How do I bid on ebay when I'm not there?

larmy16

I always use the Maximum I want to pay. In the cases where I lose the item, well I soon get over it. Someone on here once said there will be another one along (item) soon anyway and then you end up getting it cheaper when you are lucky.

heathen

cafenervosa wrote:

There is 1 simple way, bid your maximum bid that you want to pay. If someone outbids you, you won't care because it went for more than you can pay. Forget sniping, MAXIMUM is the answer.

nope,the best way is to keep your interest in the item hidden to the last minute.

theres no downside.you put your maximum bid in early manually or you put your maximum in a sniping software,you might aswel use the software!!!

culpepper

I believe a maximum bid will still beat a sniping program if the amount is the same. If you were to bid £20 as a maximum bid and someone snipe bid £20,you would still win it because your bid was in first.
I have used a snipe program a couple of times and won but would probably have won those items anyway using maximum bid.

Contains_Mild_Peril

culpepper wrote:

I believe a maximum bid will still beat a sniping program if the amount is the same. If you were to bid £20 as a maximum bid and someone snipe bid £20,you would still win it because your bid was in first.

That's true, so however you bid, round numbers are inadvisable. If you bid something like £20.07, you'd have a better chance of winning.

tightgitttt

I also searched for free sniping tools and found one at this site called j bid watcher. Plus some other interesting tools.

http://www.buy-n-sell-online.com/index2.php

Thefunkygibbons

This question pops up regularly

I use https://www.auctionsniper.com

Which has a small fee, but it is secure

Given that you have to provide log in details, security is more important that a small fee, especially since the fee is covered by the savings on the final price

adouglasmhor

justsnipe.com free for 5 or so auctions a week and secure.

vicker

Oooh, it's on the email. Not bad seeing as I've only been using this site for a week!

movingcloud

You may like to use Prospector - http://www.moxieproxy.com/. It has the added advantage of setting a bid group for you, so you can find several different listings of the same thing - put them into a bid group and Prospector will bid in the last seconds of each auction until you win an item, and then it will cancel all the rest of the items you had scheduled after it. You can also set up a search in Prospector that you can go back to from time to time (without having to redo the search) - I think collectors like this facility!

paddycharlton

I have a program called "last minute bidder" and that does all the work for me