i disagree. some things are higher. some are an excellent value.
high end men's shoes
xerox consumables
faucets
power boats
boat parts
some software
can all be excellent value.
lot of stuff, like power tools, computers, are lousy values
there are also a lot of scams now on ebay. ebay
Of course, this is an absurd way to run an auction. No RL auction
would ever take that $51 bid without asking for more. Seems like there
should be a simple way to solve the problem via software, such as
extending an auction if a bid is received within the last x seconds.
EBay should pay you money
I think what you're missing is this: snipers would useless if everyone bid
their maximum, but a lot of people don't. They just enter a bid that's a
little higher than the current bid and come back later if they're outbid.
So sniping is a way to use inefficiencies in the auction process to
Because when you enter a bid, anyone can manually outbid you, as long as he
has time. The earlier you do it, the more time people have to manually
outbid. If you do it at the last second, no one has time and only automatic
bids can outbid you.
If you really bid the maximum you were willing to pay
Good points. I have participated in eBay auctions but the final
sale price was NEVER what I would call reasonable.
Sometimes the eBay price is 50% less. Those are happy buys.
Recently I'm seeing much higher prices. Sometimes I thing the buyer would
have been better off buying retail.
It all depends on the item,.
I have noticed some companies are using Ebay to sell refurbished
items. Also some other companies are using Ebay to sell restocked
items they cannot sell on the shelf.
Stewart
At 10:00 AM 8/26/2008, you wrote:
Sometimes the eBay price is 50% less. Those are
Okay. Well explained. I accept that.
Thanks.
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Because when you enter a bid, anyone can manually outbid you, as long
as he has time. The earlier you do it, the more time people have to
manually outbid. If you do it at the last second, no one has time and
only automatic bids can outbid you.
If you really bid the maximum you were
Didn't you read the example? I *did* win the item. I paid *less* than my
maximum. I saved $40 over what would have happened if I had simply bid my
maximum. And this isn't hypothetical: I've won auctions in exactly this way,
and so have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of other people.
How
i just got this answer from a real person at eSnipe:
The problem was that when you updated your bidding password on one of our
servers our system did not update your status on our alternate server. I have
done this for you now. eBay has verified your bidding information on both
servers and
i don't know what is an RL auction. there are many types of auctions. this
eBay system is one of the common ones.
each auction i have ever been to has had a set of rules, but there does not
seem to be a standard set of rules.
At 11:48 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote:
Of course, this is an absurd
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, this is an absurd way to run an auction. No RL auction
would ever take that $51 bid without asking for more. Seems like there
should be a simple way to solve the problem via software, such as
extending an auction if
rasmus.com has the 5 minute extension.
but while at it, why not complain about the minimum next allowable bid being to
large or small. in most online auctions that i have seen, the next allowable
minimum bid gets larger as the price goes up.
in most live auctions i have attended for real
Ebay's system is the way it is. I would not want it to change, as I
do not want to sit there watching bidding all the time.
Snipe systems allow you to last second bid and possibly get an item
for a better price.
Too often I have seen an item I would like get snatched from me as I
had a bid
What an interesting response. Sometimes I forget I'm living with a
couple generations that have grown up online, and have very probably
never even been to a Real Life auction. They think the Ebay way is the
way auctions work.
If you've actually been to some rl auctions, and they've all had
Having been to a few earl life auctions I know how they work.
Ebay is not to simulate a real life auction. It is an auction venue.
If you are going to knock it come up with another site that is as
popular and makes as much money as theirs does.
You may not think it operates as a real life
I use MYIBAY which has a Firefox addon or a standalone. A useful feature is
sniping for (any) one (or other #) of multiple targets. The first satisfaction
of # winning bids ends the sniping.
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Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via
i should also point out to you that a very large number of these
auctions end at 9 or 10pm..pacific time. i am a very elderly
person living in gmt-5. i am long in bed when these auctions end.
We've been using online auctions since there were online auctions. It
was fun when there
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From: Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I still don't get it.
eBay already lets you enter a maximum price, but the winning bid is set by
the second highest price plus the auction's increment.
I worry about
/snip/
can you tell us if you've ever been to one where the
auctioneer used a timer and whoever placed the last bid before the
bell rang won the item? Even if other people were bidding?
/snip/
Charitable organizations have run silent auctions -- items are
displayed on tables while people
b_s-wilk wrote:
There are so many eBay stores with Buy It Now prices better than
ending auction prices, and other sites with great prices.
Betty
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Agreed. I always search for a good price from a source other than eBay,
and many times I can find one that is sells the same item cheaper
There are two things to be said however. On eBay, running up the price
just seconds before the auction closes is a way of getting a better
price than one could by bidding earlier with a high bid in the hope that
other bidders will not exceed that bid by successive bidding.
Second, I am a
My goodness! 8)
I've found that it's sometimes better to look at another man's
junk and make an offer than to bid for another man's treasure.
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I do some upgrades though Ebay.
I try not to buy phones from the cell company. Every now and then we
upgrade when they have a deal. But otherwise we have bought and sold
phones on Ebay.
Some electronic equipment is OK too. I usually buy last years model
of stuff and Ebay is a nice place
i have used eSnipe for a couple three years. about 6 months ago, i started to
get log on errors for my bids from them.
eBay Username or Password Problem
eBay reports that the password or username you provided is not valid. It is too
late for this bid, but you can fix it before your next bid.
no sense talking to a computer. who else does eSniping?
I can't answer that, but I do have a questions that I think others on the
list may be asking too...
Can you tell us why eSniping is even necessary. Doesn't eBay provide all
the facilities you need to complete a successful bid? I have
Try Hammer snipe.
What sniping does is make it possible to do a last second bid to a
higher amount without sitting there and watching the auction.
I use it when I know I might not be available when the auction is
coming to a close.
There have been quite a few auctions I have lost when a
Handy not always necessary but can make the difference between
getting what you want at the price level you want and having to sit
there and monitor an auction all day long.
I still don't get it.
eBay already lets you enter a maximum price, but the winning bid is set by the
second highest
I still don't get it.
eBay already lets you enter a maximum price, but the winning bid is set
by the second highest price plus the auction's increment.
Because when you enter a bid, anyone can manually outbid you, as long as he
has time. The earlier you do it, the more time people have to
tom, i have been to many an auction where bidding fever takes over. if he is
willing to pay at least one million dollars(lets be serious), i decide i am
willing to pay 1mil,10and 20 and thirty, etc clear up to two
million, because did not someone else think the item worth that
i should also point out to you that a very large number of these auctions end
at 9 or 10pm..pacific time. i am a very elderly person living in
gmt-5. i am long in bed when these auctions end.
still
jer
At 01:57 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote:
Handy not always necessary but can make the
No eSnipe still doesn't make any sense to me.
I think what you're missing is this: snipers would useless if everyone bid
their maximum, but a lot of people don't. They just enter a bid that's a
little higher than the current bid and come back later if they're outbid.
Suppose I've decided that
Of course, this is an absurd way to run an auction. No RL auction
would ever take that $51 bid without asking for more. Seems like there
should be a simple way to solve the problem via software, such as
extending an auction if a bid is received within the last x seconds.
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