Buying on ebay protocal question

[billknepp]

rest assured if I want an item bad enough you can bump all ya like.... But time will be on my side and the deciding factor! that email was not at all anything nice! Still can't believe how po'ed the guy was, Mel Gibson had nothing on him!!

[Bakerloo]

Be careful when bidding your max amount, watch that decimal. I found a SB 290 bamboo rod that I wanted last year with
3-4hrs left on the auction. I put in my max bid but missed the decimal. Instead of my max bid being $200, it was $2000 and I didn't realize it. The last minute bidding frenzy started and I watched my max go by the wayside. However, it kept showing me as the high bidder. After I won, I saw what I had done. I paid a little more than I wanted, but it did sell at a fair price.

[kbproctor]

I do a manual snipe kind of thing and rarely miss. I do miss once in a while, but not often. Those that place a max bid can be picked out of the crowd by looking at the bid history. I pay a lot of attention to the numbers to the right of the decimal point. They will tell you how folks are bidding. I also wait until the last moment to enter my max bid. I do not want others knowing I am stalking the item and running the bid up. If the item goes over what I am willing to pay, I just never bid on it.

[maodiver]

http://auctionsniper.com/

My brother uses this. They do add a percentage or a flat fee to the end of the auction price, though