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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 5527486, member: 114169&quot;]Here&#039;s why I started this thread. </p><p><br /></p><p>I recently won two auctions on Ebay by doing the snipe.&nbsp; I put in early &quot;feeler&quot; bids on the items just to keep them more visible in my Ebay feed and to see what other interest is out there. Close to the end of the auction,&nbsp; I see one or two bidders making small incremental bids until my feeler bid gets outbid.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know from their pattern, they are not &quot;all in&quot; and are only a few dollars above me at that point. </p><p><br /></p><p>Right at auctions end, with seconds left,&nbsp; I drop my real maximum.&nbsp;&nbsp; This ended up winning at a couple bid increments above my feeler bid and way below my maximum. </p><p><br /></p><p>I get the sense that if I had started with my maximum,&nbsp; the other bidder would have continued nickel and dime bidding until my max was hit.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen this pattern in the past and it has cost me. </p><p><br /></p><p>By letting the other guy believe he is getting a great deal up until seconds before auctions end, I can recoup the lead for one or two bid increments. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes when the starting bid is too close to my maximum,&nbsp; I will put my feeler bid at cents above starting bid.&nbsp;&nbsp; That allows the alternate bidder to feel comfortable to the end.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll drop my maximum bid as kind of a &quot;spite&quot; bid to get whomever outbid my feeler bid to pay a bit more.&nbsp; Sometimes this approach gets the item for one bid increment but still quite a bit lower than my maximum. </p><p><br /></p><p>Both approaches remove the psychology of open bidding and turn Ebay into more of a &quot;sealed bid&quot; or &quot;secret bid&quot; platform. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just relating what has been sucessful for me.&nbsp; This obviously does not work if there are three or more other bidders on a particular item.&nbsp;&nbsp; But if I am going head to head with one or possibly two other bidders,&nbsp; it works for me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Z[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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