How to Bid on eBay and Win Every Time at the Last Minute, Sniping at the Last Second 2020
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- How to bid on an auction on eBay. Full tutorial to increase your chances of winning an auction at the last minute (or second!) eBay bidding strategy included. If you are interested, I also teach how to sell on eBay, check out my full course at: www.udemy.com/course/ebay-sel...
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I always win in bidding. Calculate & Set the time. Bid in the last 10-15 second. Set your maximum bid you are willing to pay & place it & add.05 to it. It’s a smart technique to get ahead all the time
You won't have a chance because I'll add .06
@@ViruX93LOL
@@ViruX93 you'll always fall short compared to my .07
She said my .8 was more than enough to win ;)
Lmao amateurs you pale in comparison to my .09
The very last 10sec my hands are shaking
@@cricketer3135 nice! I lost, the other guy bid ONE DOLLAR ABOVE ME!
Lol awesome. Got 30 minutes left right now...My leg wont stop movin. Not lookin forward to the shaking...in about 20 minutes. 😅
@@trueexposure7487 bruh the guy got $5 over me smh Lol
Heart is racing too
@@eastbaymauiboyglad to know I'm not the only one
I don't bid too incredibly often on eBay, but I actually say DON'T "add to watchlist" (for an auction with 0 or low bids) because if there's other people who are also looking to snipe they'll see that they have competition and may raise their bids
Great tip about adding $.05 to your max bid.. I haven't heard anyone else mention that. You earned a new sub.
I did it for about 10 years. Never failed me.
I’ve put in the most random change and somehow I have lost my last 6 bids by EXACTLY 50 cents. And in one bid with 1 second left I was up by 21.78 and still lost by EXACTLY 50 cents. People were going up by a dollar or two at a time and with one second someone guessed that shhh?? I don’t think so. There has to be a way to rig eBay…
I’ve done every trick in the book and still lost by exactly 50 cents. Another time I was the winning bid and even decided to raise my max bid to avoid that problem. With 1 second I raised my bid even though I was winning and I still lost by exactly 50 cents
@@pkmovies92 When do you do that? Immediately after placing your bid or close to the expiration date of the bid?
@@k1llersm0ke32 It's because ebay allows automatic bidding. if your bid isn't higher than the max bid they set, ebay automatically increases the bid by 0.50 and gives it to the person who put in the highest automatic bid
I always bid $1.26 higher than my max. This wins over the peeps that do 5 cents, 25 cents, and $1. If someone wants it more than that, they can have it
21 years ago I was amazing at eBay bidding, hard to believe it was that long ago, but now it's been so long since I did it I have to watch a youtube video about how to do it. lol
Shout out to the OGs of the internet! Respect.
Bro was the legend 27
@@squidward9747 holy shit i haven’t heard that in so long
This will probably get lost in the comment section but was watching some videos before my first ebay auction and saw this. Ended up bidding with the extra 0.05 and it was the difference. Great video and advice!
I felt so bad to the other 11 bidders after I just sniped them for 2 Skylanders discs for Xbox one
EU, I JUST WON MY FIRST AUCTION BECAUSE OF YOU!!!! INCREDIBLE!!! THANK YOU!
Thank you so much, I followed your advice and entered the bid at last 7 mins, I got my dream speakers
7 whole minutes? That’s almost a year in eBay auction time.
You failed to explain that the $75 was a MAX bid and the bidder would only pay that if the bids got that high. A very important part of the bidding process.
i lost a bidding because of this last week, hope i win one tomorrow, thank you sm for this
Yes this is what I still am trying to figure out. If he puts in 75.05 but the listing is at 51 what does the price go to? 52 or some random value. I don't understand
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I just won a bidding for my dream camera body dor wildlife photography.
I bid a bit past the max bid (my max budget) and won.
Keep it up!
When waiting on a bid. I usually wait until the very last minute to make a bid. That way you can see how many other people bid/watch. It also gives you a chance to weigh your chances of winning. I also find the same item that isn’t included in an auction just so I know when an auction isn’t worth trying to win.
