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Wullie
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:19 pm
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I noticed sometimes on eBay ,one bidder will have a bid , lets say £50. Then two bids appear and yet it's the same potential buyer and the bid is still £50 but he's placed another top up bid . So what the bidder is saying is, i'm upping my offer in case someone else bids. Basically ,he has sent the seller a signal that the item can go higher than £50 . A silly move. Better to bid once at a price you're happy with . |
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 2:24 pm
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Yes I've seen this happen many times Wullie, two or three bids with the item still at the starting price, in a bizarre attempt to ward off other bidders.
It's like they're asking to be shilled-up and fleeced.
There's nowt so strange as folk, as my old Nan used to say. _________________ NEWPORT COUNTY & GENERAL FOOTY BADGES:
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Fishy
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:45 pm
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Sometimes I think hat the initial bid is to stop the item being sold outside of Ebay - I have done this myself and then I come back to the item at the end.
Why the second bid comes so quickly I haven't a clue about. Although someone who I bid against sometimes is not always available near the end of the auction, and so bids up before time. _________________ Millwall league AWAYS wanted
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PompeyPhil
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 3:55 pm
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Fishy wrote: |
Sometimes I think hat the initial bid is to stop the item being sold outside of Ebay - I have done this myself and then I come back to the item at the end.
Why the second bid comes so quickly I haven't a clue about. Although someone who I bid against sometimes is not always available near the end of the auction, and so bids up before time. |
I can only speak for myself but I tend to do this if I know I can't follow the auction until it finishes......although it's always "what I'm willing to pay"......lost a few but also won a few!
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Pete’s Picture Palace Forum Moderator
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 4:06 pm
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Fishy wrote: |
Sometimes I think hat the initial bid is to stop the item being sold outside of Ebay - I have done this myself and then I come back to the item at the end.
Why the second bid comes so quickly I haven't a clue about. Although someone who I bid against sometimes is not always available near the end of the auction, and so bids up before time. |
Fishy, when I saw your name on this thread I thought it was some kind of hook! |
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manchesterunitedman1
Joined: 17 Jan 2010 Posts: 3330 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 4:14 pm
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littlewiggy wrote: |
Yes I've seen this happen many times Wullie, two or three bids with the item still at the starting price, in a bizarre attempt to ward off other bidders.
It's like they're asking to be shilled-up and fleeced.
There's nowt so strange as folk, as my old Nan used to say. |
Auction Sniper recently introduced another way of getting u to bid more by saying you can now make further bids above your snipe bid by 2 increments as a minimum and it can go on and on, this is no different in someways to what the discussion is about in that the bidders are not using a snipe just either adding a late bid or saying i am not going to hang around all night i am bidding x and have decided i will go to x + y. I do not see too much wrong with that as the bidder is prepared in advance to pay out a bit more but if in doing this he is putting someone off then his MO has worked and put the willies up a prospective competitor who may well back out or see the red mist and want to grind him into the dust-either way the seller is in a win-win situation.
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Fishy
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 4:16 pm
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Pete’s Picture Palace wrote: |
Fishy wrote: |
Sometimes I think hat the initial bid is to stop the item being sold outside of Ebay - I have done this myself and then I come back to the item at the end.
Why the second bid comes so quickly I haven't a clue about. Although someone who I bid against sometimes is not always available near the end of the auction, and so bids up before time. |
Fishy, when I saw your name on this thread I thought it was some kind of hook! |
_________________ Millwall league AWAYS wanted
45/6 Newport; Swansea; Leicester.
47/8 Coventry.
48/9 Newport.
49/0 Walsall; Exeter.
50/1 Port Vale.
51/2 Port Vale 1/5.
52/3 Swindon. |
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 4:26 pm
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I must confess, I'm of the "keep your powder dry until the very end" type of bidder.
I prefer to steam in with ten seconds left, at the most I'm prepared to pay.
Then if I win it all good & well, if not, I won't dwell on it.
It's not only about pinching the item, but a necessity to keep the price down and stop myself getting caught up in a big-dick-contest bidding war.
Because let's face it, we're all capable of getting carried away, it's in our DNA as footy fans!!
Like Fishy, I too have often placed a minimum bid to hopefully dissuade the seller from ending an item early, before popping back at the death with my "real" bid. _________________ NEWPORT COUNTY & GENERAL FOOTY BADGES:
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Wullie
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:54 pm
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Yes i agree it could work both ways. In that a bidder is stating his intentions to scare off other bidders. But an unscrupulous seller ( do they exist ?) could always get a "friend" to knock up the price at no chance of ending up with egg on their face by buying their own item . ( Which if happened they could always offer the item to the second bidder anyway ) |
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Tynie Topics
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:19 am
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Like others, I’ve done this ie put in a bid and then topped up the bid close to the end.
It’s mostly down to the fact that I quite fancy the item but there is other stuff ending before that one and I can’t afford it all, so I’m waiting to see the outcome of those before going in with my “real” bid later. Sometimes I decide not to increase my first bid due to other successes and I either get it for a really good price with my initial bid, or I get outbid and it goes for what I was expecting it to and I lose out. C’est la vie.
There’s is also the odd occasion when I go in with a bid, but then decide that I need to go a little more to get it so I go in again and top it up, particularly if I’m not going to be around when the auction finished. I don’t use snipers. _________________ https://www.flickr.com/photos/footballprogrammes/albums |
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Wullie
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 7:19 pm
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I think we all have our own tactics. Since I've been buying for years i have tried all the tricks . I'm sure eBay has kept many psychologists amused for years. |
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