How do i always get outbid on ebay

Some people, including eBay, try to simplify this by drawing an analogy to an outcry auction, but one where eBay "places bids on your behalf" up to your maximum bid. This is an imperfect analogy, and in many cases people trying to apply it to a particular situation end up either oversimplifying or overcomplicating the process leading to many many misconceptions.

If you want to understand how the eBay bidding process happens you need to get away from that analogy. It is not necessary to understand it if you know and use the winning strategy below and are willing to accept the results as accurate even though you don't understand how they were arrived at. Since what anyone else has or will have bid by the time the auction ends is already figured into the price if you win, there is no need to try to figure it into your bid other than to assume that someone else is likely to bid about the same amount as you, so it is a good tactic to bid a bit over the round number you likely have in mind as your true maximum to increase your odds of being on the winning side of what might have been a tie ; all you need to figure is at what price point you would rather someone else get the item than you having to pay more.

When you bid, early or late, or whether you put in a lesser bid s before your true maximum, those are tactical matters that may or may not influence the behavior of others other bidders, potential bidders, and the seller to your advantage or disadvantage. Due to the age of the thread, it has been closed to further replies.

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Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Why am I being outbid everytime back to back seconds between??? Ok so ebay has changed I been off for a long time. Are people cheating or what?? So I type 3. How is it this person is outbidding me milliseconds after each of my back to back bids And if it's true that a person has put And why is there no option for me to put highest price willing to pay?

Is this a program?? It doesn't really make it technically an auction. It's cheating? Explain please what is going on?? Comments 1. Amen to this its something I started to pick up on I I truly believe it's a scam. Accepted Solutions 0. Answers 9. Comments 3. This is a non sence and choulded be prohibited , one of the major rules at commerce it is.

This is a non sence and choulded be prohibited , one of the major rules at commerce it is chould be provided to the bayer the maximun information and this last must be clear , this is a plot. It's known as Proxy Bidding, and it has been going on since the invention of auctions. I do it all the time here and I do it for people at my local auctions. Friends do it for me too when I can't get to an auction before it starts. I'll give them a limit and they will bid u to that for me. Nothing wrong with the system at all.

If that sounds like too much of a conspiracy theory, consider this: I copy the links of items I'm interested in. I've got to get suspicious. Especially when I check links I Didn't bid on, for the same seller, and I see the same pattern. These are the sellers I stop bidding with - permanently. Example 2 PLEASE, don't even try to tell me some mass-sellers don't have the technological capability to set up automated bids.

In the last 5 minutes, increase your Max Bid to a price that is a much higher amount than the current high bid. Even if you are the highest bidder, you can increase your Max Bid. One strategy is to put in a super-high Max Bid, so that a sniper won't be able to overbid in the final seconds. Keep in mind, however, this could mean you end up paying more than you planned for the item.

In the final 15 minutes of a listing you will see a "Refresh" link appear on the page of the item that you want to win. By clicking on this button every second, you will be able to see at the top of the page the current bid price, bid history, time left and high bidder. This is as "realtime" as you can get in the bidding war in the final seconds.

Use the eBay Communication Tools to see when you are outbid so you can re-bid and stay competitive. You can set up your notification settings in the Account Tab under Communication Preferences. This will allow eBay to send you an email if you're outbid on a listing. You will also receive an email when your Max Bid is beaten by another bidder. It is not at all uncommon to be outbid immediately on eBay and to be outbid this way over and over again with repeated attempts to bid on the same listing.

This happens not because another bidder or the seller is cheating but rather because of the proxy bidding system that eBay uses, which allows users to set their maximum bid and increment of bid increase that is automatically applied when someone outbids them on an item. What this means for competing users is that every time you outbid another person with a higher maximum bid, the eBay proxy system will place a bid for that person resulting in an immediate outbid. The best way to get around this is to wait until the auction is almost over, set your maximum bid up as high as you're willing to go, and start bidding only when the auction draws to a close.

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