OT - Ebay Bidding Tactics

Jay Honeck wrote:


For at least the last five auctions, I have been out-bid at the very
last second...literally. Today I tried putting in my bid with just 8
seconds to go in the auction, was "high bidder" for 6 seconds....and
was out-bid with literally 1 second left!

Since I was high-bidder by a good $40 (on a $200 unit) with just 6
seconds left, obviously someone -- or something -- is able to submit
bids extraordinarily fast. I've heard that there are programs that
automate the bidding process -- is that what I'm seeing here?


You don't lose because someone bid later, you lose because you didn't
bid high enough. Bid the maximum that you are willing to pay. You
can do this either by just doing so with the standard ebay bidding
(you will only have to pay one bid increment over the next highest
bidder) or with a sniping program which is what you think you are
competing against.

I use auctionsniper.com. This puts the same bid in at the end of
auction which keeps crooked sellers and others from screwing with
me and it discourages "nibblers" (people who repeatedly insert
bids one increment over the previous bid until they get tired of
it).