
You only have to pay if you win an auction, then the site takes $0.01 per $ that the item sold for. You have to load it up with some 'credits' from paypal, then give it your ebay details. I've used if for many years, and it's been good. Private listing - bidders' identities protected $0.99 at 10:22:15AM PDT Private listing - bidders' identities protected $1.29 at 1:34:29PM PDT

Private listing - bidders' identities protected $3.00 at 12:13:28PM PDT Private listing - bidders' identities protected $4.00 at 5:54:01PM PDT Private listing - bidders' identities protected $10.01 at 3:48:47AM PDT Private listing - bidders' identities protected $12.50 at 3:58:32PM PDT
#Gixen offset full
This is the full bidding on the knife/seller in question: These increase your odds of winning the auction drastically provided your bid is high enough. You also might try a bidding service which will place your high bid automatically a few seconds before the auction ends. It's easy to get caught up in a bidding frenzy and pay well more than you should. When bidding, set your limit and don't exceed it. The private bid is designed to level the playing field. Vendors would do this in order to avoid a high final bid fee. The shipping/postage fee is a fee Ebay devised to stop vendors from having a very low starting fee and a high postage. Now supposing he guessed wrong and was the highest bidder, he'd still have the item he was selling and would have to pay the insertion fee, the final bid fee and the shipping/postage fee on an item he never sold.

In order for a buyer to bid on his own wares he'd have to have a separate Ebay account using a separate email.
#Gixen offset manual
If they stopped bidding a minute or 2 before this would either be a manual bid and sometimes you could actually guess if they were using dial up instead of a digital system. If their history showed they bid in the last few seconds, they would most likely be using a bid system. Does this individual bid at the last minute or few seconds.
#Gixen offset code
When you knew the bidder by either their name or the assigned code name you could track their previous auctions which could tell you how they bid.

Previously you could identify a bidder by their name and then it was changed to a code name. It's in place to provide an anonymous auction. I feel stupid for being a nice guy to him.ĭon't feel stupid, a private listing has nothing to do with the buyer. I probably saved him a lot of lost sales, and yet he bids against me.sheesh! What a nice guy /s. "private listing - bidders' identities protected $12.50 at 3:58:32PM PDTĪll the bids, other than my two, were "private listing" which my understanding is a seller's method to avoid selling too cheaply. Instead I got this (here are the last two bids, including my 2nd bid): He thanked me, as he said the blade hardness was supposed to say 58 HRC.Īctually, I thought he might give me one as a thank you gift. So I alerted him to the error, which he said was indeed an error. He had many listed such and in the sample of bids, I did not see anyone but "private bidder" bidding the prices up. I had done the seller a big favor by alerting him to a mistake in his knife description (for his many knives) where his knives were listed as 48 to 50 HRC, which was so soft that of course he was losing sales.
