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Extremely important to see what the sellers like..and apparently, it's best to wait till the last minute..especially if the products genuine, coz other peeps also start bidding then and the price gets higher and higher..
just watch the price and see...
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YEs, this user or seller has 99.6% thing . Lol this is my first bid! I WANT THAT PSP SO BADLY!! :\ its already at $212 CDNand yeah i read stuff too. Is the shipment usually free or not?
nah there's postage most of time... n as sum1 prob alredy sed.. bid on last 2 or so min (or sec if u can
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I used to both buy and sell on ebay. When buying I was a sniper. All of my bids were within the last 10 seconds of the auction end. I had many within the last second. I used to use a stopwatch. Type in my bid and be already to submit and then submit during the last 15 seconds of the auction end. My connection speed used to normaly take 14 seconds to connect the bid. It it was something I really wanted I would do a "Nuke" bid about 30 seconds before auction end.
There are several types of bidders. The high proxy bidders that submit their highest bid at any point. Snipers like myself who try to get in a bid during the last second of the auction. Low ballers-those were bidders that only bid the lowest bid necessary. High Ballers-those are people that submit a rediculously high proxy bid. High ballers are usually shills working for the seller and keep the price high. That is against ebay policy, but it happens.
Then you have nibblers. Sellers love nibblers. They stay on line during the past hour of an auction and increas each bid by one increment at a time. Sometimes you get several nibblers during the last few minutes of an auction and the prices go redicuously high.
The only real secret is to make only one bid. Place the highest bid you are willing to bid and then forget it until after the auction. remember ebay only using the highest amount of your bid that is needed to win. any in excess is never used as part of the bid. It is ebays proxy bid system.
Another good thing to do for newbies is to go to some of the member forums. The "Soapbox" is usualy the best one for newbies in the US. In Australia the "Chinwag" and in the UK "The Round Table"
There are several types of bidders. The high proxy bidders that submit their highest bid at any point. Snipers like myself who try to get in a bid during the last second of the auction. Low ballers-those were bidders that only bid the lowest bid necessary. High Ballers-those are people that submit a rediculously high proxy bid. High ballers are usually shills working for the seller and keep the price high. That is against ebay policy, but it happens.
Then you have nibblers. Sellers love nibblers. They stay on line during the past hour of an auction and increas each bid by one increment at a time. Sometimes you get several nibblers during the last few minutes of an auction and the prices go redicuously high.
The only real secret is to make only one bid. Place the highest bid you are willing to bid and then forget it until after the auction. remember ebay only using the highest amount of your bid that is needed to win. any in excess is never used as part of the bid. It is ebays proxy bid system.
Another good thing to do for newbies is to go to some of the member forums. The "Soapbox" is usualy the best one for newbies in the US. In Australia the "Chinwag" and in the UK "The Round Table"