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You see an item on Ebay you're interested in. There's two days left and the starting bid is $20. Only one other person is interested in this item, and they put in the first bid for $22, no one else is interested or going to bid. The item is worth $50 to you, so you put in a $50 bid. The other bidder puts his old woman hat on, and starts bidding, $22, $24, $26 and so on until they beat your $50 bid. If you bid again for $60, they either start bidding again until they beat you, or you end up paying $50 or more. If you had sniped, waited until the last few seconds to bid, you would have beaten their opening $22 bid and gotten the item for $23 because they wouldn't have time to bid again. Now, if someone else was also sniping on that, you might have lost, or paid more, but that's the breaks. If you want to see the price on an item go up, bid early and often.
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Originally Posted by Run With The Fox
How does "bidding late" work to keep the price down? RWTF

It doesn't. But bidding early and often gives the competition lots of time to think things over, and time to decide to bid higher and higher. I feel it is stupid to bid early if you are interested in winning something at auction for the lowest possible price. You might as well play poker with your cards turned facing the other players.

The people who bid early in auctions are often those same fools who are resigned to the notion that it is perfectly normal to lose money when buying guns.


A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.

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If you do not like end of auction games,
Search for Buy It Now listings

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=k12+weaver&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1


Alternately, you can use the Best Offer option

Send this seller an offer and see if he accepts

https://www.ebay.com/itm/334386879092?hash=item4ddb02da74:g:jiYAAOSwTZFiRkyt

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