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OK dumb question time. What is the difference between a sniping programme and submitting a max bid? Surely you set a maximum in the sniping programme?
OK dumb question time. What is the difference between a sniping programme and submitting a max bid? Surely you set a maximum in the sniping programme?
Still my fav eBay selling experience is when someone in the last few seconds (prob snipe) put in the bid for £30 on shoes I was selling
Buy them now was £25 lol
A sniping program doesn't actually register the bid until just before the listing closes.OK dumb question time. What is the difference between a sniping programme and submitting a max bid? Surely you set a maximum in the sniping programme?
OK dumb question time. What is the difference between a sniping programme and submitting a max bid? Surely you set a maximum in the sniping programme?
What you also have to remember is that if your early bid & the sniper's maximum are the same you win because the early bid trumps a later one of the same amount.A sniping program doesn't actually register the bid until just before the listing closes.
With a Max Bid, your bid is registered as soon as you make it - but only up to enough to become the high bidder (or to your max value if it is not greater than someone else's max bid - which is bumped up sufficiently to stay high bidder).
Are you sure you can withdraw a bid so easily & quickly? I don't think you can.One aspect a sniping programme means you do not need to be there when the auction ends whereas bidding in the dying seconds means you need to be there.
I have watched many an auction that is being shill bid, using a second identity to keep bidding to find out your or others maximum and deleting the bid once it becomes the winning bid.
Not universally. Some categories it stays until a bid above 50% of BIN is registeed.I often put in a very low bid to get rid of BINs in case somebody uses it then wait for the dying seconds to put in what I am prepared to pay.
Lots of people are clearly unaware that BIN is deleted after a bid.
Are you sure you can withdraw a bid so easily & quickly? I don't think you can.
ThanksNot universally. Some categories it stays until a bid above 50% of BIN is registeed.