sorry ebay your new auction bid format isnt helping!!

[k3r5t]

hi.

i am very angry !! this is the second item i have lost because the new ebay format bidding page DOESNT work properly!

it takes TOO long to open 😞

sure i have an older pc but i have the fastest connection speed there is .. adsl 2 broadband.

why did they change the way it WAS working????

this might not be important to you but i had my heart set on the item i lost & its not likely to come along again .. ive never seen one in all the time ive been on the net.

an important item of furniture i needed to complete my set.

is anyone else having problems with the new format ??

the dotted circle just keeps spinning..

please have compassion for people with older pcs.

thanks

[leader-of-the-band]

okay, just for clarification . . . . are you trying to say that when you go to bid towards the end of an auction the 'confirm bid' page takes too long to load?

[*sparklz*]

The bidding format has not changed.

[leader-of-the-band]

now when you bid towards the end of an auction a small window opens with a confirm bid box that shows the live countdown timer so that you can confirm the bid with the exact time remaining that you want the bid to be placed i.e. makes manual sniping much better.  This is only a recent thing on eBay.au

[leader-of-the-band]

my advice to anybody who really wants an item really badly is not try to bid right at the end in the hope of getting that rare item cheaper than you think it should be.  Bid your maximum with plenty of time to go and hope that those who try to bid at the end can't bid because of the 'problem' you speak of.

OP, the other thing is, eBay has not cost you the wins.  You had the opportunity to bid at any time during the 1, 3, 5, 7 or ten days the auction was running . . . . . AND . . . . there is no gaurantee that your high bid would have been high enough as the winner of the item may have wanted it much more than you and bid much higher than you would have ever thought of bidding.

[sexy*harley*chick]

I agree with the leader, if you desperately want an item so much and cant afford to lose it then you need to bid your max bid when you very first make a bid for it, dont leave things till the last minute, what would of happened if the power went out in your area when you were about to bid? aways bid your highest first.

[extra-keen]

And that old PC - I have one too, but it is doing the job and has been for more than 8 years now.

There is a big moneybox on the kitchen bench - it is labelled "new computer" So when the current one finally decides to go the way of all old computers, we will be ready!

[thesoulyearns]

my advice to anybody who really wants an item really badly is not try to bid right at the end in the hope of getting that rare item cheaper than you think it should be.  Bid your maximum with plenty of time to go and hope that those who try to bid at the end can't bid because of the 'problem' you speak of.

This. Not eBay's fault if you wait until the last second and hope that nothing prevents you from placing a bid. To be honest, as a seller, people waiting until the last few seconds to place a bid is annoying. Yes, I know how it goes - "start the price at what you're happy with", etc... but it's still annoying. 😛

[leader-of-the-band]

As buyer, I like bidding in the final seconds, and as a seller I like last second bids coming in.  Better they bid than not bid I say.

[***super_nova***]

If there is something I just cannot miss out on, I would have used sniping program with bid as high as I would want to go.  I like manual sniping in the last second or 2 but only if it is not all that important.  That is if something hapens and the bid does not go through, it does not matter as there is another one of these items coming up soon.