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If someone bidded a huge amount of money for something to hope that no one would bid and they woukd win it for hardly anything but then someone bidded $1 more would the person who bidded second have to pay until someone beats them. Simplified: If somone bids heaps of money and no one bids would that person get the item for it's last bid or would they have to pay the huge amount they bidded as their top bid. Also would the second person who bid have to pay the huge amount if they won the auction. Sorry if this doesn't make any sense but I keep getting beaten by snipers in the last few seconds and losing and now I need some tactics. Ps No, I didn't do this I just need tactics to beat snipers. If you don't know what a sniper is look up "ebay last few minutes / seconds on yahoo answers" I have some bids going now so I would be happy if you rtied to help :)

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Yes the second person would have to pay. Just an example : M and J are bidding on something with 1$ on the beginning. M bids 10$ The auction is now at 1.5$ J bids 8 The auction will be at 8.5$ and M will be the winner until someone bids over 10$ If someone comes and bids 150$, he wins and have to pay 10.5 or 11... To beat snipers, I wait at the very last moment to see how things are going at the end, and then bid the very highest price I'm ready to pay. I rarely (or never) miss. MJ
honey you need to bid higher so that nobody can or will out bid you on the thing or item you want I know I'm a seller & a buyer on Ebay
The person that wins the bid must pay the mount of their last closing bid. so if someone bids $10 for something and at the last second someone bids $11 then the second person must pay $11 for that item even if they put $15 as their top bid because it only took the one dollar to outbid the first person. The first person doesn't pay anything. There really isn't anything you can do against snipers, cause you never know when they are going to bid, but try not bidding untilt the last few minutes too, this will prevent other people from starting a biding war and you might be able to take the item before the other people can revise their top bid amount.
Ok - thinking how to put this simply.... If I'm selling an mp3 player with no reserve but 99p start and someone bids £50 then Ebay will take the bid at 99p and if no one else bids then the person gets it for 99p but if someone else were to bid £1.50 then Ebay would autobid on behalf of the first person and so on until the £50 had been reached.. However if someone manages to bid £51 then Ebay would take that as being the higher bid and that person would be expected to pay £51 for the item. If you are getting beaten constantly the best thing to do is find the item you want that has no bids and then bid your absolute maximun amount then leave it to autobid for you. Try bidding a strange amount - like £21.56 or something - most people bid in round numbers.
This frrequently used to happen to me, I'd be watching something an nobody was bidding on the items, the I'd bid something within the last few hours and all of a sudden there was a flurry of bidders on the items. I just went to a sniper site and started using them, no I don't lose, and I don't overpay.
Hi. If you bid on an item and someone else comes along and "outbids" you at the last minute, your best bet is to try and re-bid higher than the previous "sniper" bidder before the auction ends, or place a high enough bid on the item so that if a "sniper" bidder comes in at the last moment they won't stand a chance. I hardly ever lose bids because I keep refreshing my screen all the way up until like 10 - 20 seconds because this is usually when the "snipers" as you call them, come in and outbid you. It all depends on how badly you want the win the auction. You must stay on top of the bidding. Also, as a precaution, what I do is bid up the absolute highest amount that I am willing to pay, say if I know the item is worth more than $300, I might just bid $350 or $400 if it's really an item that I want [so badly]. This way I won't get outbid. Snipering, as you call it, is perfectly allowed and you just have to stay right on top of your auction item refreshing the screen over and over again. Common Sense really...
Hi, 1st. You would only be responsible for the amount needed to win the auction. 2nd. I've found only two ways to fight snipers: A. Bid as much as you're willing to spend and hope it is more than they are willing to spend. As I said IF you don't need that much to win you won't have to pay you're max bid. B. Put a entry level bid to start, then go back 1 min. before auction end then enter your max bid so snipers don't have time to keep uping your bid til they sneak over you. I hope this helps.