concerned about not understanding "grouping"

asdf1976 · Guest

Hi, I'm a new user of Gixen and I've just paid the $6 to have the mirror service. I'm reading a lot about "group bidding" but I have no idea what it means.

In about 8 hours, I have set bids on Gixen for 10 different items, all from the one seller and all of which end within a minute of each other...I am concerned that something to do with "grouping" is going to happen which I have no idea of.

I keep reading that if you lose a bid from the same seller, than all other bids are cancelled...i would be HORRIFIED if this happened to me as I do not want it to.

Can someone please advise ?

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7956 Location: Bristol, UK

Grouping is used when you only want to win one item in the group, to do that you assign an item to a group when you set up a snipe on Gixen. For instance if you want to win 1 new car... not all of the ones that your are interested in bidding on you assign all those snipes to the same Group.

You should NOT assign a Group to your snipes if you want to win all of them, as in your case.
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mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7254

asdf1976,

Don't worry about groups. Grouping you have to explicitly select. If you have not done this, all snipes are single snipes.

I have no idea where you read that if you lose a bid from one seller, that all other bids are canceled with the same seller. Such feature does not exist.

Thank you for subscribing - schedule your snipes and stop worrying. For every post and/or failure you see about in the forum, there are literally thousands of wins. For example, only in the last 48 hours Gixen won 9,300 auctions.

Guest · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:17 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the replies and reassurances...I've had a closer look now and I can see where you set bids to be grouped (I hadn't even noticed that before)...and I think I've figured out how and why you do it.

I think I was making the mistake of assuming that "grouping" meant items all from one seller, but I can now see that (I) would create the group myself...and the seller(s) is actually irrelevant...I think...LOL

Anyway, I'm not anxious any more.

Thanks again Smile

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