High Bidders Who Overbid on Ebay?

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by Sean

A snipe is when you wait until the last few seconds, then jump in with one large bid. That way no one else has a chance to answer with a higher bid of their own.

Of course it only works if somebody else doesn't have the same idea with a higher snipe

When two snipes collide it usuall ends in disaster for one of the parties involved, lol.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

So you have to sit there and do it? Can you set it up to snipe?

[JollyElm]

One reason for increasing your maximum bid is to simply add more bids to the tally. This could make people who stumble upon the auction react, "Geez, a lot of people are bidding on this one. Maybe I'll sit it out." In other words, it could be an attempt to scare potential bidders away, especially those who only see the number of bids and don't investigate further.

[Sean]

I have to sit at the computer and make a bid with about 8 seconds to go in the auction. There are people here who are much more experienced than me, so maybe they know of some way to set up a program to snipe. I can't help with that.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Sean

I have to sit at the computer and make a bid with about 8 seconds to go in the auction. There are people here who are much more experienced than me, so maybe they know of some way to set up a program to snipe. I can't help with that.

There are services that will do it for some small fee.

I've always done it manually. With a fast connection I can get within the last 5 seconds or so, closer if I don't get anxious.

Besides, if I used a service and bid on everything I wanted I'd be broke in an hour.

I don't usually look at bidding patterns. I used to on bike parts because there were a couple japanese bidders that I knew I could never outspend. I finally saw a couple pictures of one of those collections. Impressive, but not as impressive as a 2 car garage in Tokyo. Bikes on one side nice car on the other, Ferrari on the lift above the first car.

A group of minimal bids in a row wouldn't be intimidating, or really all that interesting. The ones I worry about are the lone low bid in the first few days with a followup by the same bidder the next day. That usually lets me know that someone else has spotted the same thing I have (Usually a stamp with an expensive variety that wasn't listed as such) And that they've looked it up - That means I probably won't win it cheap.

Steve B

[CW]

http://www.gavelsnipe.com/index.php

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

So you have to sit there and do it? Can you set it up to snipe?

Alex, There's several good 3rd party software that does this. - Paul

[Ease]

Originally Posted by Shoele$$

Of course it only works if somebody else doesn't have the same idea with a higher snipe

When two snipes collide it usuall ends in disaster for one of the parties involved, lol.

This has happened to me once, when I was collecting modern cards. I was putting together a player collection of former Tennessee Titan TE Ben Troupe and pretty much the whole season had been duking it out over the 1/1's and low numbered cards with a Florida Gator collector (this was when you could see ebay id's). When the card pictured below came up on ebay, I was going to win it at all costs, I thought maybe 200-250$ would get it. I set my snipe for something ridiculous like 700$, wouldn't you know that Florida collector did the same damn thing. Unfortunately I won it for something like 500$ Hard to explain to my ex-gf that I'd spent 500 on a card, that's one of the reasons she's my ex I'd be lucky to get ten bucks for it today, Ben's probably working construction somewhere now...