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BIDDING TIPS

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EBay used to be an auction only web site.  Since they introduced Buy It Now, most purchases have become BIN.  That means that auctions, which usually ask less $, are being ignored and often get no bids.  If you reconsider auctions again, you have a much better chance of winning than you used to.

AUCTIONS: A case for early bidding.

Watch List: Many bidders are putting items on their WATCH List and then they wait until the very end to bid. There are advantages and disadvantages to this approach. The advantage is that you are not driving up the price by bidding with your competition. The disadvantage is that bidders often forget to keep track of their watched items and find out too late that the item sold for less than you would have been willing to pay, or it didnt sell at all and you could have had it for the minimum bid.The solution to this dilemma:  Bid just the minimum bid amount early on. This doesnt prevent you from also bidding at the end, and it doesnt drive up the price because it is just the minimum. Also, if you tend to lose track of what is on your WATCH LIST, then you wouldnt have to worry about losing an item that receives no other bids because you would already have bid. Even the most careful bidder can have an unforeseen interruption that prevents him/her from bidding and lose the item altogether.

When you bid, it locks in the sellers description.  It can only be added to only at the very bottom of the page where no one looks.  If you see an error that may discourage bidding, (spelling etc) it is to your advantage to force that error to remain because other bidders may then miss it altogether.   An early bid also prevents the seller from later adding a Buy It Nowto a listing that someone else may see before you do and grab it.  It must remain an auction if it has a bid and cannot disappear because someone emailed the seller with a good offer.

Decide on your maximum:  If you bid at the very end, bid the maximum.  If you really bid your maximum, you wont need to feel bad if the item was outbid. Someone else may seem to have outbid you by so little, but you dont know how high the other bidder actually bid.

If you want it no matter what it costs:  If money is no object and you must have an item no matter what it costs, Then bid some ridiculously high amount that no one else would possibly bid.