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Win One, Lose Three

Like many other collectors, I watch multiple auctions. Often from the same seller who’s staggered their listings by 30 seconds or less. In competitive bidding situations it is impossible to win one auction and then update your bid on another (ex, someone outbid you while you were winning the first) because the app takes you away from your search after a win and routes you to your purchases. You then have to go back to your search, find the next item again and finally scream in frustration because while you were trying to get back from a completely nonsensical detour the app took you through, someone out bid you and the auction ended. Please, either provide a setting for how you want the app to behave after a win or simply keep the user where they are so they can quickly move to the next auction. This will prevent many users like myself from throwing and breaking valuable items around their homes. Thank you.

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The app is not really suited for such a task, and it is unlikely that eBay will be able to set it up to do exactly what you want.

 

You may be better off using a browser, preferably a desktop browser, that allows you to open multiple browser tabs so that you can switch between them quickly and easily to adjust your bid amounts or decide whether or not to submit a bid.

 

If you open multiple tabs and enter bid amounts in advance, and you do not need to change your bid amounts, you should have enough time to switch between auctions if the auctions are not closer than about ten seconds apart. Any closer than that and you may not be able to refresh the page after the end of the auction and be sure you are seeing all the bids that eBay has received before moving on to the next listing.

 

I have used that technique to bid on several items that were ending within about a minute where I had a target price in mind for each item that I was willing to pay, but I also had to ensure that I did not spend above a certain amount in total, regardless of how good each individual deal was, so that I did not continue to bid once I reached my total amount.

 

Or you can decide how much you are willing to bid on each item in advance and either submit your bid yourself or set up a sniping service to bid on your behalf at a preset time. This is harder to do if your bid or the amount is contingent on the results of other auctions ending in quick succession, though.

 

There may be sniping services that allow you to group your items and coordinate your bids in various ways. The simplest would be to submit a list of equivalent items and an amount you are willing to spend, and allowing the sniping service to submit a snipe bid as each item ends until you win one, and then stopping. But there may be other possible arrangements; I have not studied the available options, as I only bid manually.

 

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Using a browser and tabs is certainly an option. I’ve done this and it works; however, the winning splash screen and routing to purchases after a win is something of a recent change to the app. Previously, this wasn’t the case. You got a quick acknowledgment of your win and stayed within your previous search. You might lose a second or two but it was certainly better than the needless journey the app takes you though now. 

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You’re the type of guy that waits till the last second in hopes to win through a time out rather than actually winning a bidding war, aren’t you? eBay allows you to put an amount in and they bid for you. Why not try to actually pay what your

willing to on an item rather than rob people that are willing to pay more just because you entered the minimum amount to win right before it times out.....

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