The answer is that they're using a sniper service. There are many on the web, most of which you have to pay to use. There is a great free service however, and it's callen Gixen. To use it, simply log in using your Ebay username and password, type in the item number of the goods you want to bid on and your maximum bid, and then sit back and wait for the good news!
Gixen will place your maximum bid within 5 seconds of the end of the auction. Of course, you still might not win, but if your bid is the highest, it is almost impossible for someone to manually place a higher bid. Your chances of winning are therefore greatly increased.
Gixen is a great free service, and is very reliable. For a fee of US$6 per year, you can have the added peace of mind of using Gixen's mirror service, which ensures that your bid is placed in the event that Gixen's main server is down. Other features of the mirror service include:
- 100% reliability guarantee
- No ads
- Wider choice of snipe time choices (3,6,8,10,12 and 15 seconds).
- Auction end times refreshed hourly, as opposed to daily.
- Gixen Desktop Manager - schedule and monitor your snipes from your Windows desktop
For US$6 per year, that's a bargain. Of course, you can use the basic service absolutely free, no catches. Gixen is highly recommended.
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Ebay sniping is often the ONLY way to win at Ebay especially on popular items . Sometimes i am willing to go a bit higher than the average price for that item if it is still cheaper than in the shops
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But another sniper technique ..
ReplyDeleteManually bid (not my maximum) on an item to get a feel where the current bids are in price and to get it into MyeBay screen so that I get notifications when I am outbid, etc… I will usually manually bid in small increments until I am the highest bidder.
Watch the bidding history. Does the previous bidder jump in and outbid me? Are there more than 1 or 2 people bidding on the item.
Set my snipe with the maximum that I will pay based on what I know about the item, research I have done on others that are on the site, activity from the bidders, etc… I always place my MAXIMUM bid into Gixen because you don’t get a second chance.
http://www.projectspossible.com/gixen-free-ebay-snipe-software-review