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Bidding on multiple items on ebay

  • 07-07-2010 9:18pm
    #1
    dellWlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭


    I seem to remember the existence of something on ebay where by if there were a number of the same item for sale you could group them together and put in a max bid, if you failed to win when the first auction ended it would try on the second auction and so on ...

    never used it but thought it would be handy.

    now i want to use it i can't seem to find how to do it.

    any one else remember this???


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  • #2
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,375 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    There is no such functionality on ebay, never has been either as far as I can recall. What you're talking about is third party sites that some times offer such functionality.


  • #3
    toe_knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭toe_knee


    Yep like Nody said. Some of the sniping tools offer this. Very handy indeed


  • #4
    dellWlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭dellWlan


    Thanks. Only had a vague recollection of it so maybe a third party thng I saw. Turns out I won the next auction I bid on so no need in the end.
    Thanks.


  • #5
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I use www.snip.pl
    IMO you should be sniping on real auctions anyway, but this also has lots of commands and settings for mulitple auctions, and not just cancelling bids, if you win the first auction you might want to lower the bids on the others and get one more of the item if it is going cheap.

    It has excellent features, it is hard to explain the usefullness without examples or using it. In the past I used to buy memory cards and resell them in the buyandsell, it works very well on popular items like this and if you use the advanced search you can see completed listings to see how much items are going for. Sniping helped be to be in the lowest % of payments


  • #6
    mid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭mid


    Nody wrote: »
    There is no such functionality on ebay, never has been either as far as I can recall. What you're talking about is third party sites that some times offer such functionality.

    In the past there was a 'bid assistant' tool on ebay Ireland and ebay UK but it was removed in sept 08, it was similar to what the OP described.


    http://www.ukauctionline.co.uk/archives/2008/09/ebay_bid_assistant_to_be_removed.php

    http://pages.ebay.com.my/bidassistant/


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  • #7
    dellWlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭dellWlan


    That's the one. Satisfied my curiosity anyway even of it's now gone.


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