Is it better to bid early or snipe bid on Ebay, in your opinion?

I always snipe. Why give others the opportunity to drive the bid higher when I can just sneak in with 30 seconds to spare and grab it? I would say just start with going in at, say, 1 minute to spare and see how long it takes your computer/web browser to process it... get to know approximately how long it takes your bid to go through normally.

Add about 10 seconds to that and you'll have an idea of how close to the end you can bid.

I'm another who votes to snipe. (Man, that sounds evil though! ) I've found many times that when I bid on it item early, the price got driven much higher than if I had waited til the last minute.

While I don't use a tool for it, I still get in there at the last minute whenever possible. And if I miss it, well, maybe I didn't need it that bad in the first place.

I like sniping much better because when you bid early others can bid you up higher than you would normally pay if you just used a sniping website such as auctionsniper. I believe that I actually save money by using the sniping tool. It is also easier and saves me time in the long run.

I have been on Ebay for over 5 years and have been sniping auctions for about 3 years now.

The way I win is pure stealth. Do not show any trail, don't tip anybody off that you are looking. Just one bid, highest price you want pay, a few seconds before the end.

Set up alerts in settings so that you know when you are out bid waiting. If I am around I log on to watch. auctionsoftwarereview.com/software/gixen... But another sniper technique .. Manually bid (not my maximum) on an item to get a feel where the current bids are in price and to get it into MyeBay screen so that I get notifications when I am outbid, etc… I will usually manually bid in small increments until I am the highest bidder.

Watch the bidding history. Does the previous bidder jump in and outbid me? Are there more than 1 or 2 people bidding on the item.

Set my snipe with the maximum that I will pay based on what I know about the item, research I have done on others that are on the site, activity from the bidders, etc… I always place my MAXIMUM bid into Gixen because you don’t get a second chance. projectspossible.com/gixen-free-ebay-sni....

It depends. In the case of a commodity item on which I'm just trying to get the best deal, I always snipe. That way, if I'm just a little bit cheaper than the person who ends up winning, it's no big deal -- another one will come along -- and I won't have overspent.In the case of a rare or unique item that I'd be bummed to miss out on because I was outbid at the last minute, I typically "snipe and smother" -- basically, in any auction with more than five or six active bidders, it seems like the clearing price jumps about an average of 10% in the final rally (more, perhaps, depending on item rarity and number of players).

In these cases, I'll figure out what my absolute maximum is, even if it's significantly higher than the current bid, and jump to that at the latest possible "safe" point to bid. Typically, if it's something I'm serious about winning, the rally in the final seconds won't catch up to my maximum price. Someone with a better grounding in economics and game theory than me ought to do (maybe has done?

) a study of whether it's better to just set that maximum bid early, or to wait till the last minute to set it. Intuition suggests the latter, but you never know...

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