Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 152 | Read GT's 63 other Ask SC answers

Hello, Manuel:

In my opinion and experience, there is no definite way to accurately predict the final price in the PTP game. There are several "revolving" factors that change with each new auction, making it difficult to pinpoint an accurate price.

There is a different mix of bidders each game, plus the time of day an auction occurs changes, plus the time of month makes a difference, plus the times when the auctions are scheduled to begin keep changing!

Tips to Do:

- Compare the closing price on past auctions
- Consider the time of day (when certain countries may be awake or sleeping)
- Consider the type of auction it is: 1st Win, Big Dog, Double MRP, Winner Bids Free, etc.
- Consider how many other auctions are actively running at the same time

Tips to watch out for!

- The auction times change! You may place a PTP guess thinking an auction will end at three in the morning, only to find that it was pushed ahead to run much earlier, or pushed back so it doesn't run until morning the next day when lots of bidders are active! That has happened to me many times.

- Bidders at the beginning of the month generally have more TCredits to work with than bidders towards the end of the month, so in the beginning, some auctions end high, while towards the end, the same types of auctions might end low.

Bottom line: The best way to predict the final price is to spend time every day observing various auctions to get a feel for popular items and likely bidding prices.

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Hello, Manuel:

In my opinion and experience, there is no definite way to accurately predict the final price in the PTP game. There are several "revolving" factors that change with each new auction, making it difficult to pinpoint an accurate price.

There is a different mix of bidders each game, plus the time of day an auction occurs changes, plus the time of month makes a difference, plus the times when the auctions are scheduled to begin keep changing!

Tips
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Tanya's 15 other Ask SC answers

This is a great question especially for "New Affiliates" coming on board, since we have been around and playing this PTP Game for awhile already!! Initially, I was throwing out dollar amounts based on NO Rhyme or Reason! Then I decided I would begin Researching the TIPS on the PTP page; After-all, our Admins put these sections there for a reason!
So, at first I would simply view the first page of Auctions...I would throw out a few numbers in between. This was NOT Successful!
Step TWO of my Research I found it made a large difference on the:
1) Time of Day-
2) Precise Product-
3) How Many "LIKE Auctions" were going on at same time
4) Calculation of the FINAL PRICE at 77% off the Price based on the "Lock in Price"
5) Finally, choose a number based on ALL THE ABOVE FACTORS WEIGHED IN!
We also MUST remember "YES" Luck might have something to do with Winning, BUT, the WINNER, ONLY needs to be the CLOSEST to the ACTUAL PRICE, IF No one has the PRECISE Number!
These Factors have worked for me and I hope they HELP You Too!
Happy Auctioning!
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This is a great question especially for "New Affiliates" coming on board, since we have been around and playing this PTP Game for awhile already!! Initially, I was throwing out dollar amounts based on NO Rhyme or Reason! Then I decided I would begin Researching the TIPS on the PTP page; After-all, our Admins put these sections there for a reason!
So, at first I would simply view the first page of Auctions...I would throw out a few numbers in between. This was NOT Successful!
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Joseph's 53 other Ask SC answers

Pick The Price (PTP) – You have to participate to win and to experience it. Some don’t like to bid but they are willing to go for PTP. The best way to predict the final price is to think and practice every day / every month until you reach 200 AVP for maximum limit. More than a limit is better for PTP practise. DO practise until you win for the final price. Here, I’d like to show you a simple steps but it is really difficult to follow and i can`t guarantee you to win.  Below is my daily basis for PTP and i use to;
 
1. Communications and Teamwork – Try to refer to your upline or your team members and A2A friends for their experience in how to predict the final price for PTP. Might be they have a very good tips and ideas in PTP?
 
2. Check Latest winner – For example check at latest winner for PTP winner for today and winner of yesterday PTP. Just review and click the number below (numbers at Latest winner page) to see overall winner of Pricebender and PTP winner.
 
3. Check type of Auctions – Junior (Jr) Auction, SFI Extra Auction, Big Dog Auction and Double MRP Auction. This is to ensure that who will be the next bidder for the next upcoming auction and think to predict your final PTP.
 
4. Think about Time – Day time or night time. Public Holiday or weekend – according to my fellow affiliate….busy or not busy time at home people like to bid. Winning prize will up and down (The price will not consistence during this time.) Just refer to point No. 2
 
5. Pay Day, Commission day – For example, yesterday 9/11/2014 at 11.26am US TIME auction for S-Builder 1 pack with double MRP, the price go higher to $33.78. This may be because of commission day or could be people like to bid at double MRP so you can put higher PTP for the final price...and for sure the final prize for the next upcoming auction will be at lower $10.00 to $15.00 average. PTP average will be at $13.50.
 
