first ebay bid...

[mr Mag00]

so as bid comes to an end, tactics?

 

[4F]

Wait until last minute and only then bid you maximum. Don't bid whole numbers, if you max is £ 10.00 bid something like £ 10.78 Quite a few people will bid just over say £ 10.01 so by bidding an unusual figure will often give you a better chance

 

[swee'pea99]

Tactics: bid once, bid your maximum, bid within 10 seconds of the close. Or use auctionstealer.com to do it for you.

 

[swee'pea99]

Auctionstealer is free indefinitely - tho' you have to pay if you want more than three 'goes' a week.

 

[mr Mag00]

it is telling me to bid at least £82.00, so anything above that. what i am prepared to bid using auctionstealer? i have done so and await my first win!!!

 

[4F]

Good luck

 

[swee'pea99]

On any given auction, at any given time, ebay will tell you what you need to bid if you want to be top-bidder. The thing to do is avoid all that hurly-burly by deciding at the outset what's the maximum you're prepared to pay, then setting up auctionstealer accordingly. Then you can forget all about it, knowing you will either win - paying no more than is necessary to beat the next highest bidder - or lose, to someone who was willing to pay more than you.

Either way, good luck!

 

[mr Mag00]

ty all for your help, i now have a better understanding, it has all changed since i first signed up and i have never bid before as you can tell

 

[guitarpete247]

I've never used auctionstealer or any of the other cheat programmes. Much prefer to use my stealth and cunning to win the prize.
I enjoy waiting to see if I've been outbid or put my highest bid in with only a few seconds to go and see if I can outwit the opposition.
Only went wrong once when the line dropped and missed out by my bid not going on.

 

[mr Mag00]

second point then. i have a paypal account on a dormant bank account so i put the money into the bank account and the transfer to the seller, will it become obvious how to do this i assume i will recieve an email?

 

[4F]

I've never used auctionstealer or any of the other cheat programmes. Much prefer to use my stealth and cunning to win the prize.
I enjoy waiting to see if I've been outbid or put my highest bid in with only a few seconds to go and see if I can outwit the opposition.
Only went wrong once when the line dropped and missed out by my bid not going on.

That's my method as well, I have managed once to bid within 1 second of the auction closing but that was more luck as my screen froze.

Usually I try to get within 5 seconds of the end and have had a lot of success this way. £ 20 for a concrete mixer which I used and then put back on and sold for £ 87 being my best to date.

 

[4F]

second point then. i have a paypal account on a dormant bank account so i put the money into the bank account and the transfer to the seller, will it become obvious how to do this i assume i will recieve an email?

You can either use paypal through a bank account or via a debit or credit card. Once you have won and you click "make payment" there will be a link which will take you to the paypal site

 

[mr Mag00]

this auction finishes whilst i am out. but i have already put some bids in yesterday before i knew about the maximum bid system, oh well

 

[4F]

You can still bid now up to your maximum bid and this will only kick in if anyone else bids over your last maximum.

 

[mr Mag00]

yh i was more referring to the fact i have put up the price by bidding, but i am using auctionstealer to see what happens