subject: Tips For Winning Online Auctions [print this page] To be able to get great offers and deals on different live auctions, here are some approaches that you need to do; first you have to be at the auction prior to the starting time to be able to have a good preview on the items.
With the help of a pen and paper, jot down each item that you are interested on and include the maximum amount of your bid on each of them.
If you do not have any idea, how each of the items will be auction, then ask the one in-charge.
If for instance most of the people in the crowd though that a certain group of items will be sold individually such as the baseball cards, they will usually prepare individual bid on each card, but then the auctioneer auctioned the cards all together.
Then the crowd will surely panic since they have prepared for it individually, but since you have the inside knowledge you will be able to prepare for this.
Find a place where you can exactly see what is being sold and at the same time you can also see the entire room.
Sometimes it is not always good to wait until the auctioneer is approaching the rock bottom; you can do this once in a while, but not always, because if you overdo this strategy, you may not get any of the best deals.
The great way to make a bid is to start at a reasonable price, if you do this you will surely get the rest of the crowd thrown up. When you do this technique, you will surely get most of the item on a single bid. Auctioneers like bidders who are fast.
This kind of bid technique will benefit you because you this may intimidate other bidders, they may never compete with what you bid.
They will tend to perceive that you are quick and powerful bidder. However, not all people can be intimidated by this kind of strategy; some may jack the bid or just bid for the reason of making you pay more.
During auction, there will be times that you will get jacked, the best thing that you can do is to use many bidding technique so that no one will be able to read you.
Always keep your cool and bid only on the item and the amount that you really planned to bid on.
Before you get yourself into auction business, you should study it first, you need to master the craft to be able to perfect it.
