i have a question for all you ebayers out there.
for the second time in a month, i've been outbid on an item, but the winning bid comes in AFTER the auction ends. and, i'm using the ebay countdown application, so it's in real time and all that. i know of the usual strategies of bidding with, say, 5 seconds left so no one has time to place another bid, but this is something else. i feel that people are using some sort of automated bidding application where a computer places the bid with literally one second left or something. i just don't understand it. anyone experience this or know what the hell's going on? it's pretty frustrating to see the clock count down to zero so you think you've won, only to be told you didn't...
for the second time in a month, i've been outbid on an item, but the winning bid comes in AFTER the auction ends. and, i'm using the ebay countdown application, so it's in real time and all that. i know of the usual strategies of bidding with, say, 5 seconds left so no one has time to place another bid, but this is something else. i feel that people are using some sort of automated bidding application where a computer places the bid with literally one second left or something. i just don't understand it. anyone experience this or know what the hell's going on? it's pretty frustrating to see the clock count down to zero so you think you've won, only to be told you didn't...