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Morning everyone
Being a Newbie i have a few questions
If anyone can assist
THANK YOU
1. If i use sniper on an item and there is ANOTHER bidder using sniper WHO will win the actual auction?
2. If i put a maximum amount of say £10.00 and just before close the price is say £2.00 with a bid increment of say 50p does sniper make my bid £2.50 providing NO ONE else bids on the item?
3. Does sniper take a percentage of the actual WIN amount or the maximum amount i enter?

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"1. If i use sniper on an item and there is ANOTHER bidder using sniper WHO will win the actual auction?" This brings up recent memories, but who ever has the highest bid.

"2. If i put a maximum amount of say £10.00 and just before close the price is say £2.00 with a bid increment of say 50p does sniper make my bid £2.50 providing NO ONE else bids on the item?" The bid increment at that range is .25, at least in the U.S.

"3. Does sniper take a percentage of the actual WIN amount or the maximum amount i enter?" WIN amount.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
but you haven't answered his question 2 (oh and BTW I mean "guys" as a non-gender specific descripton").

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2. If i put a maximum amount of say £10.00 and just before close the price is say £2.00 with a bid increment of say 50p does sniper make my bid £2.50 providing NO ONE else bids on the item?


The answer is that AS bids £10.00. eBay then processes the bid results and assuming that your bid is higher than the proxy bid of the previous high bidder (and no-one else bids in the meantime), you will win and the price will be the lower of (a) £10.00 and (b) the actual amount of the previous high bidder's bid plus one increment.

At the time you bid, you have no way of knowing (except in certain special cases) how much the previous high bidder has actually bid. It is the lower of (a) the amount he actually bid and (b) the previous high bidder's actual bid plus one increment.

The only circumstances in which you will know how much he bid before the aucton closes are (i) you have been watching the auction and the high bid goes up by less than one increment or (ii) you have been bidding and the high bid is less than one increment above the amount you bid.

The bid increment on eBay UK at this level is 20p. Here's the table (from http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/bid-increments.html):

Current Price Bid Increment

£0.01 - £1.00 £0.05
£1.01 - £5.00 £0.20
£5.01 - £15.00 £0.50
£15.01 - £60.00 £1.00
£60.01 - £150.00 £2.00
£150.01 - £300.00 £5.00
£300.01 - £600.00 £10.00
£600.01 - £1,500.00 £20.00
£1,500.01 - £3,000.00 £50.00
and up £100.00


The eBay.com table is at http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bid-increments.html and is a little different:

Current Price Bid Increment
$ 0.01 - $ 0.99 $ 0.05
$ 1.00 - $ 4.99 $ 0.25
$ 5.00 - $ 24.99 $ 0.50
$ 25.00 - $ 99.99 $ 1.00
$ 100.00 - $ 249.99 $ 2.50
$ 250.00 - $ 499.99 $ 5.00
$ 500.00 - $ 999.99 $ 10.00
$1000.00 - $2499.99 $ 25.00
$2500.00 - $4999.99 $ 50.00
$5000.00 and up $100.00
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Originally posted by Rick:
How about the implications of Son of Sam? Both of you are better at this then I am.


Ahem. I am not going to go into that gunky issue. And I dispute the assertion that followed.

Sam, to put it succinctly, AS simply bids on eBay on your behalf. And according to eBay, you win the auction by only the amount necessary. If you bid $10.00 on an item whose next highest bid is $5, then you win for $5.25. That is how eBay works. Red Face
Sam;

If it's the same amount, then who ever has the longest lead time will have their snipe placed, thus winning.

From AS' faq:
What if two or more people snipe the same items at the same time?

Although the probability of this happening is very small, we have developed our software to give bidders an equal chance of winning in all possible cases.

For example: If two bidders are sniping on the same item with the same max bid, and both choose to snipe with just 5 seconds left -- our bidding system will send eBay both bids at the same time.

The rest is up to eBay. The winner will be the bid that eBay received first. We do not have control over which eBay servers we send to, and therefore cannot pre-determine who will win.


Good luck sniping. Cool
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