max bid, proxy bid. whatever. newbie in need of help. my auction ends tomorrow

given no other bids, your snipe bid would be 52.50.

Auction Sniper will send eBay your $100.00 maximum bid, but in the case described, the high bid will jump to $52.00.

Thanks,
Adam R.
A/S

Adam R.,

In the hypothetical case described, wouldn't his/her high bid jump to $52.50?

Neva

Yeah, it would jump to the next minimum. Which is somewhere around there. You're probably right saying that its $52.50.

Adam R.

Adam R.,

Well, sum1else had theorized that the bid increment would be $2.50 at that level. But I personally have no idea what the bid increment is at that level since I've never spent THAT much on any one item! haha

Neva

I thought I'd try to get more info after reading y'alls posts about bid increments....I've had a few auctions that I didn't win.. ..and so I went to eBay Help and found the chart...and more important(at least to me)the bid increment increases as the bid price increases.. ..like Neva,I don't usually bid on high priced items,but we sure need to be aware that our max bid may not be quite enough.....Bid increment is $0.50/current high bid of $5.00-24.99 & $1.00/current high bid of $25.00-99.99..& $2.50/current high bid of $100.00-249.99.......

I think it is possible to win with a bid that is less that the bid increment. Someone won an auction from me by $.02 even though the bid increment was $1.00 or something. E-bay does have some type of explanation for this which is very confusing. But it is possible (For example, I was high bidder at $50, and my maximum proxy bid was $72.00, someone sniped me with $72.02, and when the auction closed that bidder was considered the winner).

as a very newbie, I hope I understood the discussion here.

They bid before you did. That is the only way for them to win by 2 cents. Bidding before you using eBay proxy bidding. It's not possible sniping. Unless they also sniped before you.

That is where some of the beauty of when to place your snipe comes into play. I sometimes do my snipe at about 30 seconds on items I know will end within about a $1 range. i.e. DVD's. They always end near the same price. I snipe at 30 seconds knowing the next sniper will have to bid at least one increment higher than me. If I guess I win, and maybe save 25-50 cents or so. Mainly it's just that I win.

The same can be done for pricier items, but it's a little harder to know what price the item will end at. If you are good though and can guess within a bid increment then maybe try sniping earlier and forcing the other sniper to have a bid one increment above yours.

Jayolsen writes, "The same can be done for pricier items, but it's a little harder to know what price the item will end at. If you are good though and can guess within a bid increment then maybe try sniping earlier and forcing the other sniper to have a bid one increment above yours."

You can get an idea by checking out the bid profile of the current high bidder. Just go to eBay Search, select "By Bidder" and enter the high bidder's username in the window, being sure to click on the little round window that says "Yes" for closed auctions. Study the results by looking at the bidding record for a few of the person's successful bids and getting an idea of how close to the end of the auction the guy or gal bids, and by how much of an increment. People don't know it, but they get stuck in bidding patterns that are really simple to uncover and use against them.

jayolson

No, the bid came after mine. The situation was that I was high bidder with $50 or so and my maximum bid was $72.00. A sniper bid $72.02 at the last minute and beat my maximum bid by $.02. Really. I am assuming that the $72.02 was a lucky guess, these are pretty much one of a kind collectibles and while you might be able to see patterns, in most cases I think it would be difficult.

See my post with the e-bay explanation for this. I was not sniping or trying to snipe at the time, but I was watching and it was a snipe long after my bid. It was quite a shock to see it go from $50 to 72.02 at the last minute. the beauty of sniping!

Kay

$52.50