Going to one (and bidding) for the first time tomorrow.

Any tips, must dos/do nots etc.

Looking forward to it – it will blow Ebay-Fever out of the water quite spectacularly.

🙂

Do not get drawn into a bidding war and pay more than you wanted to. Good luck.

Will have 10% of my best offer as a Banker's draft in my pocket and my father in law on hand with another cheeky £10k as a gift if we feel we are almost there with our bid. So basically I know what I will pay and we won't go over it.

(gulps)

make sure you can see who your bidding against (ie make sure they actually exist and are not just a wall). I was told that the person selling the house can bid on the auction too!! Not sure if this was a wind-up though.

stand at the back of the room, with a view of the whole room.

set a limit – stick with it – in theory

i've bought three places at auction, the first one i was bidding against a ghost

don't jump in too early

next ones I was more clued up – good luck

Blimey that was exciting! I didn't win the auction – the price went way over our maximum in the end. I did get to put a bid in though when bidding had appeared to stall around our maximum – my heart was pounding sooo hard.

Definitely going to go again next month – just to watch. It felt like Ebay on Speed. Grrrrrr!!!!!!