Today is my first day in this snip. I lost 2 bids.There is some one bid after me. This guy bid more higher than me 1 us$ on both 2 items. Why? and How? I set lease time to 5 sec. Is it too much? Do I need to set time lease to 2 sec?
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It's not the last bid that wins, it's the highest. I guess the other person was also a sniper so you would have lost anyway. Always bid your highest, lead time of 8 secs is best and always add a few cents/pence so that you win in a tie. Read the FAQs on the AS help tab and read up on Proxy Bidding on ebay's help...
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lost again...same thing happend. the item price is 66 US$ until 5 sec before bid end I snip with 70 US$. The same thing happend another guy won bid with 71 US$.I Think if I snip with 75 US$ the same thing will happend. Another guy will win bid with 76 US$. what's thing I have to do? the price is only 66 US$ Do I have to snip with 200 US$ or 6000 US$? to garrantee I'm the winner
You were beaten by a higher bidder!
BTW - You snip with scissors, you snipe with Auctionsniper!
You need to research your market - a nuclear bid of 1,000,000 will always win but you'll be in trouble if you're up against someone who went 500,000!!! So use ebay's history to see what things are worth and bid/snipe accordingly!
Don't bid whole figures - 70.05 will win against someone who bids 70.00
You are just being beaten by higher snipes so, armed with your new research, bid your new, learned max and wait for the win!
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BTW - You snip with scissors, you snipe with Auctionsniper!
You need to research your market - a nuclear bid of 1,000,000 will always win but you'll be in trouble if you're up against someone who went 500,000!!! So use ebay's history to see what things are worth and bid/snipe accordingly!
Don't bid whole figures - 70.05 will win against someone who bids 70.00
You are just being beaten by higher snipes so, armed with your new research, bid your new, learned max and wait for the win!
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quote:Do I have to snip with 200 US$ or 6000 US$? to garrantee I'm the winner
Why would you want to guarantee that you are the winner? Besides, you can never guarantee that you will win. Sniping merely guarantees that if you are the highest bidder, you will never pay more than one bid increment above the second highest bidder. Set your snipe amount at the maximum you are willing to pay. If someone outbids you (and the bids that have beaten you were probably proxy bids - someone who has set a proxy bid uses eBay's proxy system to automatically raise the bid above the next highest bidder), that's how auctions work.
Sure, you could bid a million dollars for something, but maybe the other person is willing to pay more. Or, even worse, what if they're willing to pay only up to one bid increment below a million, than you'd be obligated to pay a million -- imagine if another person also put in slightly under a million using your theory that he/she was trying to guarantee a win. If two people use that theory, one of them is really screwed.
Just snipe with your maximum. If you lose, you lose, but at least you'll never pay more than you're willing to pay.