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    Senior Member Pyment's Avatar
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    I think at that point (over $40) the intervals are $1. So, if his bid was more than a dollar over mine, it should have gone a full dollar over my highest bid.

    When you lose by less than the current interval is the only time you can tell what the other guy's max was.

    In fact, on one occasion, my snipe was less than a full interval more than the winning bid. Because the winning bid was made earlier than my snipe, even though my snipe was higher than the eventual winner, it was not accepted.

    I sniped $20.10 and the winning bid was $20.

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    Lol, I remember when ebay didn't have the whole proxy bid thing at all. What you bid was what you bid , those were the good ol days

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    Well you can always set your snipe to around $1,000 to know you'll not be outbid. But - we've all seen a few auctions where that Filly or Duck sold for $1100 and we scratched our heads. I'll just bet that the underlying reason was the 2 guys felt like $1K was a safe snipe price (too high for anyone else to bid to) - until that second guy comes along with the same idea. I sometimes snipe but will only snipe to what I'm rally willing to pay. But I REALLY hate it when I've bid just a tad high to make sure I win the auction, and then someone comes in with 10 seconds to go and slides $1 over my high price - hate that!!!

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