Thread: snipers

Apparently I've been out of the actual bidding game too long on ebay I don't remember snipers being this abundant. Or enraging lol. Twice in two days been outbid in the last 5 seconds. Dumb. My own fault though.

I think the only way to deal with that is to have a clear idea of the price you're willing to pay, bid that, then wait to see what happens. If you win it, great. If you get sniped, then it went over what you valued the item at, so let it go.

I know sometimes that's easier said than done.

Yep, don't expect to win it before the ending time!

OR, you could join the snipers and set yours for 3 seconds.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

I think the only way to deal with that is to have a clear idea of the price you're willing to pay, bid that, then wait to see what happens. If you win it, great. If you get sniped, then it went over what you valued the item at, so let it go.

I know sometimes that's easier said than done.

Yeah thats pretty much the conclusion I've came to. The annoying part is I look back and think, yeah I would have/ should have went higher.

It is IRRITATING, but legal.

I decided if I can't beat 'em, I'd join 'em. LOL

Only nice thing I can say about the sniping applications is that they'll drop the bid for you in your absence. I won a razor the other day, that finished while I was at work and wouldn't have been able to bid otherwise without throwing a big bid out and hoping for the best. Most of the time, I'll just watch and wait and pull the trigger myself.

The ones the irritate me are the ones that noodle their bids a couple of dollars at time until they find where you stopped and then they go a couple more dollars. LOL

Originally Posted by Wullie

It is IRRITATING, but legal.

I decided if I can't beat 'em, I'd join 'em. LOL

Only nice thing I can say about the sniping applications is that they'll drop the bid for you in your absence. I won a razor the other day, that finished while I was at work and wouldn't have been able to bid otherwise without throwing a big bid out and hoping for the best. Most of the time, I'll just watch and wait and pull the trigger myself.

The ones the irritate me are the ones that noodle their bids a couple of dollars at time until they find where you stopped and then they go a couple more dollars. LOL

Yep. It's that latter class of bidder that fully convinced me to only ever snipe. Ebay's default bidding system really does make sniping the single best strategy. Unless you really love the adrenalin hit of combat-auctions. Personally, I don't. It eats up way more brain than I'd like, and I'm much happier with automated snipes.

Basically, it saves me from myself. It's super easy for me to go 'hell, I should up my bid a LITTLE MORE.... OH NO, OUTBID! $45 was my max, but I can afford to go to $47!'. With the snipe I'm setting a hard ceiling on my own bidding more than anything else. (Unless it's something I desperately want and see that the bidding is getting close to my maximum).

There are other auction systems that specifically work around snipes -- IE, bidding is extended by 5 minutes after the last bid -- but eBay doesn't usually use those (it may not have the option, I don't know).

My big bitch is the ones that don't even try and make a bid, they just lay in the weeds and bite you on the butt from ambush without ever knowing they are interested.

Originally Posted by Wullie

It is IRRITATING, but legal.

I decided if I can't beat 'em, I'd join 'em. LOL

Only nice thing I can say about the sniping applications is that they'll drop the bid for you in your absence. I won a razor the other day, that finished while I was at work and wouldn't have been able to bid otherwise without throwing a big bid out and hoping for the best. Most of the time, I'll just watch and wait and pull the trigger myself.

The ones the irritate me are the ones that noodle their bids a couple of dollars at time until they find where you stopped and then they go a couple more dollars. LOL

Originally Posted by Eekspa

OR, you could join the snipers and set yours for 3 seconds.

You do not set them, they have their algorithms to do the sniping , the timing is not controllable.

Originally Posted by mainaman

You do not set them, they have their algorithms to do the sniping , the timing is not controllable.

The one I use is controllable, default is 5 sec. You can set it for 1 sec if you think your connection can handle it or 10 seconds, what ever you want it to do it'll fire it.