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@salonika-b wrote:

OMG  I did not realise  by putting my frustration on this community board put me open to so much scruteny.  People see even what I have written so long ago.  I am not a seasoned seller.  although have done it a while.  I am too old to cope with the many changes.

I will never put a comment on this community board again.  Wow it shocked me so many replies. I have not used the selling tricks to my advantage  nowadays use Ebay seldom.  Sorry to have stated my frustration  and learned from the experience.  Thanks

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I think if you have questions etc, the boards here are great. No need to avoid them at all.

From what I can see of your problem, if I have it right, you are upset as you feel some bidders leave it late to put in bids  then run out of time to outbid others as everyone else has left it to the last few seconds too.

If that is the case, then it is going to happen whether an auction is 5 days, 7 days or whatever, because  those bidders are deliberately waiting till the last few seconds.

Extending the auction each time there is another bid would probably just frustrate people. I saw one site that did just that but I hated it as I think it was a 20 second wait after a bid and I found others jumping in at about 19 seconds and the wait started again. I lost patience watching and clicked out.

Personally, if I bid on an ebay auction, I tend to bid in the last 20 seconds so could be outbid, but I put in my max and if someone else outbids me in the last 2 seconds, so be it.