Question about CR, Prima and Ebay

[ceburto2]

As long as I follow the CR and PrimaRewards requirement of closing the Ebay bid window and clicking through their banner to open it agian, can i go back to the same item and bid again or do I have to choose a unique item each time?

THanks,
ceburto2

[sahammondsr]

I can't speak on behalf of eBay or CR, however, would personally discourage that type of bidding activity.

It's ultimately abusive to eBay and their sellers and serves to add little (if any) value to eBay auctions.

Remember, in the end, if you don't protect or take care of the advertisers who are funding your rewards, you won't have advertisers left to pay for your rewards. Rewards programs are not a something for nothing exchange. There has to be value exchanged. What value is there to eBay or an eBay seller for a person to repeated bid on the same auction and ultimately "bilk" eBay a few pennies at a time where a single bid would have been appropriate.

[ceburto2]

I agree

[TeresaD90]

I appreciate what you're saying Scott. I don't continuously rebid an item, but there are times I've been outbid the next day. On those occasions, and after making sure I talk to DH about the extra expense, I do go back through the links to raise my maximum bid. This is of course assuming one is bidding on something they really want, and that DH also approves.

[sahammondsr]

Sorry,

Perhaps I did not qualify the question well enough and responded too narrowly or I didn't sufficiently narrow my response.

What I was referring to is entering a second bid on an item that you're already the top bidder on. For example, finding a $1000 ring, bidding $1, then bidding $1.50, then bidding $2, then bidding $2.50, etc.

If you are out bid, going back and placing a higher bid is a natural part of participating in auctions and that's exactly the kind of activity eBay is looking and hoping for.

I recommend bidding what you'd actually pay, not the lowest possible bids. I've been bidding on XBOX's for $50 for some time now (even when I'm the first bidder and could have bid $1). I have not won one yet. I would not be bothered (actually would be quite pleased) if I did win 1. Since I often have more then one bid out at a time, if I happen to win more then 1 at that price, I'd just turn around and auction off the additional ones I won for a profit or save them for gifts to others or sell them to Prima Rewards and do a point raffle for them or something.

I understand and even agree with the desire to earn as many point as are possible through any/every mechanism possible. In fact, as a program operator, the more you bid, the more money our company can potentially make, so I'm in no way suggesting or trying to curtail peoples reward earning opportunities. I want people to earn rewards, I want them to earn them as quickly as possible and earn as many as they can. That's when our business is doing well, when people are getting rewards. Its just important to make sure that whatever you are doing is productive to the advertiser.

For example, in visit points, there's no harm in visiting any site once or twice just to see what it is even if the button doesn't interest you that much, but why then visit that same site every day for the next thirty days just for the extra 1 point (1 tenth of a penny) if the site doesn't interest you at all? If you are gonna visit the site that you are marginally interested in or not particularly interested in, at least view several pages on their site and/or support one of their sponsors. In the end, its better to stick with sites that interest you at least marginally, even if you earn a fraction of a penny less per day for doing so. If the traffic is responsive to the advertisers, we'll be able to continue renewing them or renewing them at higher rates, or sell their position to a competing site that is willing to pay more for the same activity.

I know its not a perfect world and there will always be people that just route out the most rewards with no regard for advertisers. Those people are only hurting themselves in that rewards will keep getting less and less as long as people do this.