eBay for clubs

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It’s seems the bids come in late.

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Sniping. Very common practice on eBay. Don't give anyone else a chance to place a winning bid. Honestly, there is no sense on bidding on an item prior to the 10-15 seconds unless its at a time where you can't be looking at the auction...all it does is raise the prices. You have to wait until the last 10 seconds (or later) to place a bid that you are comfortable with.

They have (or used to at least) have sniping apps/add-ons that would place a bid at the last second for you. Sellers can certainly have another account or have a friend bid to raise the price too but they could always just put the reserve price in or have the opening bid be the lowest they would accept.

put your max bid and it will auto bid for you

Try 2nd Swing

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Do it with about 8 seconds left on the auction for best results. This is how I beat the snipers.

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Yep. Don't wait till the last second to up your bid. Like you say, 5-10 seconds left, put your max bid and let eBay do the work for you. Or do it early on but you potentially run the price up higher by running the bid up early. Still can work out sometimes though.

I buy on eBay a lot, just never golf clubs. Bought a $800 set 8-9 years ago, played with them for a year and they were the most inconsistent/unpredictable irons ever. Went to trade them in and was told they were fake. Bought them from a seller with over 10k sales in golf equipment. Fool me once.