Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye5 View Post
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But here is the kicker for me. Take these two Grim Reapers that recently were sold on eBay. If you bid on one with a high max bid, and a nicer one shows up before the first auction is over, you may end up doing what the high bidder on the first auction did and withdraw your $500+ bid, crashing the price to $200 something and go bid on the second. With a sniping program all you have to do is cancel the snipe. No harm, no foul, no mistakes, and no mess such as was created with the Reapers.
I was under the impression that a bid could not be retracted except for certain circumstances, not just because someone changes their mind about a bid.