60North Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 This might be the time to become a Travel Bug Sales Person. Eight people are watching mine on eBay! Must be more to this Travel Bug thing than I thought! Quote Link to comment
+stora Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 This might be the time to become a Travel Bug Sales Person. Eight people are watching mine on eBay! Must be more to this Travel Bug thing than I thought! Its bidders that count not watchers Quote Link to comment
+Roberts-tribe Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Have a look at this 'ended early' auction. Read the text about watching. Then have a look at the hit counter at the bottom. As I understand it, a large proportion of the hit counter ended up on the watch list! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...me=STRK:MEWA:IT Quote Link to comment
Beer Monster Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 I'd be willing to bet that people only started watching it because the text asked them not to! Reverse psychology, maybe? Quote Link to comment
60North Posted April 19, 2005 Author Share Posted April 19, 2005 No-one had bid on my GPS when there was about 18 hours or so to go so I put up a message to say that it was being watched by 10 people and that if anyone wanted it they should not leave it too late!! I had a bid for the Buy it Now price within 45 minutes! Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Most people on ebay place bids in the last 5 minutes of the auction. I'd advise against ending early for that reason Quote Link to comment
+Stuey Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I had a bid for the Buy it Now price within 45 minutes! I never bid until the last 10 seconds of an eBay auction Quote Link to comment
60North Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 I had a bid for the Buy it Now price within 45 minutes! I never bid until the last 10 seconds of an eBay auction Too generous - try 6 seconds. it works for me (more often than not) Quote Link to comment
+-Phoenix- Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Very true, snipeing is a major problem with ebay, I too have been known to snipe bargins on ebay, and frankly, there is no other way I would bid on ebay these days, since my idea of a bargain price is apparantly a lot lower that 99% of people, who aparantly are prepared to bid well in excess of what the article is actually worth, and if you do bid slightly above this then there are aways people who will bid higher! Quote Link to comment
+McDeHack Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I bid with about 5 minutes to go with the highest amount that I am willing to pay. Example: I bid £50 on an item but I got it for £35. Quote Link to comment
+McDeHack Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Another example was when I was after an article The silly person who out bid me paid £1 over the 'Buy it now price' Quote Link to comment
+JRM-IRL Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 This might be the time to become a Travel Bug Sales Person. Eight people are watching mine on eBay! Must be more to this Travel Bug thing than I thought! Sorry, I expect one of them is me...and I'm only watching it to see what it goes for Quote Link to comment
SlytherinAlex Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Sorry, I expect one of them is me...and I'm only watching it to see what it goes for And I'm watching it cos I'm a numbers man. - Quote Link to comment
+Mad H@ter Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 This might be the time to become a Travel Bug Sales Person. Eight people are watching mine on eBay! Must be more to this Travel Bug thing than I thought! Sorry, I expect one of them is me...and I'm only watching it to see what it goes for Ditto Quote Link to comment
+JRM-IRL Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 ROFL So, thats 3 watchers accounted for...maybe the other 5 might bid? Quote Link to comment
+Boneychest & Catsuey Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Another example was when I was after an article The silly person who out bid me paid £1 over the 'Buy it now price' Or others similar to this Memory Map UK when "Ben and Lizzie" regularly sell them at £168.05 buy-it-now (and no, I'm not Ben or Lizzie ) Quote Link to comment
60North Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 Look at the bdding on my small labels. 2 labels currently stand at £3.41. They only cost £1.20 each! I expect though that it is to avoid the horrendous P&P charges that some of the suppliers are charging! Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I bid with about 5 minutes to go with the highest amount that I am willing to pay.Example: I bid £50 on an item but I got it for £35. i bid in the odd numbers like £3:48 as a maximum bid. It can put your bid 1p above the last bid sometimes. Also i bid late as well. NB my old palm iiix is up for sale at the moment. Yup i usually watch to find out how much something sold for when i want to bid i do the above without watching the item. Quote Link to comment
60North Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 Snipers don't always win by any stretch of the imagination. I lost a GPS60CS by £3 yesterday. If you want to automate your sniping there is always www.snip.pl Very cheap and very good! Quote Link to comment
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