I would suggest, I don't actually know...this has to do with how many views by eBay members. I bought dozens of items from eBay and have almost always did "Buy it now"...I guess I don't see why this should bother you?
I don't know the way ebay does it, but sometimes I will watch an item with a buy it now.
I do this for several reasons. I have not made up my mind to buy it, I want to mark an item while I look for something similar and maybe at a beter price. It makes it easy to find that item if I do decide to buy it. There is one item that I have been watching for a long time. They have lots of them , and I have ordered from them twice over a years period of time. Makes it easy for me to find them again.
Why is it, that an Ebay item which is a "BUY IT NOW" will say something like "10 people watching". I can understand this on a "bid" item, but why are they watching the item if they could have already bought it? Is this just some sort of gimmic that ebay uses to make the item look more important than it is? Or maybe the seller does it?????? It seems very stupid either way!!!!
Just curious, if any of you know..... I cound not find anything in the Ebay rules and information about this.
I buy stuff on Ebay. I've also wondered about this. It is possible some folks do put items on the wish list, and wish they had the money. Or as you say, Ebay is hyping itself. Lets both hope someone knows. I'm also curious.
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Hi, I use eBay quite often, have over 700 feedbacks from mostly buying. Mostly I get hard to find stuffs when they show up there. BIN being watched is while holding onto it, we can peruse more for better deals or choices. Just put it on watched list and if I don't need it, just delete from the list. No need to bookmark it on Browser. You must have many different curious things?, LOL!
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You sure don't have to bid at the last moment to win a bid. You decide how much you are willing to go, at max, and place a bid. Ebay auto-bids for you. Willing to pay 19.99 and current bid is 3.13? Your bid will go in ar $4. Someone else is willing to pay $7, you will end up at $8. Someone else bids 17, your bid goes to 18, and if nobody bids more than $18, you got it for $18. Somebody bids $19.50 at the last minute, your bid hits $19.99 and it's yours. Somebody bids $20 and he gets it.
As for the "watching" common practice is to "watch" what you are interested in while you look for a better deal. Then you go to your "watch list" and pick the one you want to buy.
Ebay lets you know if a "buy it now" or auction item is going to be removed shortly. "bookmarking" does not give you any of those advantages.
It dont bother me, it just seems stupid. If I am interested in an item, I just bookmark it, while I look for a better priced one. I ONLY buy "Buy it Now" items. I dont think I have ever won a "bid" item. My internet is too slow to bid at the last moment.
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I shop on eBay quite a bit and just guessing that it's a ploy to make you decide to buy the item RIGHT NOW. Sort of a trick to scare you that one of those 10 people watching that item will buy that it and knock you out of your chance to own it.
Nope. It's legit. When there are "more than 30" avaialble and 5 watching, what are you scared of???????
i watch buy now occasionally. sometimes i am looking for a better deal, sometimes waitiingon cash to buy something
So, would you have bid higher???? If so, bid higher!!!!
Does the bid increment matter? I seem to recall a similar situation where I didn't get the item because I hadn't bid at least $20.50, (in your example) the minimum bid increment. Lower actual bid got it. There also seems to be some odd relationship between when the first bid from that buyer was entered in relation to mine.
I live in a clearing in the woods 12 miles from a town of less than 3,000 in a pretty isolated area of north central Arkansas . We have at least 2 computer sales/repair shops and I have a 6Mb/s internet connection . I buy a lot of stuff on ebay simply because it's usually cheaper delivered to my door than I can buy it in town . Today I received a pair of carbide scribers that I would have paid double at the local industrial supply . Recently saved several hundred bucks on a DSLR camera ... I buy only BIN and free shipping .
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Thats what I do, but those robot bids always seem to bid in the last seconds. The last time I bid on something, a bid was placed with 3 seconds before closing. That outbid me.
I suppose so, but I'm on dialup and the bookmarks are quicker than wading thru ebay. I delete old ebay bookmarks later. I probably only buy about 15 to 20 things a year. Mostly just stuff I cant get in a store, like parts for old cars or my 1950's tractor. And maybe some computer part because we have no computer stores around here. When you live in the country, there is no high speed internet and are no computer stores nearby.
decide to buy the item RIGHT NOW. Sort of a trick to scare you that one of those 10 people watching that item will buy that it and knock you out of your chance to own it.
decide to buy the item RIGHT NOW. Sort of a trick to scare you that one of those 10 people watching that item will buy that it and knock you out of y our chance to own it.
Go back and read my post again. I didn't say it wasn't legitimate nor did I say I was scared of anything. I DID say it may be a ploy by eBay to scar e a shopper into buying _r i g h t n o w_ in the hopes they may think th e item would be gone if they don't act immediately.
I make my own decisions when to buy whether 1 or 10,000 are watching a part icular item.
I have been on ebay since 1996 and I watch BIN's a lot. The reason that I do it is because it is something that I want but I think the price is too high so if it goes off unsold it will show me where it it relisted (if it was) and I can go in and see if the price has been lowered and buy it if it has been.
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