How to win swoopo auctionsSwoopo Tips: Watch for a while you'll learn alot | How to win swoopo auctions » http://www.howtowinswoopoauctions.com Tips and Strategies on how to win Swoopo Auctions Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Swoopo Tips: Watch for a while you'll learn alot http://www.howtowinswoopoauctions.com/blog/swoopo-tips-watch-for-a-while-youll-learn-alot/ http://www.howtowinswoopoauctions.com/blog/swoopo-tips-watch-for-a-while-youll-learn-alot/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:45:06 +0000 admin http://www.howtowinswoopoauctions.com/?p=274 This is a post from: How to win swoopo auctions.com

Swoopo Tips: Watch for a while you'll learn alot

]]> news, help guides and other applications looming in the deepest darkest corners of the web. Oh and I've been very busy with my day job! However, I just wanted to post this for all the novice users out there wanting to test their arm at Swoopo. Do yourself a favour. Just watch 1 auction from the very start to the very finish! I've just done it and here are my notes... Auction ID: 150393 Rothenschild Patriarch RS-0604-SB Gents Watch Nailbiter Auction 1st point I have to make is that I'd never, ever be the first person to place a bid for an item that costs over £100 $'s Euros whatever. It just doesn't make sense, the chances nobody else will place a bid are millions to billions to 1, you'll never win the item. Let some other chancer do it first! So the bidding started and I quick took a copy of the first bit of action by simply opening up my "Windows Notepad" application and copy and pasting in the biddings from the 'bidding history' panel at the side. (I've recently found a guy doing software that looks pretty cool for tracking this window automatically for you, I'm just doing some due diligence on it first before I'm happy to promote it to my readers! Don't want anyone getting a virus or having personal information stolen from their PCs!) Anyways I copied the first 30-40 bidders usernames and then stopped as it became increasingly harder to keep up. However this was all I need as it happens, I'd copies of the main players names already. So I watched the bidding unfold and there was one bidder in particular (who's Swoopo id I'll not reveal, as I feel sorry for him) but he started bidding from the off and must have spent at least £100 worth of bids ( I just hope they were all free bids for their sake!) but other than him there were at least 8-12 bidders that were either constantly taking part in mini bidding wars or were lurking in the wings, waiting for one of the main 2 or 3 constant bidders to drop out or look weak and then there they were jumping in again trying to steal the item at the last few seconds! Now one thing I did notice and will bring up with the Swoopo support team is that when the bidding was at: £40.30 it jumped to £40.50 without there being a £40.40 why was this? It was in a very fast period of bidding so perhaps one bidder took two hits very quickly but did he get charged or was the bid free?? interesting? I'll post back with an update later! My 2nd point of contention was how the auction ended. As I was watching the auction on my pretty (poo) pc it was counting down the timer nicely for a change and then just as it hit 4 seconds, it immediately jumped to show: This auction has ended??? I was like WTF? Now I'm going to watch a few more auctions just to see if it was my pc as it could well be down to my wireless broadband connection and the poor spec on my pc but that was some serious jump! I'll be speaking to Swoopo about this also and asking them what pc spec and internet set up do they recommend if indeed it was down to some sort of lag! But all the same it's a good word of warning to any other bidders out their! If you are experiencing a bit of lag when viewing auctions. (i.e. the clock pausing regularly) When you're bidding you really don't want to be waiting till the last 4-5 second to get your bids in or you might just be timed out having already spent a pretty penny on the auction already! The Outcome The winner of this auction was a Pupsi06. That user joined in this auction around about the £40 mark (don't quote me on that figure) They placed 81 bids which cost them £40.50 then paid £75.50 which as Swoopo states was a saving of 75% off the RRP £469.99 However if this individual had done their homework before hand! They would have been able to search the internet and find that same watch available for as little as: Euros:139 or £125 See this watch site So user, Pupsi06 paid £116 in total add the £2.90 delivery charge and the grand total saving on this product was a measly £6.10 Lesson Learnt: Do your research before you start bidding. Note down the cheapest price your able to find the product for online. Then set out a price your wanting to pay for it and work out the cost in bids before you would need to stop bidding. Then work out the average price that the product has been selling for on Swoopo and see if the price you've limited yourself too and the average price gives you any room for bidding. Make sure you've watched the auction from the begining and worked out how strong the opposition is, and then and only then should you start bidding! Good Luck and I'd love to hear what people thoughts are about this post Master Swoopo

This is a post from: How to win swoopo auctions.com

Swoopo Tips: Watch for a while you'll learn alot

Technorati Tags: swoopo auctions, swoopo bidding, swoopo legit, swoopo strategy, swoopo tips, swoopo watch

]]> http://www.howtowinswoopoauctions.com/blog/swoopo-tips-watch-for-a-while-youll-learn-alot/feed/ 14