Give me your ebay bidding tips - pwease

There's an item on fleabay I've got my eye on and as I rarely if ever use ebay would appreciate any good bidding tips from those who are old-hands at it. Ta.

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auctionsniper.com

Snipe lest ye be sniped.

Chuck the highest bid you are willing to make at the last possible instant. Scientifically proven by men with sliderules to b ethe most price-efficient method of bidding with Ebay's auction model.

enter the highest amount you would be willing to pay for it and wait

Use auctionsniper.com.

Tomasito's method is good too but if you lose by a quid you'll be annoyed as fuck.

Bid a higher amount than everyone else. That seems to work for me.

Cool, cool. Thanks gents, auctionsniper is in action...

I'll let you know how I get on.

And 'ha!' at hippy.

It had better not be the same thing I'm trying to win.... go me!

Chuck the highest bid you are willing to make at the last possible instant. Scientifically proven by men with sliderules to b ethe most price-efficient method of bidding with Ebay's auction model.

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  Who cares if someone pays more, if it is truly your maximum, then it doesn't matter.
  

Stupid last minute price rises, I really want to buy this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEBTOX:IT&item=190217651051&_trksid=p3984.cTODAY.m238.lVI
But its now going for more than I was planning to spend, not sure if I should stick it out or just hold.

i find bidding while drunk works wonders

Well I'm drunk, it has 18 minutes to go, lets see what happens

always add a bit to the amount you actually want to pay, especially if it's a round number....if you want to pay 200 bid 213 or something, if you want to pay a tenner bid 11.87, etc, etc.....chances are there'll be a few people with the same budget as you ...and those almost meaningless few pence / quid could make the difference and you'll be laughing instead of kicking yourself....and deffo use a sniping service, I use esnipe.com

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Also Hammersnipe.