ebay bidding strategies...
 

Let me here from some ebay gurus.

Do you "watch" a sell until the last minute then bid?

I usually think this is good but I thought about something else.

Maybe it's good to bid early and then quit.
If the other high bidders reneg or cancel or whatever, then you
might get the item for the low price.

Does this ever happen?

Place your initial mark your territory bid, somewhere around half of what you are willing to pay. Do not go with less.
Set up your sniping program to your max bid and then go to sleep.

What I do is finalize how much I am willing to pay, whatever I can live with, and rarely (if ever) go above that. I find that price out by doing a tiny bit of research compared to how much the item is (retail) and how much the average sale price is in the completed auctions section. I then base my buy price at or slightly below the average the completed auction section. I use a program to then bid for me within the last five seconds of auction ending (using a sniping program).

I rarely, if ever, go back to the auction after I have finalized the price in the sniping program. This ensures that I won?t be tempted to bid more (thus wasting money). If I don?t win the item I?ll just input another one in the sniping program? sometimes I?ll have more than one of the same item if they are ending on the same day and if one of the items wins the others I have cancel themselves so I don?t end up buying more than what I need.

WTF? I don't have any sniping program.

Maybe I better stay the fuck off ebay...you guys sound like you have the capability to shoot me in the ass if I try to out bid you.

Damn, this shit is more hardcore than Iraq.

esnipe.com if you really want what you are bidding on