Ebay help guys ASAP!?

[Prateek]

So there are two things to keep in mind here. The first is the auction, the second is the buy-it-now button. I'm assuming the item you were looking at had both options. The buy-it-now lets a bidder purchase an item outright for a predetermined price. This stops the auction immediately, and allows the bidder to buy the item for that price. If it said 6 days, 21 hours that would signal the end of both: the auction and the buy-it-now.

You can hit buy-it-now if you like the price. However, if you think it's not going to get a lot of bids you can wait to see throughout the duration of the auction whether or not the price goes up by much. Beware however, because someone else can easily buy it and end the auction. Also, the bidding for items usually gets very intense near the end of auctions. In other words you will not necessarily know if there is a lot of interest until the last couple of minutes.

Finally, if it's a high-ticket item, there may be a reserve. This means that the seller is not obligated to make a transaction until the item has hit that reserve price. Your best bet is to buy-it-now, or wait, watch, and become the highest bidder. It can be hard to do if there are multiple people waiting until the last second though. Good luck!