I Tried Ebay For The First Time This Morning

[Kay B]

I heard there is software that some use on e-bay to be succesful bidding. It sounded dishonest to me. This was a few years ago on another message board. (games)

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by hnhisle

I heard there is software that some use on e-bay to be succesful bidding. It sounded dishonest to me. This was a few years ago on another message board. (games)

Hey my wife and I used to play on games.com a LOT... back before all the good games went down.

There are sites where you can put in your maximum bid and what time the auction closes and how many seconds you want to bid before closing.

I never bid until there is less than a minute left.

Bidding earlier just drives the cost up.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Hey my wife and I used to play on games.com a LOT... back before all the good games went down.

There are sites where you can put in your maximum bid and what time the auction closes and how many seconds you want to bid before closing.

I never bid until there is less than a minute left.

Bidding earlier just drives the cost up.

I play games on game.com, pogo, yahoo, etc.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Cindy

I play games on game.com, pogo, yahoo, etc.

I don't go there any more. We used to go there before it changed over to its current format.

My wife and I played Spades online a LOT...

I liked to play Rook too... but she never cared for it.

[Tina]

Originally Posted by ManOfWord

I use eBay all the time. I am an expert sniper!!! I like to see how close I can get my bid to the end of the auction. I got sniped once, and vowed that it would never happen to me again!

Me too. I won't even bid if I can't be around at the end of an auction to snipe it.

Originally Posted by Derrick Sample

Sniper software really helps. I use it.

Who needs software??!! I can bid within the last two seconds of an auction anyway without software. So far, I haven't missed getting an item I really wanted.

[Innocuous]

Originally Posted by hnhisle

I heard there is software that some use on e-bay to be succesful bidding. It sounded dishonest to me. This was a few years ago on another message board. (games)

I've been active on Ebay since almost the beginning, the late 90's. The practice of outbidding someone at the last second is called 'sniping' and there are programs available online where the program will snipe auctions for you even if you're not logged on. Kinda like an Ebay DVR. Ebay has become rather complicated over the years and while my other half is still pretty active on there I've kinda gone the Craigslist route.