US user sniping UK listings

[Gastric]

I'm a US user. However, there's a UK listing I want to snipe. I did not change any of my Gixen settings and simply entered the UK listing number into Gixen and it appears to have found the correct auction and appears to have the correct time remaining value.

I did place one small incremental manual bid just to see if my US account could login and bid successfully, which it did.

However, I have no experience doing UK bid snipes so I have little confidence everything will work properly. In fact, after months of using Gixen I have yet to win a snipe yet as I'm always outbid by a few dollars a few seconds after my own bids, though I'm not necessarily saying that's Gixen's fault.

Has anyone done UK bids from US accounts?

[Cupid]

I live in the United Kingdom, I bid on UK auctions using gixen all the time (though I do buy things worldwide as well), there are no issues with gixen in this respect it works fine.

eBay accounts are global you can use them on any site, but you can only bid on auctions that will ship to the location at which the account is registered.

A couple of things you should consider though, bear in mind the cost of shipping and be sure you know what you are going to be expected to pay for this if you win. Also dont forget that you are bidding in the currency of the auction, if its a UK listing that is most likely to be British Pounds, you can pay those using Paypal but you should consider how many dollars that is going to cost you and bid/snipe accordingly.
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Mark

[misnomer]

I was just wondering about this exact topic. When you place a bid amount for an eBay UK listing (from, say, a US or Canadian account), will it be in GBP? Or rather, will the bid be placed in the site's default currency (GBP for .co.uk, USD for .com, CAD for .ca, and so on)?

Say, there's a listing for 10 GBP and you put 12 in the "your bid" box. It's 12 GBP, not USD, correct?

I don't know how difficult it would be to implement, but perhaps having the currency displayed would be a cool new feature. :)

[Cupid]

[Gixen]

[misnomer]

Thanks for the clarification, Cupid. I probably should have worded my question "is the Gixen bid amount in the same currency as the auction?" Would've been a lot less verbose, too. :)

[nochkin]

You just need to make sure that seller will ship item in your country as some sellers put a requirement to block bidders which are registered in the countries they don't ship.

You can either ask or place a small bid. The last option is better as sometime sellers will answer "no restrictions" while they have it.