These are all the tricks I use and they really work! One way I do it is, whatever the item is at when it gets to 60 seconds, I double that price and bid that amount in the last 3-4 seconds depending how my Internet connection is at the time.
So if an item is at 34$ with one minute to go, then I'll bid 68$ at the last 3 seconds. And since eBay bids up for me, sometimes you win it for way less than your max bid.🎉
Personally I think auction sniping is outdated which is why I just bid the max I'm willing to pay at last minute that way the only way I lose is if someone is willing to pay more than me
I was thinking the same thing. Just understand the current market on what ever item you are looking at.
Ayo same
@@Addictedtocollecting01 Please may I ask, is there a way to see the bid amounts of other people on eBay so that you can increase yours accordingly depending on the winning bid amount?
Not a bad strategy tbh, might deter other bidders from placing a higher bid
@@MrFusion I don't get it.
Best tip for winning - bid High 😂😂😂
Thank you for the GREAT video EU! I really appreciate it!
Thank you very much for the information!
thanks for the tips!
Thanks for the vid!
Hi I won thanks to your advice. My first bid too
I swear some bidding ends early before you can put your money in you just gotta be lucky there isn't a fight over the item and people don't make a fuss over sniping
How about automatic bidding?
Good content. Thank you.
Great video! Thanks, cb
I will see if this works for me since I found a 3Ds that has the starting bid at 10 and ends in 4 days and I forgot hours so hopefully I’m able to get it
Why do bidders bid days out from the expiring date/time? You're just bidding against yourself and running up the price of the item.
Thanks!
YAYYY I WON THE BID
Yo todavía no me animo a entrar a una subasta pero después de ver estos buenos consejos me animo un poco más.
Animo no pasa nada,
Buena suerte, si es que te animas.
Thanks for help
I won one for a model kit on ebay that i really didnt want but it was super cheap and it just popped up at about 20 minutes left so i waited until 2 minutes and kept raising my bid up
Thanks man❤
Honestly I just set up automatic bidding and set a price that I'm willing to pay ( let's say 100$ then I'll put 101.99$ just in case ) It works really well because either way that's the max I'm willing to go and ebay will add 1$ against the other bid each time
How do u sent up automatic bidding? I can’t find it
@@Spicy3ango It's AUTOMATIC. Just set your maximum bid and eBay does the rest.
Im guessing you figured this out by now since it's been 3 months since this comment.
Dude I ran into a bid with 18 minutes left and I'm like bro I need to shit on this guy.
Now I remember why I don't bid on ebay.
How does that automatic counter bid system work ? How do I add the amount that I want automatically used when someone bids over me ?
I bid just like you say with 1sec to go but still there is always someone who has never bid before that out bids me by a pound.??? Do they use a program.????
Watched this and lost ; w ; I'm extremely sad. I was ahead and did the last minute bidding just in case, but someone came and made a bid much greater. I got anxious and tried to bid higher. Right as I was going to click confirm, it ended. I was too slow :'( Thankfully I had a backup item in the cart, but I really wanted to go with my first option. I had long detailed convos with the seller and everything.. this just sucks. I appreciate the vid! Hopefully one day I'll get better at bidding
I’m really sorry to hear that :( That’s the thing about bidding, it either works for you or it doesn’t, and there’s never any guarantee. Sometimes you can feel pressured towards the very end to bid way higher than you’re comfortable with too, just to get that item. I hope you have a better experience in the future with bidding, and I encourage you not to give up. :) You will succeed at least once and it will be worth it. Just make sure you don’t spend over what you’re comfortable with. :)
@@westy_besty3261 So would you say he should bid at the 3-7 second mark in order to be successful?
@@westy_besty3261 or just dig hard on eBay for the item you lost out on for cheaper on an auction that doesn’t have any interest
Does this strategy work on other auction sites that have timer showing?
I love to know that took me the time
How do I make automatic bid?
Gonna use these techniques to buy a graphics card. Wish me luck.
What if there is another sniper?
