Snipe bids?

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2006
    Well, based on the results of the poll.....we shouldn't hear too many complaints on this forum about losing an item on E-bay due to a sniper..... ;)
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited February 2006
    AND, we have 2 over-sensitive morons amongst us.
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,413
    edited February 2006
    I bid in the last few seconds, being the woods and having flakey dial-up has cost me some items. I never bid early, I don'y understand why anyone bids early, unless you know you won't be around to bid at the end of the auction.

    I like to limit the other bidders re-thinking their max bid. If you out bid them early and they have time to think "well maybe I can go another 50.00" that's where I see early bidding costing you more for the item.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2006
    ED Z...
    RuSsMaN wrote:
    AND, we have 2 over-sensitive morons amongst us.
    Quit sugar coating it, Russ... Eff 'em... It doesn't matter how you lose, or win, an auction. Get over it.

    Appears there are enough of us who gloat and toast a good snipe to make up for them. however.
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited February 2006
    Sniper here, too. I've done the thing where I put in my max bid when i first see the auction and inevitibly, some jackass works it about halfway up to it two days before the auction is going to end then loses interest. The snipe will get you a somewhat lower price on a low-demand item- you just gotta know when to walk away.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited February 2006
    when it ends when im at home, ill snipe, otherwise, ill just put a max bid and hope. When I snipe I usually do so within 2 seconds of the end of the auction...no software, just a 5mb internet service:D
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