6. Check average Winning Price – You can check the Statistic averages price win of the day through latest winner.  This process will set your mind to set your final PTP for upcoming auction.
 
7. Comparison price of Product has won in Auction – accessories product (TV, iPad, iPod) TCredit, PSAs or CSAs. For example, notice average lowest price as per Lifetime Custom Prestige Domain and set you target final PTP.
 
8. See and review at Pricebenders Live Auction – at this side, you will see who is in bidding, who is leading and who the winner is. By knowing the winner and the final prize at live auction side will bring you more clues to predict to the final prize for next PTP.
 
9. See and review at upcoming Auctions – at this side, you will see how many upcoming auctions for 30 minutes to 1 hour time reminding and at this point you will know the average number of auctions for next 30 minutes. If more than 6 Auctions at the same time, the winning prize will be low average $1.00 to $5.00 and sometime it is depend on what type of Auctions and what type of product they bid.
 
10. See and review at Pricebenders Auction Center – Top of overall, the most important is by review Auction Schedule at Pricebenders Auction Centre.  At this side, you can see Schedule* (Today and Tomorrow) Start (Start time) in** (in 1h 3m), Notes (Type of Auctions – Jr, DP, 1WA), Description (Product to bid in Live Auction) and click “More” button it will show more upcoming Auctions. I recommend to you to review upcoming auction, Live Auction and also Pricebenders Auction Centre at one time and back to Latest winner list. By doing this process daily before you predict the final price for PTP, i am sure you have more clues coming in to you mind and to set up your final PTP.
 
11. Set your target to predict final price for PTP. – Try to Participate at PTP for 10 times a day with just 10 TCredits. You can put the same price for all of your PTP at a time. Let say if you think that the final price for the Next PTP is $4.55, you can put all your PTP at $4.55 at one time.
 
12. Sometime some technique, some other way to win – you pick the final price and you participate in bidding, when your final price is very near, you stop to click button “BID NOW” and let the other bidder win, and you win the PTP. Sometime it could be like that to win and it happened many times. I’ve found this technique happened at Big Dog Auction 3 times before.
 
Hopefully all the entire answer will wake you up and set your final PTP and win!
 
Have fun and good luck.
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Pick The Price (PTP) – You have to participate to win and to experience it. Some don’t like to bid but they are willing to go for PTP. The best way to predict the final price is to think and practice every day / every month until you reach 200 AVP for maximum limit. More than a limit is better for PTP practise. DO practise until you win for the final price. Here, I’d like to show you a simple steps but it is really difficult to follow and i can`t guarantee you to win.  Below is my daily basis
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sunildatt's 150 other Ask SC answers

Hello Manual Gil,

Do not be under the impression that the winners of PTP have won PTP because they have predicted the EXACT price.

Please read the rules of the games. It says who ever first chooses the price of the winning bid ,if not exact , then nearer to the winning bid will be declared as winner.

Please note that we only come to know the WINNER. We do not come to know what winning Price he / she predicted.

So key to be a winner is choose a bid that will start after many hours. ( Hoping that no one has put their entry before you)

Then for that item see the winning history of the auctions. Suppose the bid is going to happen at 15 hours, check from the history, what was the winning bid price around 15 hours in last 10 days. Select the price just below as your prediction.

Be consistent so even if you do not win PTP , next time predict same price for say 10 times. May be you will win ONCE.

Hope this helps you.


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Hello Manual Gil,

Do not be under the impression that the winners of PTP have won PTP because they have predicted the EXACT price.

Please read the rules of the games. It says who ever first chooses the price of the winning bid ,if not exact , then nearer to the winning bid will be declared as winner.

Please note that we only come to know the WINNER. We do not come to know what winning Price he / she predicted.

So key to be a winner is choose a bid that
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stefan's 93 other Ask SC answers

Great question! Glad you asked.

The key to predicting the final price in "Predict the Price" really comes down to the following variables:

§ Day of week
§ Time of day
§ Type of product
§ Type of auction
§ Number of similiar auctions around the same time

When you go to pick the price you will want to click the price history link. This is where you will spend your time looking at the auctions that ended and tabulating the data into a spreadsheet using the above variables.

I.E.

Say for auction of 300 Tcredits. Your data tabulation may be like this:

Price | Day Sold | Time Sold | Auction Type | Other Similar Auctions
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$1.75 Mon 7am Double MRP Yes, see next line
$10.50 Mon 6:50am WBF Yes, see line above
$35.00 Sat 7pm BIG DOG No

As you can see, by building tables of data like above, you will start to see trends.
Then you can further analyze those trends to see like variables. Such as auctions that sold
for under $5 were more common on Monday - Friday mornings before start of business on the East
Coast of the US.

