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« Reply #3180 on: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 22:12:46 » |
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Losing out on an item on ebay at the last second due to an automatic bid. I don't even know how u set an automatic bloody bid?
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #3181 on: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 22:33:00 » |
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You bid a maximum amount. Say it's a £10 and currently you're winning the auction with an £8 bid. Someone else bids £9.99 with seconds to spare, but because you bid a max of £10 you will win the auction in the last min as eBay will bid up to your maximum automatically
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« Reply #3182 on: Monday, May 30, 2011, 07:09:49 » |
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Losing out on an item on ebay at the last second due to an automatic bid. I don't even know how u set an automatic bloody bid?
Use an auction stealer like www.hammersnipe.com. That way nobody can jack your price up with shill bidding and/or drag you into a bidding war. |
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« Reply #3183 on: Monday, May 30, 2011, 10:21:02 » |
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You bid a maximum amount. Say it's a £10 and currently you're winning the auction with an £8 bid. Someone else bids £9.99 with seconds to spare, but because you bid a max of £10 you will win the auction in the last min as eBay will bid up to your maximum automatically
I'd done that and still had a big gap to my maximum with seconds remaining. The original bidder then outbid me and it was showing as an automatic bid. Surely if they'd set that as their maximum from the outset, I would never have been winning, it would have gone straight to their higher bid. I reckon they must have placed another bid at the last second, but I was confused by it saying automatic bid. |
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« Reply #3184 on: Monday, May 30, 2011, 10:25:07 » |
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Use an auction stealer like www.hammersnipe.com. That way nobody can jack your price up with shill bidding and/or drag you into a bidding war. Thanks Batch, will try that. |
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« Reply #3185 on: Monday, May 30, 2011, 10:27:14 » |
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Say it was already on £10 and your max was £15, but they bid last minute at £18 maximum, it will show as an auto bid because ebay does everything incrementally. i.e. it would recognise the first bid over £10, then your maximum of £15 then the other maximum of £18.
It's why last minute bidding only works if you put in a good maximum.
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« Reply #3186 on: Monday, May 30, 2011, 10:45:51 » |
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The way to do it is to use a sniping website, and bid the maximum that you're willing to pay. That way, from an economic benefit point of view, you can't possibly lose. Either you get the item at or below the max you're willing to pay, or somebody pays more than you value the item at.
This may be what others have said, but I couldn't be bothered to read through!
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« Reply #3187 on: Monday, May 30, 2011, 10:59:22 » |
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Say it was already on £10 and your max was £15, but they bid last minute at £18 maximum, it will show as an auto bid because ebay does everything incrementally. i.e. it would recognise the first bid over £10, then your maximum of £15 then the other maximum of £18.
It's why last minute bidding only works if you put in a good maximum.
Ah, I see what you mean. That must have been what happened. They got a bit lucky by just beating my maximum - annoying! |
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« Reply #3188 on: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 12:26:19 » |
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No bovril in the whole of Bangkok
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« Reply #3189 on: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 13:27:06 » |
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Losing your fucking joint bank account card
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« Reply #3190 on: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 13:44:17 » |
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I'd done that and still had a big gap to my maximum with seconds remaining. The original bidder then outbid me and it was showing as an automatic bid. Surely if they'd set that as their maximum from the outset, I would never have been winning, it would have gone straight to their higher bid. I reckon they must have placed another bid at the last second, but I was confused by it saying automatic bid.
I get great pleasure from bidding on something i'm not really arsed about and then still not being the highest bidder, thus making some poor cunt pay a bit more. |
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« Reply #3191 on: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 08:45:39 » |
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Getting none of the Olympic tickets that I bid for.
After Athens, in particular, would be great if most of the events at London 2012 sold out. But I'm still annoyed.
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« Reply #3192 on: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 08:51:49 » |
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Is that it now then, if you haven't had the money taken out you won't have got anything? Will be similarly disappointed if that is the case.
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« Reply #3193 on: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 08:54:14 » |
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Mine's been debited, I believe the last ones are meant to be debited at midight tonoght.
Mine has been debited by £106 which doesn't add through any combination of the tickets I tried to get. Have they snuck a booking fee that they didn't mention at the time in?
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« Reply #3194 on: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 09:07:50 » |
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Is that it now then, if you haven't had the money taken out you won't have got anything? Will be similarly disappointed if that is the case.
All accounts would have been debited by midnight last night if you had bid successfully for tickets. Nothing on my credit card this morning, so I know we've missed out. Mine's been debited, I believe the last ones are meant to be debited at midight tonoght.
Mine has been debited by £106 which doesn't add through any combination of the tickets I tried to get. Have they snuck a booking fee that they didn't mention at the time in?
I think I did hear about a £6 booking fee - so if any of your other events total £100, you'll probably be getting that. |
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