Biddings never telling you what's the new price!
Idk if it's just me but I HATE when I'm bidding on something that's let's say $2 & I'm the second person to bid on it before the time runs out. Then when it's the final hour I'm out bid but it never says what the new price is!! I always have to increase my bid up from my $2 to 4, now 5 now 6. Then I'm up to $23 & I'm still to low. It never tells you when your the highest bidder until you get there. Is there a way this could change or is it an ebay thing?
4 comments
mudshark61369
·8 months ago@frankieej ,
You can learn about how bidding on ebay auctions works by opening the link below. When you click on the Tips for winning auctions button, at the bottom of that article is a link about Bid Sniping. read that as well. Sniping takes some practice to bid in the last seconds of an auction's duration so the first time you do try that place your snipe bid in the last 30 seconds. Make sure it is the highest amount you are willing to pay for the item, because you may not get another chance to increase your bid. Also add a few odd cents to the bid it can help you win if in the last seconds someone else bids the same amount. You can break a tie by as little as a penny.
roccotacodad54
·8 months agoAs mentioned by kathiec. I figure out how much I'm willing to pay (including shipping & tax) and bid late in the game for that amount plus a little more.
For instance if I think an item is worth $50.00 to me and the shipping is around $6.00 I'll bid $40.11, maybe $41.11. If I lose that's OK because I didn't want to spend more than that. I won one for $27 and change just the other day placing a $50.11 maximum bid.
No need for me to know what the other bidders are bidding. I'll place my bid and move on and check "My Purchases" when I get around to it. If I won either it will show I paid (auto pay set up by seller) or that I need to pay. Easy, no stress..............................
kathiec
·8 months ago@frankieej
No, it's not going to change. That's been eBay's bidding model for the entirety of the 29 years I've been here. EBay is not an outcry system where you know the current high bid. It's a proxy system, where you authorize eBay to bid just as much of your proxy bid as it takes to be one bid increment higher than the next bid.
So smart bidders learn how to work within the proxy system. Nibble bidding, trying to find out the high bid, is a fool's errand. Decide the absolute maximum you're willing to pay for item, add a few cents to help prevent a tie, then make one bid for that amount as close to the end of the listing as you can. That protects you from all those nibble bidders still out there.
marnotom!
·8 months agoWhy not just bid the maximum you’re prepared to pay and let the proxy bidding chips fall where they may?
eBay auctions are always won by the highest bidder, who may or may not be the last bidder.
I’ve won auctions with proxy bids made hours before an auction’s closing, outbidding bidders who bid in the last few minutes or seconds of an auction, because my proxy bid was higher than the maximum bid they entered.