![]() The price is typically set by the second highest bidder's amount. In the case of a tie, the earlier placed bid wins. That is how fixed end time auctions work. Reactive bidding is a poor strategy choice in an online auction.Īnd no I'm not going to just bid all the money that I'm willing to spend, that not a auction. If you were willing to bid more, you should have done so in the seven days before the auction ended rather than waiting and trying to react to other bids as they come in at the end of the auction. As long as eBay receives a qualifying bid that is time stamped before the auctions ends, that is considered a valid bid.ĮBay has always explicitly permitted sniping: In a seven day auction, there are seven days between when the auction goes live until bidding ends. On almost everyone of the auctions i would have increased my bid had there been enough time.Įvery user has the same amount of time to place a maximum bid. because I've gotten smarter about evaluating sellers and comparison shopping. My experience is that buying on eBay has gotten easier for me each year. ![]() Why are you still using eBay if you feel it has been getting worse each year? That doesn't make any sense to me. not having a clue when an auction will actually end. Hardly anyone is willing to sit by a computer for an indefinite period of time. and have been outnumbered by the number of members who are satisfied with auctions ending when they saythey will end. Manyanti-snipers have posted about extending the end of the auction. and now I snipe manually if there's an auction I really want to win. I did extensive research and learned about sniping. I was devastaged the first time I lost an auction to a sniper many years ago. like you seem to assume by talking about an 'actual auction'. There is more than one kind of auction format. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Hi I'm afraid it is too much to expect eBay to change the format for its auctions that it has had since it started. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. ![]() This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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