Nick P. ™ asked:
im on ebay bidding for a lawn tractor, then these robot computers things like raise my bid, thne i add 5 bucks and it still raises me again, until i met the deadline, but wondering how to people do these computer robot things on ebay to automatically bid???
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im on ebay bidding for a lawn tractor, then these robot computers things like raise my bid, thne i add 5 bucks and it still raises me again, until i met the deadline, but wondering how to people do these computer robot things on ebay to automatically bid???
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its called your maximum bid if the price of an item is at 20 dollars and they put a maximum bid of 30 the item stays at 20 until someone bids 21 persay ebay will automatically outbid that some one by putting down 22 dollars this will happen until someone surpasses the winning bidders maximum bid(30$) learn to use it it will help against last minute bidders………… if you still dont understand think of it this way a person puts ow much their willing to spend ebay will keep automatically bidding for them until their price limit is passed
November 26th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Actually, it has nothing to do with that. The person you are bidding against had placed a bid significantly higher than what was shown. It is called proxy bidding. It will put his bid to whatever is needed to win the bidding at the moment. You then come in and start bidding. It shows that this other person has outbid you. It will continue to do so until you over bid them.
Example:
Items bidding starts at $5. Someone proxy bids $45. It shows that they’re at $5 because that’s the highest they need to win the auction currently. You come in and bid $10. It now shows that they’ve bid $11 as it’s still less than $45, but enough to keep winning. You add another $10, now it shows they’re at $22. Once you bid $46, then it will show you as the winner of the “bid war”, but not necessarily the auction.
Basically, this person has put up how much they’re willing to pay for the item right up front. This will allow them to more freedom of time. They don’t have to come back to the auction every 10 minutes to check if someone’s beat them.
Hope this helps.
Fac
November 27th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
It’s called ‘automatic bidding’ or ‘proxy bidding’.
Instead of bidding up one step (or ‘increment’) at a time, all that the other bidders have done is to enter the maximum price that they’re willing to bid up to and eBay does the rest.
You can do this yourself by simply entering your maximum bid rather than adding $5 a time.
More info and an explanation of how automatic bidding works here:
November 28th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
This is the way how eBay keeping your bid at the lowest possible to be the winner unless someone else bid higher.
An experienced bidder uses a so called “eBay sniper” or “bid sniper” technique which places their maximum bid at the last seconds so other bidders will not have time to response (if they placed a low bid from the beginning hoping to increase it later).
This way you have a higher chance not to be outbid by other bidders.
You can check out this free eBay sniper if you are interested:
November 30th, 2009 at 9:30 am