How to bid and win for a lower amount - the secret eBay sellers don't want you 2 know

TKPeters

My max was £1500
Bidder 1 Bided £500 (me)
bidder 2 bided £1.04
bidder 3 Bided £1500 (my max)

alcamist

right, i understand now and have just tried it i see what you all mean aswell as i usually don't bother to bid on stuff that has a few bids on.
we'll see how my test auction works

al

Mozette

Avoriaz wrote: »

I don’t agree.

The key to buying success on ebay is:

Bid once

Bid your maximum

Bid late, in the dying seconds of the auction



That works for me.

What Avoriaz said.

drezsa

So as a seller it would be best to remove these concurrent multiple bids from a sole bidder.

greeneye

It's a bit of psychology that might work with some bidders, but also might encourage your seller to shill

Hintza

I really did try this a few years ago because as OP says the psychology of it should deter other bidders but in reality the old soaks will see right through it.

Oh 26 bids and item still only 99p...hmm could have fun here and push this guy up it should be easy to figure out his max and at least make him pay it for a bit of sport...never mind shilling it.

MyUserNamesTaken

TKPeters wrote: »

Proof it doesn't always work; Item number: 280175343100

X reg Rover 75 1.8 Classic SE with TEO (TED?) Number Plate (Car Worth £1600 trade) Auction 99p start & BIN £2650, I bid £500 & currently £1750 with 4 days left ????

That car's so good, he's selling it twice! :rolleyes:


Item number: 280175049271

baffcat

Avoriaz wrote: »

I don’t agree.

The key to buying success on ebay is:

Bid once

Bid your maximum

Bid late, in the dying seconds of the auction

That works for me.

Av, are you me in disguise? I've been telling people that for years.

Baff

ChrisCar_2

As a seller of mainly low cost items
It works :-(
Though you are probably over doing it, one minimum bid and one proper bid a day or so later is more believable and often gets buyers my items at minimum bid price.
It looks like you've thought about it or done some research, then came back and upped your bid.

codger

The theory depends for its success on everyone with an interest in the listing actually monitoring the listing.

Years ago, that may well have been the case. But surely, not now.

As a buyer, I decide what an item is worth to me, then leave it to a snipe engine to make a late bid. I certainly don't hang around monitoring a listing where bidding behaviour can reflect everything from newbie naivety to cynical shilling: it ain't worth my time.

As a seller, I used to see (way back when) evidence of incremental bidding by bidders trying to scare off the opposition.

I don't see much of that now, probably because it's dawned on bidders that you can't scare off the opposition if the opposition's not watching. . .