I Really Like Ebay
I'm able to use it to get hard to find older things. Parts for my cars (an '86 and a '91), old NES games, an entertainment center that could hold my huge CRT television, CRT computer monitors, etc.. I...
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The point is that bots ruin it for the average person who signs in every once in a while to bid. Even if they bid with like...10 seconds left... a bot will usually steal that away from you. You'd have...
View ArticleRe: bleh.
Much of the time the Buy it Now price is only a few bucks higher than the final auction price depending on what you buy. Most importantly, there are so many people on eBay now that you have an absolute...
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Sometimes you can find some hard-to-find items on eBay, like camera equipment that is out of production, and get a good deal on it. But there are too many times that auctions mysteriously get bid up....
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eBay used to be a fair system. But then everyone went a developed a bunch of bots to automatically outbid you at the last second of the auction. It's impossible to win anymore so what's the point. Now...
View ArticleRe: Cure for sniping
That's no cure...that's a bigger problem...THE AUCTIONS WOULD NEVER END!
View ArticleRe: Online Auctions No Longer Fun
That's not always the case. Some of the merchants on there are quite legit and in some cases, charge a whole lot less than brick and mortar stores or even other web sites. My gripe has always been the...
View ArticleNeed it Now
eBay still has the advantage in being able to find almost anything you could possibly be looking for. Whatever it is, someone somewhere has one for sale. But I am not a collector on the "hunt", when I...
View ArticleOOP Books
Like others have said, eBay is useful to find those rare or outdated items. I recently bought an Out of Print book for a decent price. Here's a tip: you can create an RSS feed from any search or...
View ArticleRe: Re: Cure for sniping
Actually they will who ever is trying to cheat the system will get it but they will be paying closer to the max price they set for the item
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For awhile, I used Ebay as a store front. It worked decently well, I actually got a fair bit of traffic from it to my real website. I also made quite a few sales. The problem was I got a lot of bogus...
View ArticleRe: Too many cheaters
Sorry but there's absolutely nothing wrong with sniping. If you want to win an auction "honestly", put your full bid on there, if it doesn't win it wouldn't matter since the other party obviously...
View ArticleRe: Re: ebay, love/hate you
Then make a REAL bid, not something that just barely beats the current highest bid; if you want it that badly you should be willing to pay for it. If they bid more than you, regardless of when or how...
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Stop whining and make a real bid instead of just beating the highest bidder by 25 cents.
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Sniping never bothered me because I always put in my max bid first. If someone was willing to pay more than my max bid, let them have it. I don't bid more than once on an auction. What ruined it for me...
View ArticleRe: Re: Re: Cure for sniping
Quite. Even if you really did want to prevent the situation where two bots would continue to outbid each other (despite an escalating price no doubt well beyond market), you could say that an auction's...
View ArticleSniping is my life
I never bid before the last second, what is the point in showing your hand. What annoys me is shill bidding, that is: the practice of having your friends and associates bid the price up. I understand...
View Articlethe buyers are my problem...
My last two attempts at selling items on ebay were horrible. The buyers didn't pay, tried to contact them, didn't respond, I had to wait 7 days to offer to the next person. The second buyer didn't...
View ArticleRe: Online Auctions No Longer Fun
You hit the bullseye on that one. I still visit EBay around the holidays but its like you said, the prices don't beat what consumers can find in their local stores so they back away from it. Its not...
View ArticleeBay is it's own decline
I agree with the person who said they dislike the Fixed Price. If I wanted to do business with a business, I'd go to their store, and not eBay. I want auctions on eBay, and I basically just swim...
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Agree with the above bidder on the shipping charges. any item which is available elsewhere can usually be bought quicker and cheaper elsewhere. I used to collect certain rare and outdated items. Now I...
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Mmm... if you sell stuff on ebay, you risk being scammed. If you buy stuff on ebay you risk being scammed. And even if all goes well with the transaction, you risked being screwed by PayPal. It's a...
View ArticleEbay
I think Ebay is better now than ever. I love the new change to the way sellers can rate buyers, its more fair now. If sellers don't like it too bad...they brought it upon themselves
View ArticleI'm one of the
I was a heavy eBay using, starting all the way back in 1997 on dialup. I was such an avid user that I thought up the idea of (manual) snipping, simply waiting until the last 30 seconds until I made a...
View ArticleRe: the buyers are my problem...
"Now I use crag's list." I've never sold on ebay, but I have used craig's list to sell stuff many times with perfect results. I get my money, the guy gets his stuff, and no one gets screwed by ebay and...
