 Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 2:35 pm Post subject: |
|
| jesusdrummer,
Why don't you just snipe your max amount plus whatever increment is? For example, if you wish to snipe for 50.00, then put 51.00 instead. |
|
| Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject: |
|
| We ALL save so much money by bidding here, that it should be easy to bid a wee bit higher than normal for those auctions we don't want to lose.
Right?! |
|
| Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 11:48 am Post subject: |
|
| (bump)
I've hit this problem a number of times. (Just today, in fact.) I understand the technical complexities involved with doing a last second check-and-round-up, but that's part of what I'm looking for in a sniping service. If nothing else, make the bid at 10 seconds, if eBay returns an error about the bid being under the asking price, immediately re-bid at the asking price. For the record, I'm a 2 or 3 (don't recall exactly) year Pro user. I love Gixen and I'd happily toss in some extra coin each year to you guys to get an "even more pro" service. Kind regards, Josh |
|
| Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:09 am Post subject: |
|
| Yes, *oldstuff would have won had his bid been placed earlier and, yes, setting your offset to 8 or 10 seconds would confer the advantage of the earlier bid. There are several, if not many, bidders who do this. | |
| Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:01 am Post subject: |
|
| Just a question - Would oldstuff have won the auction if his bid came in earlier than the winning bid? (See oldstuff's complaint for the background).
It seems that in this case - it was a situation of the earlier bid winning. This is one reason why I'm thinking of having my bids set at 10 seconds or 8 seconds as opposed to 6 seconds. ie. coming in first in this situation is better than having a higher bid. I've won some auctions where my final winning bid was the same as my rival's bid. But because my bid came in first, it knocked out my rival's bid. So you have a peculiar case of my winning bid and my rivals bid being the same price. |
|
| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
|
| Bujuk,
Why don't you just snipe your max amount plus whatever increment is? For example, if you wish to snipe for 50.00, then put 51.00 instead. |
|
| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Automatic bid increment |
|||
This requires the server to check the value of the current price of the auction against your bid just before placing your bid. If your bid is greater than the current price but less than the current price plus a bid increment, then the server would have to raise your bid by "a little". Here are some problems that would have to be overcome. 1. Gixen would have to have a lookup table for bid increments corresponding to all the various currencies of auctions. While this could be done, it is a non-trivial task. 2. Since we are talking money here, the amount corresponding to "a little" would have to be clearly specified; otherwise, the user could complain that Gixen bid too high. Presumably, this should be entered explicitly by the user, requiring another field of data Gixen has to track. 3. There would still be no protection from other snipers bidding after Gixen checks the current price but before it places the bid. There would also not be any protection against a proxy bid that is much higher than the current price of the auction: you would still lose. 4. Checking the current price is very expensive in terms of server resources. In fact, Gixen only checks the current price every three hours or so as a batch job in order to reduce the load on the server. If it would really bother you that someone else wins for $9.51 when you bid $10.00, then bid $11.00. In other words, if you regret losing, then you didn't bid high enough. The responsibility of figuring out how high "high enough" is lies with the bidder, not Gixen. |
|||
| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject: Automatic bid increment |
|
| Some other sniping services have it as an option you can choose that your highest amount is raised a little if its necessary to overcome the bid increment rule. So, if you are bidding on something small, and you put $10, it would piss you off that someone wins it for $9.51 because the increment is 50 cents, and your bid is 1 cent short of it. So I would really suggest to add this as an option. I would definitely use it! | |
| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:51 am Post subject: Re: I placed a higher bid but someone got it for less? |
|||||
Don't forget that different eBay sites has different increment tables. |
|||||
| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:35 pm Post subject: Re: I placed a higher bid but someone got it for less? |
|||||
The big thing you are missing is found on eBay's Bid Increment page, at pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bid-increments.html That page tells you that if the bid is between $1000 and $2500, a bid must be at least $25 over the current bid for it to count. In your case, your bid would have had to be $1754 or higher to count. Perhaps it would be a good thing for Gixen to display the minimum bid needed to win, with an explanation like this:
|
|||||
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: |
|
| On eBay you dont just have to be the highest bid, you have to outbid the current auction price by at least one bid increment, otherwise eBay rejects the bid entirely.
So the status you received of 'Under Asking Price' is correct even though you were prepared to pay more than the winner ended up paying. |
|
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: I placed a higher bid but someone got it for less? |
|
| I was wondering why when I put in a bid of $1739.36 the item was won by someone else for $ $1736.00 ?. The status says Bid Under Asking Price but there was no reserve on the item or it had already been met ? I've been using this service and it has been working just fine until now , what am I missing? | |