Swoopo Bid Butler – Running Out of Bids

Running Out of Bids

The first way you can lose is not setting your number of bids high enough.  Let’s take the example of working against a single opponent bidding against you.  In this example you both start bidding at $10.

• You $10 (Bid 1)
• Opponent $10.15
• You $10.30 (Bid 2)
• Opponent $10.45
• You $10.60 (Bid 3)
• Opponent $10.75
• You $10.90 (Bid 4)
• Opponent ($11.05)
• You $11.20 (Bid 5)
• Opponent $11.35 (Winner)

Son of a.  If you set the Bid Butler bids too low then you run the risk of losing because you were not placing enough bids.  Luckily you can add more bids to your Bid Butler, but you must start $1 higher than the current end price you want to bid on.  In other words, you may need to start with a Bid Butler, add more to your Bid Butler and then use single bids to get it up to the point where your Bid Butler starts working again.

Did you catch that?  It was really important.  Using our example from above let’s say we ran out of bids with our Bid Butler and want to use this feature again.  My bid butler would need to be set to $12.35, but the bid will never get there because we’re in Swoopo land not regular auction land.  My opponent is already winning so he can’t bid again.  You only have 15 seconds to reactivate the Bid Butler.  You may set it to $12.35 to kick back in, but the whole time the clock is ticking.  After you set it you need to click Single bid to move the price to $11.50.  You have to keep using single bid against your opponent until the price gets above $12.35 and then you can rely on your bid butler.

But wait, if you read some of the other posts you remember that having too many bids qued up in your Bid Butler can cause a cascading effect where you and another Bid Butler burn through bids faster than Lebron James driving a lamborghini.

This is what makes Swoopo difficult and frustrates people not only do you have to understand the fundamentals of Swoopo you must understand that you cannot have one blanket strategy that works every time.  You must read the room and know who else is involved.  Future post will be related to reading the room and when to apply the correct strategy.