Last Minute Bidding

Filthy_Luka

Someone please advise me - ive done a search and didnt find anything relating to this.

I have seen on some auctions ive been watching that bidders who have not previoulsy bid on an item become the highest bidder.
The thing that intrests me is that the high bid amount was placed some days before the actual day it appears on the listing.

I would like to know how to do this so i can place my maximum bid on the item (say 5 days before the end) but do not want my bid to be revealed to others watching. This would save me having to be at my pc for the end times of the auctions safe in the knowledge that i will only lose if someone outbids me not because the end time has slipped my mind.

snake666

take a look at https://www.auctionsniper.com i use it all the time and it does the bidding for me with 4 seconds to go win about 95% of the stuff im after the first 3 bids are free
snake

criminal_smile

FL, this is proxy bidding. It's how Ebay works. You can specify at the start of the auction what your maximum bid will be. Ebay will then automatically increase your bid to the highest amount which will win, or the highest specified by you, in the event of someone bidding more. If you placed a bid of £30 on an item on day one of a 5 day auction, with a start price of £0.99, then your bid will show immediately as £0.99. If someone arrives on day 3, and bids e.g. £15.01 (your max being £25.01), then Ebay will auto bid you up to beat their bid with say, £15.51. The date shown for this bid will be the day you placed your first bid, which is why it shows as a much earlier bid.

HTH

Filthy_Luka

Thanks CS

but i have seen bids placed on the last day of the auction with dates thae are 5 days earlier than this BUT there has been no previous bid on the item by the bidder before.

say if they placed a max £30 bid 5 days ago this would have shown up at the time they placed it and they would be automatically bid up by ebay until their £30 was topped - what i am talking of is bids that appear that have dates of 3/4/5 days previous but do not appear til near the end

snake666

they are using a type of sniping software like the one i use
snake

Filthy_Luka

Are these sniper systems linked to ebay

i assume they must be because the bids are dated several days before it appears on the ebay bid list and i dont see how they could do it without ebays compliance

snake666

ebay does not want anything to do with these type sites yet and they cant really ban them as so many people are using them
you can buy a few different programmes or a pay as you go like auctionsniper they are all the same
snake

HairyHatMan

FL and snake,
If you read criminal_smile's post careful it explains what is happening. Each time the bidding moves nearer to the oringinal £30 bid, ebay automatically increases the bid so that it just beats the last bid, up to £30. Hence, if you place the £30 bid on day one and bids are placed throughout the auction including a last second bid of £29, the origianl bid will win at £30 and that bidder's id will only appear once in the bid history. It will show a single bid of £30 placed on day one of the auction at the top of the bidding history.

A snipe may well have placed the £29 bid in the closing seconds, but it will be recorded as having been placed in the dying seconds of the auction.

HTH

amit_1

these sniper things look dodgy cos no padlock and HTTPS. would not trust it will all your details.

snake666

never had any problems with the one i use and i got that from a pc monthly mag web user i think and it was its site of the month
snake

o.stjohn

Back to proxy bidding - what happens is you bid, say, £100 on a £5 item

No-one knows your max, they just see £5 bid on that date.

Someone else then bids £6 on the item.

Ebay takes over and a 'proxy' bid of £7 will appear in your name, dated the original date.

Hence the confusion! Do a search for proxy bidding on Ebay's help and all will be revealed. Hopefully you days of nibbling will be behind you!

Forward to sniping - Auction sniper bids on your behalf so it has to have your ebay ID and password. There is a secure registration page - choose the link on the 'first' registration page that says "Click here to use our secure sign-up form."

As a product it is excellent. Remembering that it isn't the last bid but the highest bid that wins, I use it to bid in the last 10 seconds on my behalf. I don't always win (no way to guarantee that unless you bid millions!) but I no longer get into bidding wars that can 'up' the price beyond my means! more >>> [If you register by this link we will both benefit by being given three free goes so why not give it a try!]

Cheers

Oliver