Outbid Alert

[AvWants]

Is there a way for me to receive an email alert when the bidding on an item has exceeded the max bid I have loaded into Gixen? I have gone into Gixen a couple of times in the past to check the current high bid on an item and found that it had already exceeded my max bid. Luckiy I checked and could up my max bid, but I wouldn't have known if I hadn't checked. An email alert would sure be appreciated and would keep me from wondering and worrying about being outbid all the time.

[mario]

Yes - take a look at the settings page, there is a notification option. You require mirror subscription for this, however.

[Ramona]

[Rickajho]

[Gixen]

[Ramona]

[Cupid]

An interesting discussion.

I generally agree that basing your sniping on the early bidding activity, on a single auction, tends to be unwise.

However, I also tend to agree that if you find that your research has not been as exhaustive as you at first thought, or that there are aspects of the item for sale that others have spotted, and you had not, at first, then there can be some justification to revising your opinion on what something is worth, to you.

It is very rare for me to revise a snipe upwards, I can not remember having done so even once in the past few years, much more often I delete that snipe and move on, occasionally I place a early bid just to get one in at the rate I am prepared to pay, before it goes above that limit, and then delete the snipe. However, I do quite a lot of research on every item I take an interest in, which includes many websites other than just Ebay, and I also look at the market worldwide.
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Mark