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[Vamps]

Thanks, that is what I am going to do, wait, as I keep getting outbid by £10 or even 89p, going to sit back and wait........ .Got to decide max bid, only a couple of months MOT and seemingly no tax

[Vamps]

I buy a lot from ebay, mostly BIN stuff, currently bidding on a car, there other bids but I cant tell if it is one or more people bidding as it simply says;

private listing - bidders' identities protected....

I am not sure I have seen this before... is this normal when bidding on a car? tis years since I last did.......Is there a way of seeing the bidders?

Seller has the option to keep private any bidders` identity, and no, you can`t see or find out who the bidders are

So it could even be the seller pushing me, been outbid twice, but just by a littl, I put in another £100 and I am winning again.................all good fun

Need a car transporter as well, now....

Try www.anyvan.com its a sort of reverse auction site for delivery. You put what you want shifted (i.e an Omega via trailer) with the 2 postcodes and then get notified of delivery costs
- which reduce as the other bidders see them also. I was looking to move a non-runner a distance of 120 miles and the price eventually came down to well under £100 - which I was impressed with for a one way service with isurance. HTH - Rob 

Thanks Rob, I would be quite happy at that sort of price, think it is about 100 miles....

[Big_Al]

Thanks, that is what I am going to do, wait, as I keep getting outbid by £10 or even 89p, going to sit back and wait........ .Got to decide max bid, only a couple of months MOT and seemingly no tax

Possibly sellers associate bidding it up 

what i would like to know is , & i am probably missing a fundemental point here , take the 3.2 that was bid up to £920 & won  last night .  tonight it is re listed . We see this happening time & time again ,  . . but  . . . what happens about the selling fee to e bay (£40 .00 ish I think on that sale )

anyone got any idea . . e bay must want there fee ?

[Vamps]

Thanks, that is what I am going to do, wait, as I keep getting outbid by £10 or even 89p, going to sit back and wait........ .Got to decide max bid, only a couple of months MOT and seemingly no tax

Possibly sellers associate bidding it up 

what i would like to know is , & i am probably missing a fundemental point here , take the 3.2 that was bid up to £920 & won  last night .  tonight it is re listed . We see this happening time & time again ,  . . but  . . . what happens about the selling fee to e bay (£40 .00 ish I think on that sale )

anyone got any idea . . e bay must want there fee ?

I think the seller says the buyer backed out, so no fees due, however if it goes through as a sale, which it should do, I don't know.............

[scimmy_man]

I always sell using the private seller thing, as I had one case where somone contacted the bidder and offered them the same item for cash cheaper, so they never turned up to collect, I was out £40 or so in fees.

[Big_Al]

I always sell using the private seller thing, as I had one case where somone contacted the bidder and offered them the same item for cash cheaper, so they never turned up to collect, I was out £40 or so in fees.

~Guessing that this was a good while ago as for  a long time now, when you look at the bidder list you only see a part of their e bay name, so for another party to contact them is almost impossible. Only the seller gets the bidders full e bay details.

From a sellers point of view . .  did you contact e bay & tell them the winning bidder had pulled out .

 I had a winning  buyer pull out when selling my daughters Micra. E bay contacted the winning bidder & my selling fee was not charged.

All this of course is assuming that it is e bay you are talking about

[scimmy_man]

it was a while ago, Ebay finally refunded my final fee but I still paid the listing fee.

[worzelof10acrefield]

Best thing to do on Egay is what i do. set yourself a top price. wait till the last 30 second and bid the full ammount you have set. but wait to confirm the bid in the last 10 seconds.
I have won lots of items for next to nothing this way.
If you are a seller then the early bidders are great for you as they are putting up the price.
If you are a buyer then this is more expensive for you.
Always leave your bid to the last seconds..

[bigegg]

Best thing to do on Egay is what i do. set yourself a top price. wait till the last 30 second and bid the full ammount you have set. but wait to confirm the bid in the last 10 seconds.
I have won lots of items for next to nothing this way.
If you are a seller then the early bidders are great for you as they are putting up the price.
If you are a buyer then this is more expensive for you.
Always leave your bid to the last seconds..

I use, and have used for the past ten years, a free program called "Bid o Matic" (or biet-o-matic) written by a some german bloke.
Autobids at a (programmable) 3 seconds before end of auction, you can put several auctions in group so it will autobid on them all until you win one of them.
Only downside is that your PC has to stay connected to the net, so if your connection goes down, or you switch of the computer, it won't bid.
Apart from that, I've been very happy with it - it's saved me a fair old amount of money, won me a lot of good stuff at cheap prices - often much less than my highest bid would have been.
Did I mention it's free?

[omega3000]

I usually bid in the last 10 seconds but you got to be quick on the mouse , ive won a few things for 99p in the last few months 

[Sir Tigger KC]

There's another auto bidder called Auction Sniper that bids in the last couple of seconds.  I hav'nt used it for a while but you don't need to be online, just input all the details and it does the rest! 

[scimmy_man]

you get 3 goes a week, and its free

[Vamps]

I buy a lot from ebay, mostly BIN stuff, currently bidding on a car, there other bids but I cant tell if it is one or more people bidding as it simply says;

private listing - bidders' identities protected....

I am not sure I have seen this before... is this normal when bidding on a car? tis years since I last did.......Is there a way of seeing the bidders?

Seller has the option to keep private any bidders` identity, and no, you can`t see or find out who the bidders are

So it could even be the seller pushing me, been outbid twice, but just by a littl, I put in another £100 and I am winning again.................all good fun

Need a car transporter as well, now....

Try www.anyvan.com its a sort of reverse auction site for delivery. You put what you want shifted (i.e an Omega via trailer) with the 2 postcodes and then get notified of delivery costs
- which reduce as the other bidders see them also. I was looking to move a non-runner a distance of 120 miles and the price eventually came down to well under £100 - which I was impressed with for a one way service with isurance. HTH - Rob 

Smashing link, thanks...........

[ozzycat]

some of them pull the item in the last mins if it isnt going to make there target saying item no longer available then relist it later on the same day i had this done to me 5 times on a merc iwas interested in the last time he contacted me and said i could have it for £100  more i told him where to go  mind you it would have been cheeper than the firf time i bidded on it

[worzelof10acrefield]

Thanks to bigegg
I now use the bid o matic program..
takes all the must be bidding at the time prob out of it. just set the price and leave it to it.....talk about easy.

Thanks....