I'm so confused! First time user on Ebay. Searched for an Acer Aspire AC adapter and charger for my laptop and none of them has an option button to bid on them. What am i doing wrong?
theres this oregon ducks started jacket its at 88 right now and im wondering if i should snipe 120 or 140 just to be in the clear lol theres active bid right now so im thinkin
New to Ebay. What information does the seller get about you after you win before you pay?
Does my maximum bid show up in the list of current bids? Or will EBay automatically tell me that my max bud offer is too low? I don’t want to run the price up too high too early yknow
Is there an automatic timer where you can set/plan your bids in the future????
I do NOT like to wait all the time for the auctions to end......it makes me craaazy.
Hope it works out for me, I'm sure it will the item had no bit yet
If you wait until the last 5 seconds to bid just $2 above the current $10 bid, you'll still lose if someone else's max bid is $20, since eBay automatically raises bids to that limit.
How long do I have to pay an eBay bid after winning
Helpful video. 😄
How much lead time do you recommend? Will it simply bid your maximum bid
or will it just try to out bid the highest bid by an increment over the
winning bid at the snipe time? How do you save money doing this if it
just pops in your max bid? Dont you risk overpaying?
@Duct Tale I did about 8 seconds and won the bid.
Thanks for the video. Does eBay put a hold on the bid amount when I place a bid?
Like hold your money? Nah. You just pay if you win :)
@@muniroloko3584 if i dont win i do not pay?
@@leesoleta4887 exactly that sir
@@muniroloko3584well I whould say the best way to win on eBay is the wait and wait until the auction is almost over when u have 5 or 10 seconds left and if there was a cd I wanted to buy and if the bid was $14 all bid $14.50 then there’s no way anyone can bid then the bid ended and all win
I managed to snipe a 1tb sea gate storage card for a 111$ they usually go for $150 to $200
I'm very glad that despite your title you did actually say outright "You might not win every time." Since you told the truth in the video I'll allow you a bit of exaggeration in what has to be a small summation of the content.
I wonder why I don’t see a confirm button after placing bid.
I know this is an older video but recently I haven’t been able to win anything. Idk if it’s just bot bidders but I literally can’t win anything. Anyone know how to counter this?
Hey quick question: can the seller say no to an offer even if the time has run out. Okay say for example there is a card for sale and the value of that card is say $100 and people have only bidded $25 for that card and I come last second like you taught us here and bid $35. I mean that’s too low for the value of the card, so can the seller say no or does he have to sell it at that price?
Technically yes but no. The seller has the option to put a reserve amount which is the minimum price that must be reached for the item to be sold. In your example a reserve could be $70 which is fair for the 100 cd anything below this means the seller can make a new bidding at the end of the current bid session so if the seller had a reserve of 70 and you bid last second for 35 the seller can start another bidding when the current one ends. If there’s no reserve to be met then you get the cd for 35 :)
Hope this helps. On mobile it tells you ‘reserve not met’ if there’s a reserve or not :)
@@muniroloko3584 thanks for the clarification it helps
@@muniroloko3584 is there a way to see this reserve amount?
@@brandonojeda1686 no unfortunately, only the seller knows
You can create a starting price for the auction/bid, so you’re guaranteed to get a price that’s at least $1 more than that when someone places their bid. :) I don’t know if you’re actually allowed to cancel someone’s bid once the auction ends though, because usually, eBay doesn’t let you cancel your bid or cancel your item that you’re auctioning off if the auction time remaining is 12 hours or less. But you could, of course, contact the winning bidder and discuss why you can’t let it go through if you seriously can’t sell off the item I suppose.
Bro can you answer why 6 out of 6 times I lost a bid at the very last second and it was ALWAYS by .50 cents.
I’ve been up by over $20 on my max bid, put in a super random number and with 1 (one) second left I was up by $21.78 and I lost by EXACTLY 50 cents.
There were times I was already the highest bidder and with exactly 1 second left I even raised my bid and STILL I lost by EXACTLY 50 cents.
There has to be s way to rig it.
