IMHO, what the sniping software does is eliminate the guy with a feedback score of 2 sitting at his computer and upping the bid by a dollar at a time until he maxes out your bid -

what I do is put a ridiculously low bid in to keep junior happy, and use Gixen.com to snipe my real world bid - if it goes for more than that, well, then I didn't want it - if someone else snipes higher than me, then it will show that they beat my bid by $1, but they might have put in a much hgher snipe bid, and eBay just outbid me by the minimum bid increment....it doesn't matter....I put my maximum in...any thing more, and I'm not interested.

...but it does give me the opportunity to occasionally pick up some deals for a dollar more than junior bid, which was a dollar more than my first, ridiculously low bid.

I like the automatic sniping software- high bidder gets it - and it gets you away from the emotional/auction bidding syndrome

YMMV - and probably will!

-whatever

-Lou