Quote Originally Posted by cherinyc View Post
My bidding war is not looking good. Overnight some random person started bidding weird #'s. Who places a bid of $509.11?
Hi,
despite the ebay suggestions of placing early bids to win the auctions - really the best way to win an item is to bid last, just a few seconds before the auction end. That is what I do, usually at 5 secs to go - barely enough time to click the button for the bid and for the confirmation! Sometimes, if my wireless lost connection for a second or anything - I lose the bid. Most of the time it works. Also, it gives you the opportunity to see if the predicted winning price fits your budget: if something that you are willing to pay 200 goes over 300 two hours before auction end - then you don;t need to waste your time checking your bids, since it's already out of range.
An bidding weird #s is also something you do to win, unless you are willing to pay a lot more than the current bidding price. For example the usual assumption is that people bid in 'round' numbers. So they would bid 100 but not 103, or 101, 107, 109... or 150, or 155, and so on. If you see a current bid of 100 or 105, you can decide to outbid for good with a 200 if you want to spend that kind of money - but if the item is not worth it then yo can go with the 'weird #s' and try 107, or 109.50 or 109.99 or something like that. Often time it works and saves you $$ compared to trying big outbids by posting round amounts
Anyway, best of luck - and yes post pictures when you get it!