I'm in the USA, can i bid on Australia eBay?

thosebackpages · Guest

Was wondering if anything special needed to be done.

Thanks,
Eric

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7267

Nothing special is required, just add the item. If you can add it to Gixen, Gixen will snipe it.

Guest · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 4:01 pm Post subject:

I lost this one - here was the result in the Gixen email to me:

Item: 221705468894
Title: ONE 5R4 GY BRIMAR TUBE USED TESTED Status (main): BID UNDER ASKING PRICE Status (mirror): BID UNDER ASKING PRICE Your maximum bid: 63.51 Current price: 63.00

This was on ebay.com but in Canadian dollars. Another is coming up in British pounds that I would like to snipe. Can this be related to currency differences? An anomaly? Something else?

Thanks.....

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7267

Bid increment in that price range is CAD 1.00.

Please see http://pages.ebay.ca/help/buy/bid-increments.html

You can see the same table for GBP-listed auctions at:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/bid-increments.html

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Guest · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:05 am Post subject:

I see. Thanks Mario.

It's confusing as I entered that bid well before the high bid approached that level.

I did enter a snipe for the auction in British Pounds and it worked fine.

Ramona · Guest

If you used Gixen to place the bid, then it doesn't matter what level the bid was at when you entered it in Gixen - the only thing that matters is what the bid is at the moment that Gixen places its snipe bid on eBay.

So if the high bid had risen to $63 in the period between you typing your bid into Gixen and the time that Gixen placed its snipe, then eBay would not accept your $63.51 bid because it was less than one bid increment above the high bid at the time that the bid was placed (by Gixen) on eBay.