Once you group trends, you can then do price averaging of those auctions to come up with an average
predictable selling price based on law of averages and past events. This is of course is never absolute
usually with a high variance of plus or minus 10% or lower but if you can get this average price and tack the

§ Day of week
§ Time of day
§ Type of product
§ Type of auction
§ Number of similar auctions around the same time

around it, one can easily apply this to future auctions. If you know that a Sunday afternoon auction for IPAD no auto bidder usually averages $40 then you would just enter your price into any auction matching these details. Likewise, a silver coin auction coming up at 12 noon on a Tuesday in the US normally averages less than $3 then you would enter that into any auction matching these details.

All one can do is research and use statistical processes to average out the probability of what a future auction might end at price wise. Your won’t likely get 100% or even 60% or 40% right but if you can guess even one in 10 you are doing well and ahead of the pack.

I hope i was able to provide some insight into how to better your chances of winning Pick The Price.

Good Luck
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Great question! Glad you asked.

The key to predicting the final price in "Predict the Price" really comes down to the following variables:

§ Day of week
§ Time of day
§ Type of product
§ Type of auction
§ Number of similiar auctions around the same time

When you go to pick the price you will want to click the price history link. This is where you will spend your time looking at the auctions that ended and tabulating
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Affiliate since: 06/24/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jason's 11 other Ask SC answers

Thanks Manuel for your question.

Well as far as I can see, in Picking the Price some basic rules must guide your Estimate:


1. Product!

2. Its Price History!

3. Type of Auction!


These three I feel are key to making an 'Well- educated' guess.

1. Product

Well generally Electronics auction to higher prices. TripleClicks products of larger Size (eg. 500 pack TC or 6 months TC subscription) also.

BUT YOU MUST TAKE IN TO ACCOUNT point 2 and 3


2. Its' Price History:

Here is the source of much of the information you need. Firstly who won the auction? Was he/she a common winner, a familiar name in most auctions. That will tell you race history according to the time it took place and its duration. Vital information.

Here you can also see the time of day the auction took place.

Here you see the winning price and also the winning PTP estimate.


3. The type of Auction:

Well for this the only information you can perceive will be dependent point 1 and 2.

If the Product is good and the Price history tells you the time is right for this type of auction to result High or Low price.(As per History)

Consider the Auto-bider availability, Big Dog, JR and DP


But after all your consideration of the information available.
Follow your gut!

Plus my own personal tip:
If you are estimating to the cent, let your final figure be an odd number. Your estimate will be closer if it came down to the cent comparison.

Good Luck! You win either way with matching VP to every bid and 5 MRP.

Go for it!





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Thanks Manuel for your question.

Well as far as I can see, in Picking the Price some basic rules must guide your Estimate:


1. Product!

2. Its Price History!

3. Type of Auction!


These three I feel are key to making an 'Well- educated' guess.

1. Product

Well generally Electronics auction to higher prices. TripleClicks products of larger Size (eg. 500 pack TC or 6 months TC subscription) also.

BUT YOU
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Affiliate since: 06/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read David's 10 other Ask SC answers

I've won the Pick The Price Contest a few times , and so I can only tell you what has worked for me.

First and foremost, you must play often...face it, if you're not in the game, you can't win!

Here is my list of things I do for this contest...

1. I play often
2. I pick one item only (it may be listed more than once for different times, this is ok...play all times listed) example: 300 pack T-Credits with auctions listed at 24 min., 1 hr 15 min., and 2 hrs. It's one item but played 3 times.
3. Look at the history of item picked (be sure to look at the times)
4. Place your guess based on what you've seen with it's history and time

Typically speaking, as the auction times get later and later, your guess should be less and less.

I hope this has helped. Good luck!
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I've won the Pick The Price Contest a few times , and so I can only tell you what has worked for me.

First and foremost, you must play often...face it, if you're not in the game, you can't win!

Here is my list of things I do for this contest...

1. I play often
2. I pick one item only (it may be listed more than once for different times, this is ok...play all times listed) example: 300 pack T-Credits with auctions listed at 24 min., 1 hr 15 min., and
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

I will not say the best way, but rather how you can gain experience at the auctions to assist you in making an informed decision on Pick the Price (PTP). It is important as a first step to be a regular observer of the auctions and may be a participant too.

When you observe or/and participate, you will begin to understand the price range with which certain products are won, the time of the day and the associated prices at which they are won, including the behavior of participants.

