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canada16 · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 9:51 pm

If thats the case.

Then why can I see the highest bid right now on ebay?

it went from like 300 to 400 with one bid.

If you look at the bidding history you can see the max bids.

I am new to ebay. 50 sales and 100% so not an expert

But I know if I put 1000.00 right now, someone else will see that and can bid 1005. 00

Maybe I am getting confused with this now. Question

supersonic · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 9:58 pm

It doesn't show all the bidding history.

The bid is at £300 currently. The bidder (A) may have put in a max bid of £400, but as the last bid was £295 it jumps to £300.

Then someone puts in a max bid of £500, and it will jump to £405. So it can jump big depending on the bids.

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canada16 · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:01 pm

Ok now I am confused.

I though if an item was .. lets say 1.00 and I put a bid of 20.00, then someone that sees the bid will have to place a bid above 20.00?

I can see the bid history, if you click on the number of bids,

supersonic · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:05 pm

They will have to place more than £20 to be in front, but he might put in a tenner into start which won't be enough - he will get the 'you have been outbid by another ebay member' and the bidding will show as £10 from YOU.

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Joe_Pineapples · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:13 pm

If a bid starts at £1 and you bid £1000 and no one else bids, then you pay £1.
If after your £1000 bid, someone else bids £50, then their bid will immediately be shown as too low and you will have to pay £51, etc etc.
I thought it was all fairly self-explanatory.

Where systems like esnipe win is that people bidding early can artificially drive the price up.
It's all well and good saying "pick your maximum and stick to it" but invariably no one ever does. People bid what they are prepared to pay, but they almost always hold a little in reserve "just in case".
If your maximum for the item you want is say £100 and it sells for £105 to someone else because you're sticking to some kind of principle, then you're going to look a bit of a tit.

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canada16 · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:17 pm

Got it for $ 565.00= £340.00

Go esnipe.

Laughing

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supersonic · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:17 pm

I stick to my guns! Many people don't know when to say stop lol and that £100 turns into £157 due to some bidding war. Then you look a tit Wink

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canada16 · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:18 pm

Thanks joe for the sugestion.

Now for the duty and delivery.

200 for duty and 120.00 for delivery

Still not to bad, i think.

But hey I wanted it bad.

Joe_Pineapples · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:18 pm

supersonic · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:42 pm

canada16 · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:45 pm

$700.00

duty was £200.00 and shipping was £130.00

So did not want to really go over £700.00 total

Not too bad, it is a sweet frame. I hope....

But duty was £200.00 based on $800.00 so should be about £150.00.

Thanks guys for the info.

supersonic · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:47 pm

Thing is if you had put that in as your max bid you would have still got it for $565 Wink

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Joe_Pineapples · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:48 pm

Doubt it, you might have got bidder 38 think "I'll bid another $20".

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supersonic · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:53 pm

But they might have done that anyway.

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nicklouse · **Posted** Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:56 pm

interesting shipping terms.

and sales terms.

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canada16 · **Posted** Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:02 am

The Beginner · **Posted** Mon Nov 9, 2009 1:56 pm

With SS here, you've got it wrong, if its at 500 and you bid 700 it goes to 520 (£20 increments at £500 from memory) it will only go above that if someone else bids (or the £500 was part way to that bidders max of say £600 - when you'd get it for say 620)

I always bid pence over my 'max bid' so say £700.11 as if someone has bid £700 and you're bid is already in place your max bid is higher so you get it.

Guessing you don't ebay much C16?

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canada16 · **Posted** Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:13 pm

Yes but my point is if your max is 700.11 I could go in there at 701.00 and win, and you have lost out by a few pence.

Thats why placing the bid in the last seconds helps, I would never enter my max bid at the start of the auction.

Like I said I only have 50 feedback at 100% so dont know the exact ins and outs of ebay, just place a bid in the last seconds, or buying in general. Laughing

supersonic · **Posted** Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:18 pm

Not exactly, as you have to bid the next allowable increment, which as the price gets higher it increases too. You can't just add pence when the bid is this high already. Unless you were first with the bid.

The max bid will always beat any sniper, as it is auto in there.

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canada16 · **Posted** Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:49 pm

I might have to do more investigating on this.. Laughing

I always thought if someone put a bid of say 700.00 which is there max, and I snipe or put a bid in of 710.00, I win.

But with snipe, if I put a bid of 650.00 and 700.00 is the max then I dont win.

But I would know I need to beat 700.00 anyway, as this will show on ebay and who the max bid is and ammend the snipe accordingly.

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