Ebay airguns

When you enter a max bid, it only shows up as $1 over the previous high bid until somebody raises it. Most of the good deals are sniped in the last minute or seconds of bidding. If you misspell your search, you may find something that doesn't show up in everyone else's search. That is when you find good deals without a bidding war.

The person probably bid a set amount that's higher then what your offering. For example if the highest bid is $1.00 and no one else has made a bid you can set your bid to whatever amount you want to automatically out bid a lesser amount. So if joe bids $2.00 it would move your bid to the next minimum bid amount until your max bid has been beaten. Makes sense? 

A person can enter a high bid but only the amount that is high enough to win the auction at the time is shown.

Ok, you enter a bid of say five dollars but someone already set their bid at ten dollars, as soon as you bid it will automatically put in their higher bid until they have reached their ten dollar max.

The one thing you don't want as a bidder is to get into a bidding war. What I generally do is to decide how much I'm willing to pay for a item and bid in the last ten seconds of the auction.

There are even apps that you can use for a last second bid so you don't have to monitor the auction in real time but they do charge you per bid.

One thing to be aware of is that depending on your state laws even if you win a auction on a airgun it might not be able to be shipped to you through ebay.

I tried to just buy one and the system wouldn't allow the purchase because ebay classifies them as firearms.

Here's a bidding tip, always add some cents to your bid such as .86 cents because people generally bid in exact dollar amounts. I've won many auctions by doing that.

It's not auto bidding, per se.

Example: When someone bids they enter the max they are willing to pay. Ebay will then accept higher bids in increments of $.50. 

If someone has a bid of say $10 more than your bid, their bid will show at $.50 higher than yours until the price reaches their max bid amount.

In order to win that item you need to bid higher than their maximum bid.

I know I'm not explaining it clearly, but I hope it helps a little.

I guess my main point is that it is probably not "fishy". It's just how Ebay works.

Autobid will automatically keep raising your bid by the minimum amount up to your maximum bid, but if someone else's maximum bid is higher it only takes seconds for their bid to become the new minimum bid. Not fishy at all. It's a true auction. If you don't have the stomach for it, look for listings with a "Buy it Now" price.

You don't even know how eBay works lmao. eBay doesn't have an automatic bidder. Do your research before you actually use the site. What eBay bidding does is let you bid the max you wanna pay. Anyone who tries to bid less than your bid, eBay will automatically raise your bid for you until the bid is higher than your max bid. Say you want a item. It's at $100 with 6 bidder. You choose your max amount you want to bid. Let say u willing to bid $500. If no one bid and time runs out, eBay will automatically bid for you $101 to beat the current bid at $100. Now let's say someone tries to bid again for $150. eBay will bid for you at $151. And then someone bid $200. eBay will bid for you 201. It will keep doing this until time runs out and you win, or until the bid is higher than $500. Since $500 is your maximum bid. So to make it simple. If you want an item, you need to bid the max you willing to pay and stop trying to bid $1 over the current bid. 

Try using "auctionsniper"

Sometimes the sniping software will help you, but it's always about who bids the most.



OP, it's called proxy bidding, and is wwll explained by all these posts.

I got over 1500 winning bids....I do not like to dick around,when I bid I also add shipping to cost.Sometimes I bid at a higher rate to see if someone has a high bid not showing...if I really want something I bid at the last minute and have a set price,bid in mind....

eBay is an auction....I do see a lot of "secret" bidders on custom made knives...it used to upset me,but no more as I see were those sellers would lose too much money otherwise.

Lot of great information above.....if you do not know what you are doing it can cost you more money winning a bid than buying same item at a store..... I have a set price I will pay..... and to Not get caught up in a "bidding war"and do not feel bad when you lose a bid....be happy.

Ebay is my friend, let give you an example 

a Diana pistol it is worth 300.00 but i have a budget of 230.00 and that all i what to spend 

the current bid is 55.00 and i bid 230.00 and walk away and in do so you will push the current bidder to his top bid of lets say 89.00 bucks 

now the bid is 90.00 if the bid raise is a buck 

someone down the road bids 92.00 and push the bid the next bid and so on and in the end someone comes in at the last minute and bids 230.07 and you lose

nothing worse then losing by 7 cent and done it many times to people 

never bid even dollar amounts and a sniper can win or be sniped and never bid 3 times hoping to protect your bid because if a see it i will cost you money

of course Ebay can be crazy here is some crazy



https://www.ebay.com/itm/Feinwerkbau-Model-300S-Tyrolean-177-Cal-Spring-Piston-Air-Target-Rifle-Sights/312971134414

You don't even know how eBay works lmao. eBay doesn't have an automatic bidder. Do your research before you actually use the site.

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You laugh at the poster for not knowing how eBay works, and then immediately make an incorrect statement about automatic bidding. If eBay doesn't have an automatic bidder, then what is this thing they are calling automatic bidding?

https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/bidding/automatic-bidding?id=4014

Maybe you were too busy laughing to do the research.

I haven't purchased off an eBay auction for a while, but when I have I almost always never bid until the last 3 seconds are left. You should already have in mind the MAX you are willing to pay for the item and put it in as your max bid amount. If you're higher than everyone else you'll get it as there won't enough time for others to raise there max - if not then oh well maybe next time, but at least you didn't spend more than you wanted

To learn how ebay bidding works, open ebay and scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Look on the left hand side and click on "How Bidding Works".

Just to clear up a disagreement above, ebay DOES refer to the process of automatically increasing a bid up to a bidder's maximum amount as "Automatic Bidding".

One thing that should be pretty easy to figure out but isn't are the times reported that automatic bids are placed. I'm still wrestling with that one.

One thing I am glad ebay does not appear to have, or at least I haven't seen, is the 15 minute rule. That one really gripes me! A lot of us place our maximum bid then sit on the edge of our seat waiting for an auction to end to see if we win only to have someone pull the old snipe move in the last few seconds, except it isn't really a snipe because they just added 15 minutes to the clock. It changes the bid amount and even if you remain high bidder you still have to wait 15 minutes till the new ending time to see if you win.

The 15 minute rule can benefit the seller because it can encourage bidders to either place their best maximum bid and go to bed or stay up all night increasing bids one dollar and 15 minutes at a time until all but one bidder pukes and gives up. However, it can also turn off bidders who like to play the game, gamble with the clock and enter a big bid in the last seconds.