Why am I constantly getting outbid by automatic bidders? Many of the items I've bid on already have a slew of auto bidders and I can't seem to outdo them, even when the price goes several hundred dollars up. Is there a way to get around these, and why is automatic bidding so common now? I'm not sure if it's just me, but I think automatic bidding kind of defeats the purpose of bidding-you're not really there.

@premil8480, "Many of the items I've bid on already have a slew of auto bidders and I can't seem to outdo them, even when the price goes several hundred dollars up. Is there a way to get around these, and why is automatic bidding so common now?" Because you are not really experienced using ebay, you may be misreading the bid history pages. The clue to figuring out who is an automatic bidder vs. those who bid one increment at a time over and over (nibble bidders) is to look at the...

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