Ebay sniping

[DiscoStu]

very dull but it would make SKA easier to program

I wonder if Google and Yahoo would be banned too?

[b0redom]

I still don't see what you're whinging about. Regardless of the perceived demand, it's still demand and supply. If you wanted it that badly why didn't you bid £100? You do understand that you will only pay fractionally more than the second highest bidder right?

[Platypus]

Oh no, it's not one of them steam powered IBM clacky clacky ones is it?

I love those! You can proper hit the keys

[BrilloPad]

I wonder if Google and Yahoo would be banned too?

and banks - we can keep our money under the mattress.....

[jmo21]

I still don't see what you're whinging about. Regardless of the perceived demand, it's still demand and supply. If you wanted it that badly why didn't you bid £100? You do understand that you will only pay fractionally more than the second highest bidder right?

exactly what i've been wondering reading all the way through this stupid fecking thread!!

so lets say you could have outbid the £26, then someone else outbid you, rinse repeat..... how far would you have gone? £30, £40, £75?? more?

just bid that from the start and you would have got it regardless of any sniper's unless they sniped more than you.

in fact....if you had bid your top line £75, and they sniped at £75 you would have won as you'd bid first

i have no problem sniping, i mostly buy second hand games. I use Gixen, and it allows you to group bids on similar items.

Just bought Fallout 3 last night bidding my max amount. lost a fair few before i got one but thats fine. also allows you to take in differing p+p amounts into account.

[Paddy]

FFS - auctions should auto-extend if someone bids at the last moment

My trick. I time it to the second.

[Platypus]

The rules and the fact that eBay auto bids the next increment are well known.

I got sniped once.... then I got bidnapper

[expat]

What the low bidder (like AtW) and the sniper has in common is that they like to think they are gaining an advantage by hiding their hand. AtW lost that little game, so he thinks the other guy should be punished.

I might just as well say that increasing your bid during an auction should be banned, because you should have already bid as much as you are prepared to pay.

[Purple Dalek]

One of the other problems on eBay is the seller getting his 'friends'/sockpuppets to bid up the price. So I always use some non-round number as my max bid and stick to it. If I feel the sellers done something dirty like this, and it's usally quite obvious, I tend to avoid them in future. Unfortunately for some of the things I buy there're only a small number of eBay sellers, and not many buyers, so what I do there is bid on lots of their auctions at the same time to hide which item I am really interested in. That way they'll lose more than they gain by having sockpuppets bid on all the items to push up the price, and I've not seen one of them do it three times... It's worth it, as the things I want I value quite highly, but are not worth that much to others, luckily I've never ended up with the stuff I didn't want.

And when it''s all said and done, it's mainly for entertainment isn't it. Not stuff you 'need'.

[JoJoGabor]

On the NZ equivalanet www.trademe.nz if you put a bid in near the end it extends the time by 5 minutes - much better system, except for the likes of me who do quite well out of sniding, sorry sniping!