On 3/16/07, Rick Funderburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You have the basic bidding strategy down. Bid as late as possible the
amount you are willing to pay (called sniping). Use a program like
JBidWatcher to bid for you in the last 10 seconds.
In theory, it shouldn't matter when you bid, as eBay has automatic bidding
up to the maximum you are willing to pay. In practice, people get caught up
in the emotional desire to win, so their maximum inflates as their bids are
countered.
To answer Lan's remark "someone has bested me by a buck". That is the
eBay automatic bidding engine, which increases the competing bid by
one bid increment over your bid, if that does not exceed the maximum
set by the other guy. When you enter a bid amount, it is taken as
being your maximum, if it is big enough, the other guy's bid is raised
by one increment and you are the top bidder at "previous limit + one
increment".
There is an extensive explanation of this somewhere on the eBay site.
My frequent tactic is just to bid as much as I am willing to pay, and
then leave things alone. If someone else wants to pay more than that,
so be it.
carl
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