Thread: Ebay Bidding

You put your highest price in at $4500, your bid will be the starting price of $3500 despite the reserve. Let's say you are the only bidder, you have not won the auction as you have not reached the reserve. The person trying to sell their stuff, may contact you to negotiate further, but not allways.

At least I am fairly sure...

Hi Garry,

This is from eBay help information:-

"If your maximum bid is the first to meet or exceed the reserve price, the effective bid displayed will automatically be raised to the reserve price."

Which says to me if you put in a bid that at least meets the reserve your bid will be that amount (until someone else bids more). After that the usual eBay rules seem to apply. That is, first in wins the day.

From your provided example, eBay would put your bid at $4000 and you'd win at that if you were the only bidder.

I usually make use of a bid engine so I don't reveal my hand early. I figure there's no value in alerting the world to the fact that I'm really interested in an item.

Hope this has been of some use to you.

Cheers,
Iain

Absolutely, there is no point bidding early unless it is to extinguish a buy-it-now.

x2 with Rangiebit, if your maximum bid is above the reserve the bidding will be raised to the reserve.

Either bid late or use Gixen.com - or another sniper website - it will place your maximum bid in the last few seconds. It's not just the bidding at the last minute, but also that you don't forget to bid, and you can't catch auction fever at the last minute.

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

x2 with Rangiebit, if your maximum bid is above the reserve the bidding will be raised to the reserve.

Either bid late or use Gixen.com - or another sniper website - it will place your maximum bid in the last few seconds. It's not just the bidding at the last minute, but also that you don't forget to bid, and you can't catch auction fever at the last minute.

As a seller I love last minute auction fever. It's the only way that people are silly enough to willingly pay $30 for something that has a rrp of $17 and is freely available. I always list at 99c start and don't believe in reserves unless it is a car. I find it puts people off. It's a risk but usually pays off.

Learn something new every day

Yes abbodonxi but the sniper programs don't work on Landrover stuff on ebay when you bid against a fellow Aulrovian do they

And you keep right on believing that land864!! (insert evil laugh here)