View ArticleRe: Sniping is my life
You aren't showing your hand by bidding before the last second. It seems a lot of people on here are complaining about sniping but they don't understand how eBay auctions work. You put in your maximum...
View ArticleRe: I'm one of the
"I thought up the idea of (manual) snipping, simply waiting until the last 30 seconds until I made a bid." I don't get how that is beneficial. Simply give the highest bid you'd be willing to make. As...
View ArticleShills
My complaint with eBAY is people selling an item and having a shill bid up the price. I use Murdock's approach so sometimes the shill outbids me. Then the seller contacts me direct by email saying the...
View ArticleRe: Re: Sniping is my life
*Exactly* right - nice post. And to everyone complaining about losing auctions to snipers, just remember this - the sniper didn't win because he bid last, he won because he had the highest bid. What I...
View ArticleRe: Re: Sniping is my life
You aren't showing your hand by bidding before the last second. At times you are. If you try to bid at the last second but the current bid is already over your maximum, then you will never bid. By not...
View ArticleEbay is the best
If you like to get knock offs for cheap. Especially Jerseys and stuff like that.
View Articleonline auction
I stopped bidding online after I was cheated by a seller on Overstock.com. After winning an iPOD, I sent the bidding amount in USPS Money Order to this seller in Pennsyvania(Who know where he lives...
View ArticleRe: Too many cheaters
Just because you snipe, doesn't make you a "cheater." A late bidder is still a payer. If you want to beat a sniper, enter a higher bid.
View ArticleSellers
I am surprised that something has not been mentioned - the new ebay policy of sellers not being able to leave negative feedback for buyers. This is a big thing to me as a (previously) frequent seller....
View ArticleRe: Re: ebay, love/hate you
Personally, I've never had a problem winning an item when I submit a bid in the last 10 seconds. And i don't use a bot - I sit there watching.
View ArticleRe: Re: Too many cheaters
Spoken like someone who doesn't understand game theory. There's two basic ways to look at an auction. From the seller's perspective, the goal is to extract the highest price possible. From the buyer's...
View ArticleRe: Re: Cure for sniping
Actually several other auction sites uses exactly that model and it works very well. High bid takes the auction, not last bid under the wire.
View ArticleFun? Get your kicks elsewhere
I never went to Ebay looking for fun or a good time. I just wanted to buy things at a good price. That seldom happens anymore. Sure, blame Ebay for some of the things (reserves, etc.) but let's not...
View ArticleRe: Re: Re: Cure for sniping
Actually several other auction sites uses exactly that model and it works very well. High bid takes the auction, not last bid under the wire. That would be great, let the seller set a minimum time for...
View ArticleRe: Re: I'm one of the
Exactly how does spending the time to sit and wait until 30 seconds before the action ends make the process easier to win? If the other guy outbid you in my example, his maximum bid would still outbid...
View ArticleUps and downs.
I see the point everyone is getting at. I like eBay because yes, I can find things that no one else has. I make jewelry, and the prices on eBay outmatch any other. There are not many hardware stores...
View ArticleeBay is out
eBay isn't longer a place for small sellers. I prefer to sell only in my own store and killed my german eBay store last tuesday. ebay fees are growing and growing. Paypal? NO! Some of my last offers is...
View Articleebay - up and down - my fix on it
the price for shipping sucks, yes it does, most items I sell could ship for less than the priority flat rate envelope or 1 lb. rate, however, if you don't ship it priority on the same day they pay for...
View ArticleeBay is out
I agree ebay does make it hard for the little guy to sell, but lets not be discouraged ... they will have their day ... :-)
View ArticleOnline Auctions Not Fun Anymore!
I agree with Mathew Ingram when it comes to ebay having a place and not going away and online auctions being here to stay, as well. But in my falling from the graces of ebay and the new changes...
View ArticleRe: Online Auctions Not Fun Anymore!
I agree that ebay just isn't the fun it use to be. I checked out myejar and I love it. It is easy to use and the cost is wonderful. Myejar is so easy to use, a new comer wouldn't have any problems. Try...
View ArticleForget about ebay..
Frankly I think we must understand in the first place what is our intention to switch on our computer, browse through the internet and go into eBay. Well there are two reasons: Either we want to sell...
View ArticleBeen to bzhub.com.. it's cool
I've link myself to this bzhub.com, looks cool and the method it use is different. Now I've joined as a member and I managed to sell my secondhand book at a reasonable price plus I've also gotten my...
View ArticleEbay
Ebay favors sellers now who use multiple listings or stores instead of the people who just list a few items they just want to get rid of.
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eBidSniper.com is an Ebay Auction Sniper -- it automatically places your bid at the last seconds of the eBay auction
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