Who else uses AuctionStealer on eBay? :-)

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think you are trying to reinvent the wheel. Ebay's proxy bidding already does that for you. Enter the amount you're willing to pay and forget it. If you win at lower price great, if you loose, oh well. Only the dumba$$es that are willing overpay would fight the proxy bid.

True. But there sure are a lot of dumbasses, aren't there? Sites like that keep your name off the screen until the last 5 seconds or so. That can be to your advantage.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think you are trying to reinvent the wheel. Ebay's proxy bidding already does that for you. Enter the amount you're willing to pay and forget it. If you win at lower price great, if you loose, oh well. Only the dumba$$es that are willing overpay would fight the proxy bid.

but not everyone bids that way.

What if I think it's worth 30 bucks and you think it's worth 35. I bid 15 to keep the price low and no one else bids till you snipe @ 1 minute left your bid is 35 BUT you only pay 16 because I only bid 15 and I didn't have time to bid it up.

Now if you had put in your max bid I would have bid it up to 30 so you would have paid 31 because I saw I was out bid so I upped it.

This really preys on those people that try to get a really good deal and have no idea how the process works.

 

[RossMAN]

This is so annoying.

AuctionStealer.com was down earlier today and is down again now!

I think we'll start using JustSnipe.com more and more often.

 

[Eli]

You guys can snipe my auctions all you want.

Anybody interested in a glass beading kiln?

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think you are trying to reinvent the wheel. Ebay's proxy bidding already does that for you. Enter the amount you're willing to pay and forget it. If you win at lower price great, if you loose, oh well. Only the dumba$$es that are willing overpay would fight the proxy bid.

That's exactly why you DON'T proxy-bid.

I just bought a golf club recently. The auction sat there all week at 22.00. The last day it got up to 23.00. I figured that the person who was high bidder probably had a max amount set around 25-26 bucks.
I was willing to pay up to 35.00 for it. I could have put in 35.00, and waited......and the guy who had his proxy set at 26.00 might have thought "Maybe I'll pay 30.00 for it".....and come in and bid 30.00.

Now, I still would have won the auction, since my proxy was 35.00, but I would have paid 31.00 for a club that, due to a last-second hand-snipe, I got for 27.00.
No reason to pay more than necessary.

 

[Yossarian]

right, the only way proxy bidding is to your advantage is if everyone always uses it. stupid game theory!!!

 

[screw3d]

Auctionstealer hasn't worked for me yet.. coz all the ebay dumba$$es are bidding at prices higher than they could get in other online outlets... meh

 

[wfbberzerker]

manual sniping all the way baby.