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everyone should know that theres no such thing as "sniping" on ebay.
its called there was a guy who was willing to pay more than you so stop your bitching you little cry baby and go home to your momma!
if you bid the highest amount you were willing to pay and lose, then you have no reason to whine about it. how is it anyones fault that someone else was willing to pay more than you?
if you knew how the auctions worked, you'd realize that the item doesn't go to who "snipes" it, instead it goes to the guy whos willing to pay the most, afterall this is why they call it an auction.
sniping is the cry of whiners when lose because someone else out there is willing to pay more, get over it.
i disagree with you. i've never lost an auction using EZ snipe. To win auctions, and save money - Sniping blocks competitive bids, except by proxy. It prevents other bidders from discovering your proxy bid. It keeps your interest in an item private. It protects you from being shilled.
so what happens if both you and i are using EZ snipe, who wins then? i'd say the guy who's willing to pay more every single time....especially since services like EZ snipe ask you whats the most you're willing to pay. if you say you'll pay $100 and i say i'll pay $150, who going to get the item?
EZ snipe doesn't block competitive bids, it doesn't do anything but bid the next bid increment on the auction. and it only does so until it reaches the highest dollar amount you set. so it doesn't matter if you're using a sniping service, whether its at the beginning of the auction or 5 seconds to go in the auction, whoever bids the highest amount wins.
heres a hypothetical situation where both you and i are bidding on same item.
we'll say you use EZ snipe and me, i'm just bid the highest amount with 5 seconds to go in the auction.
the auction price of a old school board is $100.
you use EZ snipe and you tell them the most you're willing to pay for the board is $200.
so with seconds to go, i bid $5000.
so who wins?
of course i win because i bidded the highest amount right?
now you're going to say that i paid $5000 for a board but i only paid the next bid increment.
lets say you had the 2nd highest bid of $200, i only pay $200 plus the next bid increment which in this example would be $2.50 which means i pay $202.50 for the board. i don't pay anything near $5000 unless someone out there bidded $4900, then i'm shit out of luck and paying $4900 + the next bid increment.
that all said,
the best way to win is to bid the maximum amount you're willing to pay for said item at the very last seconds of the auction.
if you get outbidded then, then its obvious that someone out there wanted it more and was willing to pay more, hence why they win.
you can use EZ snipe(if you're not going to be around for the EOA is the only time i'd use a service like that) but again, if someone is willing to pay more than your maximum, they're going to win and you're going to lose.
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