Hunting For Bargains On Ebay- The easy way

I absolutely ADORE ebay and spend alot of my time online shopping andjust surfing around the eBay website hoping to stumble upon a bargain.I shop alot for my kids on here, and if you look hard enough, you willfind an auction that everyone has seemed to forget about, and snap up areal great bargain!Explore ALL Options.Sometimes there will beauctions with no gallery picture and a really vague heading and youthink to yourself 'ahh nothing special... oohh look theres a cutepicture of a such and such' and forget all about that tiny little blotof writing which seems to disappear up your screen. You may be missing out on something reallyspecial. Some people are just inexperienced/new to ebay or do not wantto add a gallery picture because their item is something that is notworth ALOT of money, so, they hope their title will be enough toattract the high bidding buyers. Most of the time these items havelittle to no bids on them. I have personally found extremely goodcondition pumpkin patch or fisher price items on the site which i havebought for 99c! And theseitems sell for ATLEAST $10 . Don't just go for the items with the bigflashy, highlighted titles, take the time to hunt!Slow down and read the auctions carefully.Somepeople are easily detered by the words 'second hand' or 'slightlydamaged' and quickly hit the back key or close the window beforereading the entire auction. It pays to read an auction carefully as itmay just be something minor that may cost you a little bit of money tofix but possibly save you anywhere from $10 to $100 to even $1000depending on what your looking for! Some of the best items i havebought off ebay have been second hand, and buying them at a bargainmakes it an even sweeter victory!WAIT!Takea breath, calm down, and instead of stumbling across a bargain andbidding straight away, simply, wait and add it to your watch list. Onebay, there are alot of competative people and if they see somethingthey want and you've bid on it, they'll keep bidding until they beatyour highest price and then you'll end up paying more to get somethingyou wanted to get on the cheap! My tip? Wait until the last day andthen bid, less bids can be placed in a 24hr time frame then they can ina 48 or 120 hr period... true?Hunt hunt hunt hunt!If you come across a seller that is selling multiples of the one itemat different times in the auction format, watch a couple of theminstead of just one. If the one you were intending to bid on hasexceeded your budget, delete it from your watch list and see if theother one you've bookmarked is still at a lower price and keep goinguntil you win an item at the price YOU want to pay. That way your notblowing your budget on just one item!PostageIf a buyer is selling more than one thing that you are intendingon bidding on, ask how much combined shipping will cost you. The moreyou buy from the one buyer the more you can possibly SAVE BIG onshipping! For example. If you buy one top from one person and you buyanother from another one... you could be looking at around $9.50 juston postage ALONE (based on Aus Post shipping charges)! Whereas if youbuy the two tops from the one person you could look at paying just$4.75 for the postage and maybe even squeeze a few more tops or extrastoo! It pays to shop with the one buyer!I hope this has helped all of you in some way, it was fun to write and share my tips for ebay with you! Enjoy eBay!