If you look the the Completed Listings from the same seller (or same search criteria), you may see that the same item has sat around as a Buy-it-Now at higher prices the weeks before.Ī reverse auction is where a seller offers an item at a very high Buy-it-Now price, hoping a sucker takes the bait. Of course the item sold for full price to someone completely different a week later. This is annoying: I was in the process of clicking to buy-something-now for $300, and at the same time, some other sucker dropped in a $10 bid. Some few auctions will have the Buy-it-Now price evaporate as soon as the first sucker early-bid comes in. The Buy-it-Now price usually stays up until someone Buys-it-Now or the listing expires, at the highest conventional bid. Some sellers will offer a Buy-it-Now price, as well as accept regular bids. This is good, because it doesn't take items off the market until someone actually can pay for it, but know that after you've successfully clicked Buy-it-Now and the confirmation button, you still haven't necessarily won the item. When you click Buy-it-Now, you'll see a message as you get to the checkout screens letting you know that if you don't hurry it up, and someone else pays for it first, you lose.

Sometimes sellers reserve the right to sell the Buy-it-Now item to the first person who pays for it, not the first person to click Buy-it-Now.

If you see something you want, meaning you've checked out the seller and read the listing, then Buy-it-Now NOW, because it may already be gone before you've finished reading it. Most Buy-it-Now prices are just the seller dreaming, but newly listed (less than an hour old) Buy-it-Now listings are sometimes where deals can be found. B&H Photo - Video - Pro Audio I use these stores.īuy-it-Now listings work completely differently from anything else on eBay.

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