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| It's also worth knowing that the Make An Offer button is removed from listings once the first bid has been placed.
If there's an item that you really, really want, it can be worthwhile manually placing a bid at the opening level, just to have this button removed. Placing a bid also used to remove the Buy It Now option from auctions which also had a BIN option (a practice which was called "BIN Stomping") - not sure whether that still works, though. You obviously need to put your "real" best bid in Gixen after you have manually bid at the minimum level. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| It wasn't a BIN, the amount of which would be set by the seller, it was Best Offer, that amount of which would be set by the buyer and then later accepted by the seller, as shown here.
The seller accepted that offer at 10:38:04PM GMT on 15 Feb 2020, causing the auction to end. The auction was started at 8:55:06PM GMT on 9 Feb 2020 with a duration of 7 days meaning it was due to end at 8:55:06PM GMT on 16 Feb 2020. So the seller accepted the offer 22 hours 17 mins before the auction was due to end. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| The seller just got back to me again, seems she did take a lower offer just before the bidding was due to finish???? WHY????
I think she was gutted as I told her my max bid was 40% higher than the offer she took! - And she knew about ebay snippers which made it even more crazy she took such a low offer. So apologises, not gixens fault, I just didn't read the listing properly as usually buy it now prices are higher than the auction start bid...not the same....seems a silly system. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| The seller must be lieing to you, even if unintentionally so, if they don't know what they did when they received that offer.
To produce that output on Ebay and also for the description the seller has given you to be the truth would be a major failure of the Ebay site, the likelihood is extremely remote. In any case, there isn't anything that Gixen software could have done to change the outcome for your bid. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| Hi
Yes, I saw that, but I contacted the seller and she said that she didn't accept a best offer, it went to auction and only 1 bid received....Thats why I thought it might be a bug in the given system....bit of a mystery. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, if you look at the bids page, you can see that the seller accepted a 'Best Offer' of ÃGBP 75.00, nearly a day before the auction was due to end.
You would have to ask the seller why they did that rather than allow the auction to run its course. I'm seeing a lot more 'Best Offer' buttons on auctions these days... and things more often go at lower prices as a result... You would have to ask Ebay why they are restricting their own and sellers income by encouraging that trend... |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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324068111541 AUCTION ENDED EARLY OR SNIPE LATE To be fair, maybe the seller added a 'buy it now' at their lowest price, from what I can see from the bid history? Not sure why you would do that as a seller, but my bad if that was the case. I do love Gixen really! |
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| What is the auction number and what was the status on both the Main and Mirror tabs ? | |
| Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 1:43 pm Post subject: really sad...first time ever gixen service has let me down. |
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| just lost out on the most beautiful item because my snipe was too late.
I am a subscribing member of given and I have used it for such I long time and I can't remember it ever letting me down. Have I just been unlucky or is the service starting to get unreliable? Thanks |
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