In certain cases for example auction may be won cheaply where only one 'big dog' is in participation and where he/she starts bidding early. Different time zones may have the effect of unleashing different caliber of participants at the auctions, while the behavior of participants ranges from those who are risk averse, risk takers, to those with pride and ego. Therefore, there is need to understand these intricacies when making a decision on PTP.

Please note that these explanations are not themselves sacrosanct in nature and therefore guarantee that this pattern will always be the case. This is because the auctions can be very dynamic and erratic at times and most importantly, the line between the issues I mentioned above are gradually becoming blurred and it may just boil down to share luck.
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I will not say the best way, but rather how you can gain experience at the auctions to assist you in making an informed decision on Pick the Price (PTP). It is important as a first step to be a regular observer of the auctions and may be a participant too.

When you observe or/and participate, you will begin to understand the price range with which certain products are won, the time of the day and the associated prices at which they are won, including the behavior of participants.

In
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

The winning bid that we want to predict at Pricebender is completely random. But we are not totally blind with information. We know at least the range of the winning bids by scanning through the records of winners.

We can use two kinds of strategies.

1. We can use logical prediction. - This means, you look at the value of items out for bidding and the the types of bidding methods. (regular, first time, junior, big dog, double MRP, and No auto bidding).

You can look at the records of each item bid within the range of the winning bids. It is good to choose 1 bid price for same item with such method of bidding method and stick with it until you win.

2. We can use scientific statistical analysis. - I have done this myself, I down loaded 6 months of winning data and put them in excel. I sorted it according to item.

Then each item I also sorted it according to time that it was won (24 hours). from this classification, I took the average.

After that I made a matrix, with different items in rows versus the 24 hours in a day in the column. I put the average winning bid at the intersection cell.

I use it to predict the winning bid of certain item at a certain time. I stick to that number until I win. So, far so good.

note: Instead of average (mean) you can also use the mode- the highest number of winning bid occurrence.
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The winning bid that we want to predict at Pricebender is completely random. But we are not totally blind with information. We know at least the range of the winning bids by scanning through the records of winners.

We can use two kinds of strategies.

1. We can use logical prediction. - This means, you look at the value of items out for bidding and the the types of bidding methods. (regular, first time, junior, big dog, double MRP, and No auto bidding).

You can look
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Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Djebah's 53 other Ask SC answers

Hello,

Pick The Price popularly called PTP is a contest in which the participants are required to correctly predict the final price of an auction or the closest to the final price if no exact picks are entered. Whenever an auction's final price is represented by more than one entry, the first entry received is deemed the winner.

Each win gives you a share of the daily Zackpot and a ''Hammer on the head'' gives you five shares of the daily Zackpot. For those who don't know, a ''Hammer on the head'' is the term used whenever a participant predicts the exact final price of an auction. One TCredits is deducted each time you enter for the contest and there are no win limits.


I have won the PTP almost a 100 times and i have won ''Hammer on the head'' numerous times too, though i have stopped playing for a while now. The strategy i use is simple. From studying the auctions i have come to know that most auctions are won below the $10 mark. With that at the back of my mind, i randomly pick any number from $0.05 to $5 for the cheap items like gift cards, Movies, TCredit Packs, S builder, CSAs etc and i pick between $10 to $38 for the expensive items like IPad and Electronics.


I rarely base my pick on previous won prices or history except when i find it difficult to make a guess. There are some particular days of the week when the auctions ''hots up'' and you see very high final prices. A look at the latest winners will assist you to know the trend of how prices have gone or would go.

Luck plays a very important role in the PTP and the amount of TCredits that you are willing to lose also matters. There are some times that you will go days or even weeks playing without a win, in the process losing hundreds of TCredits and there are days when you just have the right touch. But be comforted that even if you don't win, you get MRP, MRPs you can use to buy more TCredits.

Playing the PTP is one very good way to increase your loads of TCredits and also helps you know who the ''big dogs'' are and who to avoid especially when you want to play the auction yourself.

I advice that before you play the PTP, you purchase at least 100 TCredits pack with which you can start to build up on. I assure you, within a month and luck on your side, you should be able to accumulate close to 1,000 TCredit or more.

I hope that was helpful.
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Hello,

Pick The Price popularly called PTP is a contest in which the participants are required to correctly predict the final price of an auction or the closest to the final price if no exact picks are entered. Whenever an auction's final price is represented by more than one entry, the first entry received is deemed the winner.

Each win gives you a share of the daily Zackpot and a ''Hammer on the head'' gives you five shares of the daily Zackpot. For those who don't know, a
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