What’s your favorite bid? 1 1

[Junkdrawer]

I’m guilty of the “same digit” bid. 666 I have used quite a bit. I’ve won a few killer books with 8888.

Also for strategy sake, who would you say wins more? The 999 bid or the 1001? 

Ive bid my birthday tons of times $13.67, $1367.00 etc

[entalmighty1]

I always try to go a little bit higher than the closest big whole number.  So if the price + shipping is $500, I might go to $512 or something.  

[lizards2]

I like to win by .01 to .05, so I tend to go by fives and then the .01 or .05, such as 35.05 or 40.02

Can't do that on Clink, but I have won several on $1 over bids - $101, $151, etc.

[SkOw]

29 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

I like to win by .01 to .05, so I tend to go by fives and then the .01 or .05, such as 35.05 or 40.02

Can't do that on Clink, but I have won several on $1 over bids - $101, $151, etc.

Oh please, you only bid 69.69 on everything !!!! 

[01TheDude]

big time bidders up in here "I like to bid this many thousand"

Not sure I've ever bid more than a couple hundred on anything.

Most of my bidding is under 10 bucks.

Edited June 14, 2018 by 01TheDude

[thunsicker]

I like to bid $2,161,000.

[01TheDude]

[lizards2]

1 hour ago, SkOw said:

2 hours ago, lizards2 said:

I like to win by .01 to .05, so I tend to go by fives and then the .01 or .05, such as 35.05 or 40.02

Can't do that on Clink, but I have won several on $1 over bids - $101, $151, etc.

Oh please, you only bid 69.69 on everything !!!! 

I do like bids that bump to fun numbers on eBay =- 3.08, 5.05, 6.16, 7.27, 8.38, 9.49, 10.61, 15.15, 16.16, 21.72, 25.66, 32.33, 43.44, 54.55, 65.66, 76.77, 87.88, 98.99, and 108.61.

[Get Marwood & I]

8 posts in and no one has said "my winning one" yet? This place really is dead 

[kav]

I bid like $10.26

That way I outbid anyone bidding $10 or trying to up the ante to $10.25

[Martin Sinescu]

1 hour ago, lizards2 said:

I do like bids that bump to fun numbers on eBay =- 3.08, 5.05, 6.16, 7.27, 8.38, 9.49, 10.61, 15.15, 16.16, 21.72, 25.66, 32.33, 43.44, 54.55, 65.66, 76.77, 87.88, 98.99, and 108.61.

If I'm just placing a marker bid, I try to get it to come out to the issue number (for instance, Batman 457 for $4.57). I usually get it wrong as many times someone already has a bid in and I miscalculate how much will be added to the enemy's bid to beat mine, but it gives me a small chuckle when it come out right. I figure someone else will see it, too, and maybe crack a little smile. Just my way of spreading joy around.

[tv horror]

3 hours ago, 01TheDude said:

Is that Donald Trump?

[tv horror]

I only bid on Ebay so the way I bid is I look at the going rate say $23.00 and I know that the bidder is sitting on $30.00 so I know to bid $31.50 amd most times (until now as I've just told my secret) I win. 

[lizards2]

23 minutes ago, tv horror said:

3 hours ago, 01TheDude said:

Is that Donald Trump?

It looks like a young Eric Holder to me...., 

[namisgr]

4 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

It looks like a young Eric Holder to me...., 

You must be confused by the artist leaving out the silver spoon.

[Icculus308win]

I always incorporate a 69 in my bid. (Not joking)

 

[kav]

I do have one friend that when he wants something on ebay he never loses.  Example an item was up to $300 so he sniped a bid of $5000.

[tv horror]

1 hour ago, kav said:

I do have one friend that when he wants something on ebay he never loses.  Example an item was up to $300 so he sniped a bid of $5000.

I used to over bid in my early days of Ebay and found that I always paid far too much now I wait until the last 7 seconds and then bid, works most of the time and I pay what I can afford. 

[SeniorSurfer]

I'll usually put some odd amount for the dollars and cents (46.84, 58.63) but also, odious as it might sound, at the last snipe-filled moment though keeping in mind the bottom-line number I don't want to exceed.

Way back when, if it was something I really wanted, I used to bid an outlandish sum and just expect it would win.  There was a great science fiction S&P set that I really wanted to get for my ex's birthday so I tried that stunt and still had to sweat it out at the end.  Theoretically I was almost assured of winning, but then some weasels came around nickel-and-diming and I just paid much more than what I would have normally.  In the end, the ex kept that S&P and I was lucky to escape with my comics.  Probably some kind of moral in there somewhere.

[Treco]

20 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

8 posts in and no one has said "my winning one" yet? This place really is dead 

 Tree fiddy?