My initial reply to you, which you quoted there, was mocking you for being an ass and trying to tell me what I know, not an actual admission that your baseless declaration of the contents of my brain includes whatever you think it includes.
The bots aren’t there to “beat” humans like it’s a sport competition. They exist so that people can win without having to do the job in person. It’s the auto- part that caused them to be created, not the winning part.
I see now that I’m not the only one who has won auctions on eBay before. How ya doin’, Maggie?
Which, again, isn’t at all what I was bitching about.
Are you this much of a dick all the time? You come in, tell people what they think, what they should have done, and what they really ought to be bitching about, and then berate them when they don’t agree with your “wisdom”, even after they’ve bid you a pleasant adieu?
When I (manually) snipe, I’m pretty sure I always do it under 10 seconds. It’s been awhile, but I’m pretty sure I used to do it under 5 seconds. I thought that’s what everyone did, unless your computer was slow or something.
If a bot bids in the last few seconds (you even used the word “nanoseconds”) how could you have possibly received and read the message and placed the bid in time in time to beat a bot that is designed to beat humans?
Man, you’re clueless.
Show me where I did that.
What you could have done that would have been advantageous to you.
This is why you set the highest price you are willing to pay at the outset.
Proxy bidding is there for a reason. It works.
If the starting bid is set at $10 and you set a max bid of $30, your opponents have no way of knowing this. They DO know that anything below that will be outbid instantly (once they start trying, of course). If you aren’t willing to pay more than $30, then you don’t deserve the item.
If you would answer x-ray vision’s question, I’d be better able to understand why you would bemoan that fact and what the point of the OP is. In the OP, you acknowledge that the app will be useless against those that use bots, but here you’re saying it would have been useful had you received the notification.
I don’t get this sniping business or wanting to increase your bid later. When you first bid you should bid the maximum you’re willing to pay. If you do this then you will never need to increase your bid because your bid is already the maximum you are willing to pay.
Edit: The OP is definitely correct in saying he was beaten by a bot, the eBay bot, it bids on behalf of everyone.
If everyone just bid the max they wanted to pay and left it at that, then sniping would be obsolete and there would be no use for it. But as you can see from the OP, not everyone does this. You can see back and forth bidding with regularity on eBay.
If the OP was outbid by someone that sniped, that bidder was able to avoid the OP getting the notification and outbidding him. By bidding at the last moment, that bidder avoided the back and forth bidding and outbidding and was able to help insure not only winning the item, but winning it at a better price.
Yep. I’ve bought many (hundreds?) of items from EBay. Other than those items where I was the only bidder, all of my purchases were made with snipe bids placed in the closing few seconds.
You have yet to give any sort of coherent answer as to how an app is going to effectively notify you in time to defeat a bot that puts in a bid seconds before the end of the auction.
I said you acknowledged that the app will be useless against those that use bots. That’s what you did via sarcasm in the OP:
If that meant something else, what was it? Can you tell us how you think the app would have been useful in winning the CD when you were outbid by someone in the very last seconds of bidding?