My first ebay win

[lightjaw]

Hi all, i shied away from using ebay in the past, as there are just so many scammers out there. Seeing how many of you ladies and gentlemen seem to use it however, i started to try it out this week, and am pretty addicted so far!

 

I have bought two coins at the buy it now price, and i won my first auction last night, so pretty pleased with that. 

 

I wondered if there were any particular "sniping" tools that people used? I also wondered if anyone else is trying to collect the ukraine lunar series. I am sure someone mentioned they were. 

 

I seem to have really fallen for the ukraine series, not too high mintages and nice ( to me anyway) designs. Any thoughts on the series by you? Any chance of appreciation on its value do you think?

 

Cheers

[lee85]

I've just started collecting that series this week....got 2 so far

[TCSilver]

I use eBay a lot as a buyer and a seller.. 

 

As a buyer, make sure you sign up for eBay bucks, it's free, you will get 2% of you purchases back as a gift voucher to use at a later time. It works on most categories, except anything listed under bullion. But a lot of coins are listed on different categories it works under. Sometimes they will toss you 5x Reward days, which is 10% back. That's the time to go shopping. If you pay with a credit card you'll get points or cash back, in my case I get the 10% off and 1.75% cash back. So it works out to a nice discount. Sometimes, I'll see something listed in the bullion category as well as "coins: world" a second category and I'll send the seller a message, informing them if they remove the bullion category I'll buy the item. Since one qualifies for eBay bucks and the other doesn't.   

[Danny-boy]

Ebay bucks isn't available to UK registered Ebay members, just so you know TCS.

We get pretty much nothing from Ebay [emoji1]

[Hookythestacker]

Ebay bucks isn't available to UK registered Ebay members, just so you know TCS.

We get pretty much nothing from Ebay [emoji1]

Thanks for saving me a little time coz I was just about to go looking for the UK equivalent, thought I was missing out there.

[HighlandTiger]

Danny we do get nectar points which is about 0.5% off purchases on eBay. Not great but its something. I also get the same percent as a cash back on my credit card I use as well

[mrwebb697]

I've always used  Hammersnipe.

The free version bids about 10 seconds before the end of the auction,the

paid version bids at 3 seconds I think.

[Danny-boy]

I just snipe myself - I set reminders for 10 & 5 minutes and do it manually.

I used automatic snipers in the past but found them too unreliable.

[sovereignsteve]

I use JBidwatcher, free and reliable.

[mr-dead]

Gixen for me, free and never let me down -

 

http://www.gixen.com/index.php

[TCSilver]

Ebay bucks isn't available to UK registered Ebay members, just so you know TCS.

We get pretty much nothing from Ebay [emoji1]

 

That's unfortunate, you'll be surprised on how many US shoppers are not signed up for it. 

[MAXlMUS]

Gixen for me, free and never let me down -

 

http://www.gixen.com/index.php

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