Ebay Sniping Tools5917

Originally Posted by Logan510
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Originally Posted by poka
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Originally Posted by drchaos
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Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
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Originally Posted by Savage_Spawn
Wonder what happens when it's sniping tool vs another sniping tool? Or if two bidders are using the exact same sniping tool?

Whomever bids the highest wins the book, period.

Sniping software is used to avoid ongoing bidding wars and draw attention away from auctions, as much as possible.

It's not rocket science.

Exactly.

If I am willing to bid $200 for a comic and place my bid in the beginning someone else can nibble and push the bid up a few dollars at a time until they can take the bid up to $205 or $210 leaving me to lose the book or go higher than I intended.

With sniping they see a lower bid and think that they can get the book for less than $200 so maybe they don't bid any higher than $100 when they see that they are the high bidder. When my bid comes in with seconds to go I get the book for less than $200 even if they increase their bid by $50 hoping to beat me.

Or you could just bid 200 in the last 5 seconds- doesn’t really matter whether others are using sniping tool or not.

What if your internet connection gets sluggish or goes out completely or you can’t be on eBay at the time the auction ends? That’s another reason to use a sniping tool,

Originally Posted by 50AE_DE
Nothing wrong asking why he placed a high bid like that but what CAK did was way different. I won't speak for KM, but I thought it was wrong to imply KM was a shill and then come back and question his bidding tactics and bid price.

Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
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Originally Posted by 50AE_DE
Nothing wrong asking why he placed a high bid like that but what CAK did was way different. I won't speak for KM, but I thought it was wrong to imply KM was a shill and then come back and question his bidding tactics and bid price.

No, that is not what happened.

I did/said nothing wrong.

Please do not attempt to put words in my mouth.

I commented the $399.99 bid for the SS #6 was shilltastic.

I made no mention of KaptainMyke participating in any shill bidding on that auction.

KaptainMyke than posted saying that the $399.99 bid was his and it was a spiked bid.

And so on, scroll back.

I did NOT "imply" KapatinMyke was shilling that auction, or the other #12 (Junkie cover) that KM also bid on at $199.99.

KM said "spiked bidding works on ebay".

My contention was that it does not work but to each his own.

I basically said that spiked bidding was in my opinion not the best way to buy books in auction.

Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
I think the $399.99 bid was likely a shill.

The $260 (or something) could have been legit.

IOW, I would not be surprised to see a raw 1.5 sell for around $250 in auction.

But a bid of $399.99 is shilltastic.

Btw, KM and his spike bidding idea still makes no sense to me, at all.

Originally Posted by drchaos
There are already two other threads about possible shilling, can we get this one back on topic?

Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
Apparently he thinks a new tales from the crypt TV or movie reboot is going to sky rocket prices on key EC books.

Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
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Originally Posted by kaptainmyke
My manual way of doing it almost never fails. Except for that guy who spike bids above my spike bid and ends up paying a ridiculous amount for an auction item worth possibly a fraction of it's sell price. I've seen this happen twice to me in the past 2 weeks on the EC horror books lol That #2 TFTC went for $1200 when it was a $200 comic all day long with its conditional issues.

Did you pay for the 2 books in the past 2 weeks where this manual spike bid in the last 5 seconds failed you?

The "#2 TFTC that was worth $200" and whatever other book?

KM, you first stated it was you on post # 42 or #47, here:

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Originally Posted by kaptainmyke
I was the $399.99 spike bid. And yes, it makes sense if you use ebay.

I didn't miss that.

Far as TFTC and EC keys going up every year....well, look them up in GPA.

They aren't going up all that much.


But, hey....it's your money.

You do you, boo.


@Flipper

[b]Now, this thread is performance art. [/b]

Originally Posted by Logan510
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Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
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Originally Posted by kaptainmyke
My manual way of doing it almost never fails. Except for that guy who spike bids above my spike bid and ends up paying a ridiculous amount for an auction item worth possibly a fraction of it's sell price. I've seen this happen twice to me in the past 2 weeks on the EC horror books lol That #2 TFTC went for $1200 when it was a $200 comic all day long with its conditional issues.

Did you pay for the 2 books in the past 2 weeks where this manual spike bid in the last 5 seconds failed you?

The "#2 TFTC that was worth $200" and whatever other book?

KM, you first stated it was you on post # 42 or #47, here:

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Originally Posted by kaptainmyke
I was the $399.99 spike bid. And yes, it makes sense if you use ebay.

I didn't miss that.

Far as TFTC and EC keys going up every year....well, look them up in GPA.

They aren't going up all that much.


But, hey....it's your money.

You do you, boo.


@Flipper

[b]Now, this thread is performance art. [/b]

Is that meant for me? If so, you've again not been paying attention as my ID is Logan510 so @Flipper wouldn't notify me.

If it was meant for someone else, my apologies.