Bid

[mestriadilsha0]

Is there a maximum bid I can place per day? Thanks for all the help.

[rebell45]

Not necessarily per day, It depends on a lot of factors. Start small and pay for your purchases promptly and you will do fine.

https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/buying-limits-restrictions/buying-limits-restrictions?id=4012&st=12...

[mudshark61369 · Accepted solution]

@mestriadilsha0,

Since you are a new member located in Sri Lanka there are a few things that come into play.

1)  new buyer limits as the link rebell45 posted states.

2) You will not be able to bid on items if the seller does not ship to your country.  You have to click on the Shipping and Payment tab to check if a seller ships to Sri Lanka or not.

3)  There is an open transaction limit that is not described in the link that was posted.

Open transactions are:

• Items you have committed to buy but have not yet paid for.
• Offers that are awaiting being accepted, declined or countered.  Until one party accepts, declines, or the offer expires after 48 hours it is an open transaction.
• Each bid placed on an auction remains an open transaction until the auction ends, since another bidder could retract their bid(s) or the seller could cancel another member's bid(s) for some reason, leaving you the winner. 

You are allowed 4 or 5 open transactions at any one time until your limits are lifted. That is a rolling number, as you pay, have an offer declined, or lose an auction you get the limit returned.  If you want to bid on an auction, the best strategy is to place one bid, for the most you would be willing to pay for the item.  Place that bid as late in the auction as you can.  That way other bidders have less time to react to your bid, and you will know quickly whether or not you have won the auction. 

You may be limited in how much you can bid at first because of the limits.

Read the information about bidding in the link below.  Especially the sections about Automatic bids and bid sniping.  Sniping takes practice so if you intend to try that, place your bid with about 1 minute left. After the auction you can click on the numbers of bids which will take you to the bid history.  The history has time stamps saying exactly when your bid was received. You can tell from that if there were any delays from the time you entered your bid and it was received. Once you know if there are delays you can try bidding with less time left.

https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/bidding/bidding?id=4003