Bid Snipers

[clutchcrutch]

Anyone know much about this...lately i have been putting in fairly gererous bids on cards only to be outbid at the last second...I asked a coworker about it because he is an ebay junkie and he said its probabally bid sniping...is this the new thing? should I be using them? Whats a good one? Is there any way to combat them? LMK

[hepcat]

It's not new by any means...been aound quite awhile now. There are a few free ones out there...I don't recall the one I once used, bt you could enter like 3 auctions/wk you wanted to send last second bids on and it would bid for you. Really useful if you're not around at the end time. Wanna say AuctionSnipe or Snipe something or other....Google will help.

It sucks looking at past auctions and seeing where I lost by a buck or two at the last second, but I bid my max and someone else just wanted it more....c'est la vie.

[saindon420]

I do it alot... If your gonna be online when the auction ends dont even bother bidding til the final seconds

[clutchcrutch]

whats a good one to use?

[jdoldschool]

whats a good one to use?

I just do it manually, no program needed. I open two screens with the auction. I put in whatever my bid is in one of them, hit the submit button on the first screen but NOT the button on the confirm screen. This is so I only have to hit one button later. With the second screen I refresh the page until it gets down to around 10 seconds. Obviously the fewer the seconds the better, but if you wait too long you risk not getting the bid in in time.

I'm not sure, but I think using a program to snipe might be against the rules. Doing it manually isn't though, as far as I know.

[herdyrules]

Bid sniping should be illegal on Ebay

[saindon420]

i do it without a program too. I just dont bid til the final seconds

[OnePimpTiger]

I do it manually as well, hadn't heard of programs that do it for you until now. I understand getting mad when someone outbids you by $.50 in the last seconds, it makes me mad when it happens....but that's the game. I don't understand why people bid something up w/4-6 days left...you're just raising the price you pay. If you didn't bid it up early, you could wait until the end and get a much better deal on it. It's common sense...

[bearfield]

if you lost an auction by $.50 or $1.00, they could have bid $5.00 or $50.00 more, just the next higher amount to win the card registers, so you might not have lost the auction by the $.50 you thought you did. the other bidder just outbid you, how much doesn't matter, just $.50 higher showed up, so don't fret about it, it was probably more.

[cardsfromdandd]

That is true there have been a couple cards I won on ebay but my max bid was 10.00 more than I paid for so the person may have thought they got out bid by 1.00 but really they would have had to pay 11.00 to get the item.