URGENT! EBAY MASTERS ONLY! How do I make my bid try to reach a level that will meet the reserve?

If your high bid amount meets the reserve, it will automatically bid the reserve amount.

If the reserve price is not met then you still have to bid higher. The seller wont let you have it until you go past the reserve price. So bid what you can afford.

My trick is to always put a penny on the end as say if you can only bid up to £20.00, but put on £20.01, the bidder will think you`ve gone way past the price range - even though you are just a penny over!

Nobody else has answered this so I'll try but if someone on here sounds more convincing you can take their word over mine.

I think when your bid goes over the reserve bid then it becomes the new minimum bid. You can read the bidding directions in ebay to see if I'm correct. They're pretty easy to find. I've done it before. It only takes a minute.

It has been a while since i've frequented ebay, but if I remember correctly, you need to make your max bid higher than the reserve and the current bid will move automatically to the reserve.

Well, if you really want to spend the 199, just bid against yourself until you reach it. But you know, even then you may not reach the reserve. Xboxes go for a heck of alot more than that.

Make a bid higher then that. Put in the maximum amount you are willing to pay which has to be over $200 If other people have bid you have to bid higher then them so if you are willing to pay 300 then put in 300, you wont neccesarily have to pay that, especially if noone else wants the x-box.

Hope it helped.

Normally, it gives you the option to bid again for a higher price. I automatically go as high as I am willing to pay on those type things.

you have to increase your max bid to meet whatever the reserve is