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[quote="Cupid"]In many ways Gixen is better than 'an electronic me'... you, for instance, may have decided at 6 seconds not to submit your higher bid because the price is still at $150... than perhaps another bidder has a scheduled bid at 5 seconds at just above your $175 bid, the result would be the other bidder wins at that amount... however Gixen will submit that $250 bid which upped your maximum, the result being that you still win at a price lower than you were willing to pay. If however that other bidder forgets to schedule their bid... even though your maximum bid is now $250 you will pay no more than the $150 you were going to pay when your maximum was only $175. This is a no loose situation for you... though I would not recommend having placed the $175 bid in the first place as that encourages others to bid against you in the hours before the auction closes. What Gixen can not do is place a bid that is lower than one you have already submitted... so had you already submitted a bid of $250, there would be no point in scheduling a $175 snipe bid via Gixen... unless you also cancelled that $250 bid before the auction finished... I wouldn't recommend that type of behaviour either.[/quote]
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Cupid
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:56 am
Post subject:
smellyegg0,
Rather than quibble about the semantics of the way you have used the words to simplify the explanation, it is probably best for me just to simply say 'Yes, you are correct'.
It is evident that what you have in your mind about what should happen under various circumstances is, in fact, what will happen... and the fact that they happen in a slightly different way from what you imagine is of little to no significance in this particular discussion.
smellyegg0
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:06 am
Post subject: The same query re bidding against myself!
So as i understand from the explanations above to put it more simply ( as getting a bit confusing!)
If i have already bid on an item directly through eBay and my maximum bid is GBP 60 on that....
Then if i set up a snipe for the same item in Gixen but raise the high bid to say GBP 70. Then gixen will not outbid my own bid that i made on eBay, but it will use the highest bid to outbid against others seconds before the item ends?
Correct?
Thanks for your help. Am new to this too!
Cupid
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 3:42 am
Post subject:
In many ways Gixen is better than 'an electronic me'... you, for instance, may have decided at 6 seconds not to submit your higher bid because the price is still at $150... than perhaps another bidder has a scheduled bid at 5 seconds at just above your $175 bid, the result would be the other bidder wins at that amount... however Gixen will submit that $250 bid which upped your maximum, the result being that you still win at a price lower than you were willing to pay.
If however that other bidder forgets to schedule their bid... even though your maximum bid is now $250 you will pay no more than the $150 you were going to pay when your maximum was only $175. This is a no loose situation for you... though I would not recommend having placed the $175 bid in the first place as that encourages others to bid against you in the hours before the auction closes.
What Gixen can not do is place a bid that is lower than one you have already submitted... so had you already submitted a bid of $250, there would be no point in scheduling a $175 snipe bid via Gixen... unless you also cancelled that $250 bid before the auction finished... I wouldn't recommend that type of behaviour either.
mario
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:59 am
Post subject:
Even if you are the highest bidder at the time Gixen submits your (higher) maximum bid, all that's going to happen is that your maximum bid will be increased. The actual high bid (amount to pay at the auction end) will remain the same.
revilo
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:30 am
Post subject: My bid and my Glixen bid
Thank you for the very prompt reply. I know that I can keep increasing my bid to raise my max bid, but was a bit unsure as to whether Glixen would know that I was the highest bidder at the end of the auction and try to outbid me.
To put it my way, Glixen is really an electronic me and I, as you say, can't bid myself up.
Thanks
Tony
mario
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 11:38 pm
Post subject:
Tony, you cannot bid against yourself. As long as you use the same username, you can mix your own manual bidding with Gixen bidding, with no ill effect. Both submission can only raise your maximum bid, not the actual amount you end up paying. This depends on other bidders only.
revilo
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 11:32 pm
Post subject: My bid and my Glixen bid
This is the first time I have done this. I have put in a max bid of $175 on an item, then set Glixen to snipe at a max bid of $250. If I am the high bidder at, lets say, $150, at the end of the auction will Glixen try to outbid my $175 max bid at the last few seconds. I am obviously a bit confused here and have probably done the wrong thing.
I am just trying to hedge my bets, rather foolishly you may think.
Tony
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