Need some advise on How to win a eBay auction without breaking the Bank ;-)

Have a few browsers open, click at the very end.

Hi Michael,

Put in a bid at the lowest possible price now and then watch it.

Wait until right near the end and then put in your highest bid about 90 seconds from the end and you should win - if not, then it will have gone over your top price.

I've done this a few times and bagged some nice bargains!

Cheers

Jason

Snipe progams work well, I would recommend checking out the completed auctions by going to the advanced search, log in and find what the item has sold for recently,
What I do to get the best price is I focus on all the itmes sold at lowest price. What I am looking for is the keyword for the lowest priced sold.

I'll search for those keywords, I'll find the listings with poor quality keywords, find the listing then, you got it I'll snipe it on esnipe.com.

When Snipe bidding I also keep in mind when the average price the items sold for in the past from the completed auctions listings. Give them an average price max bid tell the snipe program to place auction bid 6 seconds prior to the end of the auction and then keep my fingers crossed!


Good luck,
Michael

I am a "last minute" bidder and have won a lot of items on eBay this way, I leave myself a sticky on my desktop with a link to the item and the end time, then when the auction has about 1 minute left I place my bid ... Works about 90% of the time for me.

Here are the strategies that I use.

1) Do not bid on the item AT ALL until the last minute. This only serves to drive the price up and alert the other bidders of your interest. If the other bidder thinks no one else is interested, they will get careless, and may not be present at the end of the auction which is the most important time.

2) On the day of the finish, open up the page TWICE, so that you have two windows open on the same auction. Open them up at least an hour before the end of the auction. Keep them open and do not close. If you keep closing and opening these windows, it will increase the hits on the hit counter, and if another bidder is watching this (I do), it will alert them to your presence and interest.

3) You are going to manually snipe the auction. One window is open to refresh the countdown timer, and one window is open to place your bid. Resize the windows so they fit in your screen and that you can see the relevant information.

4) Decide beforehand the MAXIMUM you will go to. In your case you have specified $299. This is a common psychological figure and it could be likely that someone else would input a similiar figure. If they enter the same amount, but do it before you, then they win. So choose an unusual amount, like $303.92, which is nominally over your max amount.

5) In one window, place your bid, BUT DO NOT CONFIRM. You use the other window to refresh, refresh, refresh, and when there are 5 seconds to go you hit the CONFIRM button to confirm your bid.

Most of the time you will win using this strategy!

I think I have annoyed quite a few people using this!

Matt