Thread: Mythical, more powerful sniping service?

We are all guessing here what's going on. Why not ask ebay customer services?

Originally Posted by Kees

We are all guessing here what's going on. Why not ask ebay customer services?

Yea, I'm going to try to find the right person to ask. Thanks again!

This is why I bid my max early and forget it. To much insanity involved at the last second. If someone whats it more than I do fine. It will probably be up again next week...

Not a fan of ebite snipers...

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

This is why I bid my max early and forget it. To much insanity involved at the last second. If someone whats it more than I do fine. It will probably be up again next week...

Not a fan of ebite snipers...

Same here. I'll put a low bid so I can track it by email and keep up with the auction, then if I think I can get it for a good price I'll bid a good amount before all the sniping. So far I doubt it's cost me very much money.

Originally Posted by burns420

Same here. I'll put a low bid so I can track it by email and keep up with the auction, then if I think I can get it for a good price I'll bid a good amount before all the sniping. So far I doubt it's cost me very much money.

TBH I don't see much difference between a sniping program and doing it by hand this way. Except you're making more work for yourself by having to go enter your max bid manually, and also that you're likely much earlier than a sniping program would do it.

I suppose one advantage is that your max is entered before the snipers so if they are equal you will win for being first. Still, even then you could configure a sniping program to enter your bid much sooner than they normally would if you wanted that advantage and you wouldn't have to go do it yourself.

Personally I think Ebay should just do away with sniping entirely by running auctions like real auctions. So long as bids are still coming in the auction doesn't time out. Every time a new bid comes in the time gets extended until everyone's had a chance to counter. Then sellers would get the true market value of their wares and the person most willing to pay the most for the item would always get it.

Many of the firearm auction sites II watch have the 15 second rule after the close,

I like the snipe software because it lets me bid on US auctions that seem to close at 2 or 3am UK time. Saves me from sitting up till late!

I just set the snipe with my max bid amount, stick the item in my watch list and forget about it. That way I dont get drawn into a bidding war at the last minute, and I dont give everyone else hours to outbid me.