Just watching some items on ebay and I still can't work out why people have bidding wars days before the auction ends.
I can't see the point of driving up the price if you are trying win the item.
Mind you isn't this what the seller of the item wants to get maxium price.

THEY ARE ALL GREEDY ****S!!!!

Sailhack said...

I put a bid of what I'm prepared to go to early, then don't look until the auction has ended.
Upside - won a few pretty good things with 1 bid!
Downside is, missed out on a few things by only dollars, but didn't worry me too much.

...at my age, I just don't need the excitement!

Yeah, I often do the same thing. I figure if I win it, I win it.

I have also had a few times where the other 'bidder' has pushed up my price and then gone over it, and then retracted the last bid.

The last few times I remember seeing someone outbid me, and then no more than a minute after the auction closes I get a second chance offer from the seller saying the winner has refused to pay... yeah right!

All this fun gets a bit old after a while, so sometimes its easier to bid and then forget about it until its over.

DunkO said...

you are always better of not biding right untill the last few seconds, then throwing down your max bid. that way the other bidders don't get the chance to force up your bid. still a gamble if you will win but defenetly a smarter move.

You guys know that there are programs you can get that will do this for you, don't you?

I used one once or twice and it was surprising how automated they make it. You can even search through the program and monitor auctions all over the place without opening a web browser.

I think one was called something like j-bid watcher.

Now, I just couldn't be bothered.

I leave it till the last seconds, I'm sure half the time it's the seller bidding against you with a different name, I even know someone who has done this from their fathers computor