Items in I think 50 and under you have to at least be over by 50¢ so they just entered a higher “mad bid” I’m looking at a card right now around 1800$ and you have to at least bud 50$ over their bid…. If I placed a bid at the last second of even a max bid of say $1950.78 in my case and someone else placed a max bid of $2100 it would be exactly 50$ over what I bid…. …2050.78 so I guess in your cause say the item was at $18 and you bid 21.78 and I bid 30$ max bid eBay would automatically lock me in at ¢.50 higher then you….
Probably a robot I heard people set up that
If you bid 20.00 over the last bid will the bid go up 20.dollars or is it go up increments up to a max of 20 dollars?
It will go up in smaller increments, around $0.50 to $1.00 depending on what the seller sets.
So I placed a bid on a video card and actually won the bid by applying the techniques mentioned in this video, thank you for that.
There is only one thing I just can't seem to figure out, I got the product for less money than the bet I placed. what is going on?
When I entered the bidding, the last bid was $800, 12 second for closing.
My bid was $937.76 which I submitted 3 seconds for closing.
I got a quick message that confirmed I'm the highest bidder now.
And after the bidding ended, I got the message after a few minutes that I won the bid and have to pay $805.
This is less than my bid, I'm not complaining, but like to understand what happend?
Means the person that had the highest bid before you was willing to pay 804, not just the 800 you saw listed. So ebay autobid 1 dollar more for you (it won't just bid the highest amount you're willing to pay, it goes in increments of 1$ until you're highest bidder or outbid). Gratz on your buy :)
12 seconds is too much. why not do 3? the less time time you give someone to beat it, the better
I have this SH FIGUARTS I WANT currently they r at £8 and one on £3 i will bid 5 minutes before it ends
I NEED to get this laptop that goes for 800 bucks for retail and it’s 150 right now. I hope no one’s doing this.
Best way to win the bid is to bid 1 million dollars because when you win the item the bidding system will automatically drop your bid down to one dollar above the last highest bidder when bidding closes.
If an item has no bidders, would it make sense to just enter the price of the item, like you did for the first example?
But you have no idea whether bidders will jump in at the last few seconds. That's what savvy bidders do.
Ive won twice so far making my ebay K/D a 2.0. Waiting for the last 10 seconds makes my adrenaline pump.
if someone has a high bid setup does it still let you win?
Whats best automatic bidding or sniping? How do you activate automatic bidding? Can I bid on the eBay app? Many thanks!
In fact, when you enter your maximum amount, this is not the amount that you actually bided. EBay will automatically increase your bid until reaching that amount. For example, say you entered 75$ and the current bid is 55$, eBay will automatically bid 56$ for you. If someone bids 57$, eBay will automatically increase your bid to 58$ to outbid that person's bid until reaching your 75$ maximum. If someone outbids your 75$, then you can either increase your maximum bid or just stop bidding and looking for somewhere else for a better deal.
So when you enter your amount, eBay does automatically bid for you. Also, you can bid on the eBay app. Finally, always always always remember to enter the maximum amount that you think will make you happy if you actually paid for that amount in the end. Ususally, if you win you will pay lower than the maximum amount you entered, which increases your happiness. If you lose in some cases, it means the final amount exceeds the maximum amount that will make you happy, so simply forget about it and look for somewhere else.
@@mountainsunset816 The reason I watched the video but this wasn't mentioned in the video. Thanks for the info.
@@uygarguzeloglu6229 No problem! Hope you get a good deal!
PLEASE ANSWER! Do sellers need to accept the final/highest bid on a auction? Like if the seller doesn't think the final bid is high enough van they refuse it? Is there some kind of punishment if they don't?
hi ive seen threads that say sellers are obligated to accept the highest bid after the auction ends, or theyll receive a thing called a “defect.”
Read the policy on the site.. like ebay for example... I can't belive all the people asking stupid question that are easily answered on their web sites... but to answer you question.. yes that can.. and yes it looks bad on them. Unless there is a good reason or cause for canceling the auction.
You’re better just listing it regularly, that way you can get what you think it’s actually worth, instead of doing a bid.
