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Bid Assistant

Why spend valuable time bidding when Bid Assistant can do it for you?

No more bidding on similar items over and over trying to win one. Designed for busy buyers, Bid Assistant eliminates the need to bid on multiple items one at a time.

Think of Bid Assistant as your own personal bidding aide. Just tell it what to bid on and your highest bid. Bid Assistant will go through your list automatically bidding for you. You can bid on a group of similar items, but win just one! It's free, so why not give it a try?

    

    Bid To Win With Bid Assistant - It's easy!

Bid Assistant can help you get what you want so you don't have to spend your time bidding on lots of individual items.

Maybe you're buying a gift and found a bunch of options, but your spending limit is $100. Or perhaps you want an iPod - ANY iPod - but the ones closest to what you want have different stuff included that makes their values different.

No worries! Just find the objects of your desire on eBay, add them to your Watched Items list, and try this:

STEP 1: Go to your Watched Items list in My eBay, checkmark each item you want to bid on, and click "Bid with Bid Assistant". It'll look something like this:


Step 2: Choose a fun name for your Bid Assistant group, and either:
  • Place a separate bid for each item in the left column - This works great for cases where you've found similar items that might be valued differently (eg: 20GB iPod vs. another seller's 40GB iPod); or you can…

  • Place a single bid in the right column to cover all the items you selected from your Watched Items list - You might use this option when all the items are the same, or when you have a hard spending limit no matter what the differences between items.

It'll look something like this:


Step 3: Review your bids -If everything looks good, click "Confirm Bid" and it will begin bidding one at a time on the items you chose, starting with the one that ends soonest. And the best part is it'll continue bidding until:

  • You win an item
  • You reach your maximum bid amount, or
  • There are no items left in the group to bid on


That's it! The gift of time is now yours to do with what you want… more shopping perhaps?

Note: Bid Assistant is only available to people with Feedback of 5 or more.