eBay’s newest tool release gives us Bid Assistant. The tool works a lot like a sniping tool, but without the true sniping. In a true sniping function, a sniping tool will wait until the absolute last second to place your max bid in hopes of surprising the current high bidder and not giving them time to outbid you.
Bid Assistant works a little differently. You set up a group of auctions that you want to bid on. Say a group of 5 or so iPods that you want only one of. You then set up your bids. The bid assistant bids on the item that ends first and if you get outbid, it bids on the next item in the group. It stops bidding on the successive items when an item is won.
You can have 10 items per group and up to 5 active groups at any one time. You also need to have a feedback of 5 or more to use the bid assistant.
Without having tested the bid assistant yet, my initial thoughts are that this is one rocking tool! Why eBay hasn’t publicized it a little harder to the eBay users is beyond me. I can’t count how many times I’ve bid on several of the same item in hopes of winning one of them. Luckily, I haven’t ended up winning more than one in any of those cases, but I’ve had canceled bids all over the place from similar situations.
Sounds like a pretty good tool for all the hard core eBay bidders out there. Also a good tool to remember the next time you want something and can only pay a certain amount.
Thanks to tamebay for the find!
[tags]ebay,ipod,bid assistant,bid group,bid groups[/tags]
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