You can actually put a minimum price. I'm actually bidding on a microphone and the minimum price was 400 $USD
@@murdechoc yeah but you're likely not gonna win
Gonna try this for 150 dollars worth of items with a current bid of 8 dollars, wish me luck!
you get it?
@@rcb20091 yeah
I have a question if you can help. I'm trying to figure out how I tried to bid on an item and did not win when I should have 🤔 The highest bid was at 64$ I made a max bid at 85$ at 10 seconds left and looked like it was going through but when time ran out it said sold to other bidder and was at 71$ sold . I should of won at 85$ max bid ? not sure if the loading time on my end was too late or if by me bidding 3 times before max bid defaulted me ?
Same happend to me to. Maybe it was the load time
Hi I have a question if an item has a current price of 56 euro and I bid for example 83 euro in the last seconds so I can secure the price and if there are other bidders too , they probably won’t have time to outbid me right ? but if I win will I have to pay 83 euro or if they don’t outbid me I’ll pay less depending on how much other bidders had time to bid?
To answer your question, No.
If they don't outbid you you'll pay less, but bids are usually incremental in slots of x amount, which you can see at the bidding site for the item, usually 5 or 10 euro etc I think on some items atleast, so it might mean you pay 60 euro instead of 56.
So if I bid 100$ and the person before me bids lower, do I pay the amount the 2nd person bidded
Dog I bid with one second left and sometimes still get sniped
But 99.8% of the time it's mine 🎯
I lost in the last one second. I really think people are using programs to do the bidding because it was exactly 1 cent over my bid? Kinda weird to me.
HOW DO I INCREMENTALLY BID? with multiple bids ? say i want something for say $75 but obviously would only want to pay a bit more than the second highest bidder - thanks
If the 2nd highest bidder was, say, 55, you'd only pay 55.01 or 56, can't remember, you don't pay 75. That's the max you'd go to
I have a question so when you bid does it take the money out of your account or you put the amount you would bid for and you pay after the auction is over?
You pay when the auction is over. You will receive an email from Ebay saying: You won, pay now.
@@seoul_mate is this also when you put up the adress? because in my case its telling me 2 different shipping prices, one being $60 higher than the other because its on a whole different contintent.
Ebay have extended the time on two recent auctions l've won by 5 mins.
In both cases my bid went in within the last few seconds.
The 2nd was today about 9.30am....the 1st was about a week ago and l thought it a problem with the signal.
Serious bargain hunters will not be happy with this..!
1 YEAR LATE SQUAD WHERE YOU AT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Bidding on something tonight
Losing by 5 cents leaves one sore
I have a important quiston say If the price is 171.00 and I offer 200 and the the price is 171 right do I have to pay the full amount I offered?
no
@@Beantbeantbeant do you know what mean?
@Bruh Forum 4 months ago donut
I have about 1 hour till the auction ends with 6 bidders. Wish me luck
@Desean Rhodes no,sadly.
@@damionking7257 thats because someone out there was willing to pay more for the item than you were. If I really want something my bid will reflect that and I always wait until about 5 seconds to put my bid in. They never see me coming, I strike hard and fast. I don't give them enough time to marinate on my bid and decide if they want to go that high.... I have never lost a bid.
@@ericdraven7185 well i didnt know that this time
if i place my bid do i need to pay my bid right away?
nope
If someone else is winning the bid and I go higher in the last 10 seconds , is there a chance that they have a maximum bid higher than the one displayed or do they have to be waiting with a higher bid to trump you ?
All you have to do is bid $1,000,000 in the last 10 seconds because the Ebay automatic bidding system will automatically downward adjust your bid to just 1 dollar above the last highest bidder at closing. You will win. It works for me every time.
I just bid on something 2 minutes and chose the highest amount in the options. Then as the clock winds down I'm raising my bid. I ended up paying 15 and the highest bid was 10. The funniest part is I had no intention on buying it. It was ugly but I could tell these other jokers really wanted it.
