one to bid on). Of the remaining, toss out the ones over your max and bid on the first or second to end.

If the seller has 5 for auction, maybe he has more. If you lose, email and ask for a 'second chance offer'. To go this route, you must have at least one valid bid on the auction, but don't need to hold the winning bid.

Let us know what you decide, and how it turns out.

Good Luck !

The total duration between the 1st and last is 22 seconds. You mention another feature that meeds 30 seconds between auctions, there is only 22 seconds in my situation.

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Pay particular attention to Sara's (AS support) response.

posted June 11, 2002 12:07 AM by SARA
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I talked to the programmer and you should be able to do snipes for bidgroups at: lead time + 1 second. So with only 3 seconds between snipes you can do a 2 or 1 second lead time on the second auction to end.

So as long as you have a very short lead time on the auctions it will work. I guess in this case 1-2 seconds would work.

Really though there isn't a great solution for auctions ending this closely together. The best solution would be for any seller not to list their auctions so closely together. Most dont though.

If you want to try it and see what happens I'll give you a couple free snipes for reporting back with the results...
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This is the bid group tutorial:
http://www.auctionsniper.com/bidgroup.aspx

Now, after all that...I say, you will have to take your chances!!

It's my understanding that AS will NOT place a snipe in a bid group until it has confirmation as to whether the prior snipe was successful (omitting the confirmation on the first snipe). So, the worse that will happen if there isn't enough time will be that you don't get any.

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Originally posted by bringthehogs:
I think some sellers are becoming wise to auction sniper

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I would suggest that sellers are becoming wise to "manual" snipers. A manual sniper couldn't respond that fast. The only way for sellers to "block" AS would be to have identical closing times.

That is exaxctly what I understand also, Rick! Thanks!

Rick,

Thank you.

Rick

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The total duration between the 1st and last is 22 seconds.

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Sorry, I mistook it for 22 seconds between each separate auction. The seller is probably using that feature ebay now has where you can pre-set your auction starting time.

WHen I list things such as scooter parts, I just start clicking one after another and this might look as though I was trying to keep you from sniping in a bid group, when it is not intentional.

I'm new. I don't really understand why sellers would NOT want people sniping. As a seller, I actually like it. That means there is at least one more bid to drive the price up right before the auction ends.

Sellers like a bidding war and sniping prevents that from taking place. I recently watched two people bid my £5 item up to £62 - if either/both were snipers then I would have missed the fun and the price might have been lower. That's the only argument against it as far as I can tell!

R2

Oh, I get it now. Thanks! (I'm a little new to selling as well as to auction sniper.)

I'd say it'd be safe to at least put the 1st,3rd, and 5th into a bid group. Although even all 5 might work.

I'd do all 5 - it just might work...

R2