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The listing, 4 Gauge Checkerprint Plugs! Free Shipping Trusted Seller! has ended.
My brother in law says these are 4 gauge, I trust his judgement (I met him and his brother in a tattoo shop lol) but I'm just putting it out there that it's a estimate I could be wrong. Free shipping in the US!!
i find it odd that soon as i bid.and push the button that someone has out bidding me at the same time i did...sry but if that the way u want to play.i will never bide on your stuff every again!
that's how bidding works. someone will come and bid say, 100 credits, and listia automatically bids on their behalf until you go over 100 credits (or whatever it may be). I have no control over it or other bidders.
unless you are refreshing the page constantly as someone is bidding you won't see that happen. here is some more info to help you understand the bidding process (this is from eBay, but is the same thing as listia basically):
Proxy Bidding, by Example Let’s walk through a detailed example of proxy bidding. The process is totally automated, and goes something like this: You see an item that has a current bid of $100, and you tell eBay that you’re willing to pay $115 for it. The $115 becomes your maximum bid. The bid increment on this item is $2.50, so eBay’s bidding software—your proxy—bids $102.50 in your name. This becomes the current high bid. Another bidder sees this item, and bids the next bid increment (as specified on the item listing page), $105. Your proxy sees the new bid, and ups its bid automatically to $107.50. A third bidder sees the item, and enters a maximum bid of $150. In accordance with the current bid increment, his proxy enters a bid of 110. Your proxy responds with a bid of $112.50. The third bidder’s proxy responds with a bid of $115. Since the next bid increment would be $117.50—which is over your maximum bid amount—your proxy drops out of the bidding, and eBay notifies you (by email) that your bid has been surpassed. (If the auction were to end right then, the third bidder would win the auction with a bid of $115. Even though he specified a $150 maximum bid, the bidding never got that high.) At this point, you can place a new maximum bid for the item, or you can throw in the towel and let the new bidder have the item.
Understanding Proxy Bidding The automated bidding software used by eBay is calledproxy (or "robot") software. If you’re a bidder, eBay’s proxy software can save you time and help ensure that you get the items you want. (If you’re a seller, it doesn’t really matter, because all you’re interested in is the highest price at the end of the auction—no matter how it got there!) On eBay, proxy software operates automatically as anagent that is authorized to act in your place—but with some predefined bidding parameters. You define the maximum amount you are willing to bid, and then the proxy software takes over and does your bidding for you. The proxy software bids as little as possible to outbid new competition, up to the maximum bid you specified. If it needs to up your bid $1, it does. If it needs to up your bid $5, it does—until it hits your bid ceiling, when it stops and bows out of the bidding. The proxy software bids in the official bid increments used by eBay. If the next bid is $0.50 higher than the current bid, the software ups your bid $0.50. In no instance does the software place a bid over the next bid increment. (It’s pretty smart software!) Of course, because all bidders are using eBay’s proxy software, what happens when you have two users bidding against each other? Simple—you get a proxy bidding war! In this instance, each proxy automatically ups its bid in response to the last bid by the other proxy, which rapidly (seemingly instantaneously) increases the bid price until one of the proxies reaches its maximum bid level. Let’s say one proxy has been programmed with a maximum bid of $25, and another with a maximum bid of $26. Even though the initial bid might be $10, the bids rapidly increase from $10 to $11 to $12 and on to $26, at which point the first proxy drops out and the second proxy holds the high bid.