@@oldskolacura9798 They are jokers, yet you bought something that you didn’t even want to buy? Right then, makes a whole lot of sense 🤣 👏🏻
Honestly people are getting smart! They have dummy accounts! You'll never get the highest bid only from the dealer himself! Trust me!
Sniping only beats snipers and only on very common items. I’m bidding on something right now and my leading bid is 351.00 there is a day left in the auction. I expect this auction to go into the final minute at 351.00 This is a rare item that I really want and I expect that there are 1/2 dozen other serious and motivated bidders. Assuming you wanted this item, what would your sniper bid be?...............,,,,,,,,,,, i will make sure my max bid is 101.00 over the current bid. Most snipers are not going to bid 100.00 over the current bid In the last seconds. If your looking at a common item you can can continue to snipe until you win. If your looking at an item that only comes to auction a couple of times a year, sniping is not the way to go.
I found a camera that usualy goes for 8k but on ebay goes for 1,3 k with 3 days to go. Strange if you ask me
You buy it?
Stuff falls through the cracks all the time. be it due to item specifics or title, there are loads.
Hit or miss. I stick to sneakers which can be authenticated or high rated sellers
I saw another video where the highest current bid was $50, and the guy bid $83 at the last second. He won the item, but only paid $53. I thought you pay what you bid? Can you explain this to me? Thank you Edit: ok I found a video that explains it....
You can bid 1 million dollars on an item and you will automatically win the auction. Ebay will automatically lower your bid amount to just 1 dollar above the highest bidder next to you. when the bidding closes you win the item by paying only a dollar more than the highest bidder.
6:44p.m. 12/11/2021
Bid sniping doesn’t help you win, though. It risks losing so that you can MAYBE get it at a discount. Assuming the other party hasn’t put in a maximum bid.
You always want to put a maximum bid the first time. Most will try to gain it for the cheapest possible.
1st time bidding a week ago and I got outbid in the last 10 seconds... I feel so betrayed 🙃😭
7 seconds is the magic number hehe
@@bruisedviolets update: I've wkn like 6 eBay bids because of this so thank you!! 🤗💖
@@ranzudezuLRTC yay!’ happy for you :)
@@bruisedviolets thanks a lot 🤗
There was a necklace I really wanted and was the only bidder for the week. I assumed someone may be hiding to bid last moment, so I refreshed 5 seconds before the auction ended. There was no one. Then I refreshed again and at 3 seconds someone outbid me. That whole "snipping" is basically a scam. I understand the point of auctions but fair ones. I'm now going to snip last moment on my next items, awful tactics.
Then you should put at least $20 extra to not get sniped.
why not just use sniping software?
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Use an auction sniper service so that you dont have to waste your time to snipe.
Auction sniper services are no longer free anymore , they get a commission now unfortunately especially with iPhones
Waste of time. Just put in the max amount that you are willing to pay for the item a few seconds before it ends.. if you arent able to do that then put the max you are willing to a pay in as close as you can to the end... what it boils down to is are you will to pay more for the item than everyone else.. if not then you will likely lose if you are you are likely to win. A snipe program will not change the results if bid less than I do.
Here we have a lot of SLOW blabbering without valuable content. Most of this is old news.
The video title says “every time” but you even admit in the video that this won’t work every time. Quit it with the lies.
bro I think if you play some low music in the back ground your videos will be a lot more interesting. Just a tip
Lol, thank you for the tip! I will see if I can find some good background music for future eBay walkthroughs!
Thank you for this comment! These are the kind of comments i like to see, ones that actually help the creator to make better content, not just make a vague insult. Thank you for helping this creator and your comment has made a bigger difference than you might have realized. Keep up the good work!
@@earningsuniversity3355 I think you have an awesome channel and you deserve more subscribers. I only have 2 less subscribers than you and I make terrible videos that aren't anywhere near the quality of yours, and here you are with way better videos than mine, ive seen channels with over 100k subs with lower quality videos, keep up the good work!
Why don't you just play some musci in the background, that way everyone else doesn't have to be annoyed just to please you.
SO YOU SNIPE......LOLOL