Thread: Ebay app NO GOOD

Originally Posted by Phrank

I never use a sniping tool, as whoever has the highest bid at the last second wins.

Sniping only works if the bid maximum is higher than the bid placed at the last second, if I submit my last bid when the clock hit's 2s and it's higher than all the other final bids, highest bidder wins - sniping tool or not, never lost a razor I really wanted to win.

That's the key right there Andrew, you won't lose if you really want it, Tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

That's the key right there Andrew, you won't lose if you really want it, Tc

LOL - can't remember if it was 10Pups or JimmyHAD who mentioned once that someone used to routinely just set the max bid at say $1,000 at the last couple of secs, knowing that it might end up $10, $20, $50 bucks more when the auction ended, until that bidder ran into someone did the exact same thing, and the one who ebay registered as the last bidder ended up winning with a final bid of $1,000 USD.

After I read that, was the last time I did something even remotely close to using that tactic.....

I always bid the max I'm willing to pay, but I won't make that bid until the last few seconds. Why? Because bidding early allows someone else to inch the price up, trying to find your maximum instead of just bidding a low price and then hope they get it. I use sniping software so I don't have to sit at the computer in the middle of the night when the auction ends.

Strangely enough, most things I seem to find interesting on Ebay are "Buy It Now" postings and if I want it and the price is fine, I just buy it. I think it's been more than 2 years since I last used my sniping program.

Regards

Christian

So I too dislike the App after having recently just downloaded so that I could check things at work during break in lieu of waiting until I'm home. I've never been a fan of snipping and don't really agree with the concept but it seems to be the norm. My complaint with it is a little different in that I put in my max bid and stick to it, then next thing I know I have several items in my app that appear as outbid that I can't hide cluttering up the items I'm watching unlike the website where I can hide those I'm no longer interested in because they are above my max. It's like the app encourages snipping which I hate. Errrr...

Originally Posted by Phrank

LOL - can't remember if it was 10Pups or JimmyHAD who mentioned once that someone used to routinely just set the max bid at say $1,000 at the last couple of secs, knowing that it might end up $10, $20, $50 bucks more when the auction ended, until that bidder ran into someone did the exact same thing, and the one who ebay registered as the last bidder ended up winning with a final bid of $1,000 USD.

After I read that, was the last time I did something even remotely close to using that tactic.....

Wade Butcher's 8 8 Shave Ready | eBay

Ok, what am I missing here. This auction here sounded similar to the scenerio you talked about. However, there was a bid placed after it hit $3507. So why would someone pay $3757 for a $200 razor??? Holy smokes, this ebay stuff is getting ridiculous!

Originally Posted by prodigy

Wade Butcher's 8 8 Shave Ready | eBay

Ok, what am I missing here. This auction here sounded similar to the scenerio you talked about. However, there was a bid placed after it hit $3507. So why would someone pay $3757 for a $200 razor??? Holy smokes, this ebay stuff is getting ridiculous!

O M G !!!!!



Well there's two default payments....sheesh, for that price, I'd even part with one of mine!

Originally Posted by prodigy

Wade Butcher's 8 8 Shave Ready | eBay

Ok, what am I missing here. This auction here sounded similar to the scenerio you talked about. However, there was a bid placed after it hit $3507. So why would someone pay $3757 for a $200 razor??? Holy smokes, this ebay stuff is getting ridiculous!

You know that saying that it takes two people to make an argument? Well, it takes two idiots to make an eBay seller VERY HAPPY!!!!!!

I use Gixen sniper. No problems with it. You just put in your max bid any time befor bidding ends and you can forget about the thing until you find a mail from ebay you won or were outbid.

I use my Android powered Galaxy S3 for everything. Yes, even all of my posts here . Anyway. I've tried all three flavors of the bay: app, mobile site, and "desktop version" site. They ALL three return different results, with different sorting/priority to what is returned from any sort of query (i.e. searches AND browsing by category)!

The app was junky, used too many resources on my phone, and included permissions that would allow them to track my activities & habits.

The mobile site is just "meh". It is more responsive, in my experience, than the app. But refining results is, at best clunky & unrefined. I'd say is only has about a fourth (and I'm being generous) of the options that the full sote gives you access to for narrowing results. A great example: I can search by location (like if I put in my zip), but the results that come back are not sorted by any of the following: distance, price, time left, auction vs. BIN!!! It's just some random frackin cacophony of listings!

I have found the full/desktop site to be the most effective and usable of the three. The largest downside I've found thus far is that I can't simply double-tap to quickly zoom in to a comfortable readability like on the mobile site. Instead, pinch-zoom is required. Ah well . Could be that the site is irritated by my screen size, and the two are giving each other fits. Still works.

Y'all should give each one 5 to 10 minutes of feature testing, just to see the vast differences I'm referring to.

Originally Posted by Utopian

You know that saying that it takes two people to make an argument? Well, it takes two idiots to make an eBay seller VERY HAPPY!!!!!!

The razor has been re-listed. Apparently both idiots backed out when they found out the folly of their strategy which was...

Razor is currently at $700. Idiot1 figures he'll guarantee a winning bid by putting in a high bid of $3507--he doesn't want to pay that much but knows eBay will put him over anyone else's last minute snipe and he will win. Enter Idiot2, who intended to use the exact same strategy but with a slightly higher bid of say, $1,000,000. Again, he does not plan on paying that much but he knows it will guarantee his win.

As soon as Idiot1 places his bid, he becomes the high bidder at $750 and he sits there as the high bidder right up until Idiot2 enters his bid, thinking he will win the razor for somewhere around $760-$800, not realizing that there already was an idiot in the game.

Ebay should block both of those idiots or else for the winner to pay.