Newbie... bidding question

Hey cat, I think you've missed the point! AS bids as if it was you. So set the max you want to pay (add a few cents/pence as 180.03 is better than 180) and leave it! AS will bid as if it was you at your max. Read the AS FAQs and eBay's help on proxy bidding to find out what will happen next. Do not manually bid on the item!

R2

Gotcha... but since I HAVE already bid manually on the item... does this mess up everything?

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since I HAVE already bid manually on the item... does this mess up everything?

Nope! Not really. Ebay's proxy system won't let you bid against yourself (unless your winning bid is less than 1 full bid increment more than the second highest bidder). The only negative is if your manual bid ends up being the high bid and winning the auction i.e. your snipe was not needed, AS will still place the snipe and you will be charged for that snipe, just as if your snipe is what won the auction for you. No biggie -- you could just consider the snipe in this case as "insurance".

Snipers typically DON'T place a manual bid on auctions they snipe. They place ONE bid, their max, within the last few moments of an auction. Hence, the informal motto, "One snipe, one win!"

Crap... I got outbid! Do I re-bid on the auction or leave it alone and let AS do it for me? Auction ends tonight.

(Sorry, I'm not normally clueless as this... after this auction I'll know what's up)

Thanks!

Ahhhh..... now I think I get it ... so it's good that I just got outbid, so AS can snipe for me when it's almost over.

So, next time I wanna bid on something, I don't do it via Ebay, just do it via AS only. Correct?

You got it. You'll read this thread in weeks to come and say to yourself 'Oh my gawd!'

And remember, it's not the last bid that wins, it's the highest. So bid your max (via AS) and walk away!

R2

Thanks! Yeah... I remember asking someone "what's reserve mean" when I first started Ebay years ago. Silly grasshopper...