Help me understand.

Every buyer on Ebay is gonna over pay at some point in time. It's a guarantee. I try to restrain myself and only bid in the last 15 minutes. And then only the amount I've agreed upon with myself... Sometimes it even works.
 
You guys really need to set up with one of those proxy bid sites. I have never lost an auction. It automatically logs you in and bids for you up to the max amount you entered. And does it all within the last 8 seconds of the auction.
 
I've had my butt burnt on ebay a couple of times, but it was my own fault for not knowing the market for what I was bidding on. Now I always price whatever I'm looking at elsewhere so I know what the retail is. Over the years I've learned to be quite the sniper on ebay, but like woodnbow I always know what MY max bid is going to be beforehand.
 
Slayer, I'm a pretty fair sniper when I want to be... problem is you have to have the highest total bid and too often Ebay buyers get emotionally attached to the auction. :) I've done it on Ebay and Gunbroker, I've done it real time at real auctions too. :o
 
Every buyer on Ebay is gonna over pay at some point in time. It's a guarantee. I try to restrain myself and only bid in the last 15 minutes. And then only the amount I've agreed upon with myself... Sometimes it even works.
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If I'm home when an auction ends I wait til the last three seconds and proxy bid every penny I'm willing to spend. And yeah I still lose one every now and then.
 
If I'm home when an auction ends I wait til the last three seconds and proxy bid every penny I'm willing to spend. And yeah I still lose one every now and then.
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That's the way to do it (or simply use a sniping service to do the same thing for you if you're not near a computer). That way, you don't have time to get into a bidding war, and if you lose the auction, you can comfort yourself with the fact that it's only because the other guy was willing to pay more.
 
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