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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1746103, member: 15929"]It sounds like you are being outbid on most of your "want" items which ONLY means that someone bid more then you. How much more is an unknown and you'll never really know as all it takes is one autobid over your max in order to win the listing. Folks can engage and use all the bidding assistance programs they want but until they place the "right" bid, they simply are not going to win anything. eBay is an autobid system which automatically enters buyers bids up to their designated max. These bids CAN be seen, but only after the fact. The real trick is in knowing or at least having a general idea on exactly what the max bid is going to be and then entering that value plus one bid increment just before the listing closes thereby not allowing someone to "counter" your winning bid. The advice on figuring out what you are willing to pay only goes so far in actually "winning" something. You absolutely MUST have an idea on relative value for what you are bidding on and what other folks are actually paying. This only comes with experience and even then, someone will come along with just a little bit more experience and run off with the item! Personally, I would not be too concerned with not winning since the obvious is to place a max bid of $100,000 on everything you want. You'll win EVERY listing but you'll have also way overpaid for what you bought. Be patient. Pay attention and learn how it works. Sniping programs won't do a darn thing for you if you do not enter a high enough max bid. Nothing. Look at ebay as if it were a Basketball game. Most teams save the energy for the last few minutes of the game since all it takes to win, is one single basket (bid increment).[/QUOTE]

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