The Secret of Getting What You Want on eBay

How many times have you sat at your computer, your eyes glued to an eBay listing and counting down the seconds until it ends? Just when you thought you were going to finish as the highest bidder, you find that someone had piped you at the post. Just 3 seconds before it closed, they had waltzed in and out bid you by just a couple of bucks.

Sound familiar? Well it needn't because there's a secret ninja trick that can turn you from an amateurish bidder to an eBay demon. Not many people know this, but those people that are bidding within seconds of the end aren't even sitting at there computer. They are real people alright, but they have set up an automatic bidding tool that bids for them just at the right moment.

Anyone can do this at the AuctionSniper.com website - you only pay if you actually win the item and you even get your first four goes free of charge. The way it works you have to give it your eBay username and password, and then a robot will place a bid for you automatically. Once you have found a product you want on eBay you need to copy the item number found on the left column of the item details. All you have to do is paste the number into auction sniper, set your maximum bid and set the lead time (this times the action a number of seconds before the end).

This strategy works particularly well on duplicate items because you can get them at rock bottom prices. For example I bought my girlfriend a bicycle for just £45 when the average price on eBay was around £60. The bike was just one of a whole bunch that were selling at the rate of three a day. I kept setting a low maximum bid and 10 times I was outbid, but on the 11th go I was the highest bidder. Using the law of averages in this way can easily earn you a whopping 25% discount. That's not bad in my book.

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