Bid extensions

[doc-holmes]

I saw over on the US boards eBay is trying out bid extensions in the trading card category if any bid are placed on the last 2 mins, I think. Does anyone know if there is just the one extension and if they'll be testing this out in Canada as well?

[reallynicestamps]

I hope not.

Sniping would disappear and those buyers are unwilling to wait around to make nibble bids.

Even fewer bidders and those the kind who are "armed bargain hunters" who don't want to pay.

[Anonymous]

I hope Mr. eBay and Mr. POTUS never get together - the world will be in way more trouble than it's in right now with all their crazy money grabbing schemes ...

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@doc-holmes wrote:
I saw over on the US boards eBay is trying out bid extensions in the trading card category if any bid are placed on the last 2 mins, I think. Does anyone know if there is just the one extension and if they'll be testing this out in Canada as well?

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@doc-holmes 

It's all become a game of create a new feature or tinker with an older one and then wait for users to find a workaround to abuse what they have determined to be a loophole in the eBay armour. 

My personal preference would be stop removing anything that has worked great forever and just fix anything that has been mentioned at nauseum for being broken (badly designed).  No longer sure either of those 2 things are possible. 

[Anonymous]

Abso-'Effen-Lute-Ly.

You stated it perfectly and the cartoon is so true.

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@doc-holmes  while eBay hasn't said specifically if/when/where the test will be applied to "select items in the Trading Cards category", the bidding help page for all of the various sites (US, UK, Australia, etc.) all currently show that banner announcement - including Canada.

https://www.ebay.ca/help/buying/bidding/bidding?id=4003 

Unfortunately, that banner notice is really the only info we have about it at this point, so not sure about whether it is just the one extension.

[reallynicestamps]

There are three versions of "snipe" bidding and the naive souls who nibble bid get them confused.

The true snipe bidder is hanging over their keyboard at 3 am with duplicate screens. This is what most of the losers are complaining about.

Then there are electronic snipers, who bid with a service like esnipe.com days ago. The service is set to place the bid nano-seconds before the end of the auction, faster than a human can.

And of course, there are ordinary eBay bidders who place their maximum bid days or hours or even minutes before the end of the auction, and let eBay compare their maximum to the current high bid.

The latter two know what they want and are willing to pay for it. They set a maximum bid and stand by it..

[Anonymous]

That's what I did. I put in a bid at the beginning of the auction for something from a US seller.  My bid was about 1/2 of what the item had previously sold for, so I 'sorta forgot about it. Even with the huge cost to ship it to me (seller used the eBay thing for International shipping), if I won the overall price would be in the range of what I was willing to pay.

I won the item! It was shipped on July 3 and it's somewhere around one of eBay's hubs.

Lesson learned ...

[marwo507547]

Personally, I think this is good and should have always been part of the auction process. 

Live auctions gives everyone a count down before they close the bid so it is reasonable and good that ebay is putting this in.   It will stop snipe bidding at the last second making it so you don't have to constantly watch the last second and to outbid whatever last second buyers want the item.  

[marnotom!]

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@marwo507547 wrote:

Live auctions give everyone a count down before they close the bid so it is reasonable and good that ebay is putting this in.   It will stop snipe bidding at the last second making it so you don't have to constantly watch the last second and to outbid whatever last second buyers want the item.  

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Snipers don’t win auctions if earlier bidders have put in a higher proxy bid than the sniper’s bid.

I’ve beaten snipers by simply bidding the maximum I’m willing to pay for an item and that bid was placed a couple of days before the auction ended. That bid amount didn’t show up immediately so the sniper had no idea what my actual bid was.

eBay auctions are won by the highest bid, not necessarily the last bid.

[Anonymous]

Can't 'they' adjust their sniping software to accomodate any time changes that eBay makes to closing times?