What snipe services do you use?

[LHG39]

Re: What snipe services do you use?

I don't use any, as I find sniping to be gutless.

I fully expect to be beat up on this one!

Ken

Call it what you will, but as others have said, until eBay changes their rules and makes their auctions like MLB.com and others by automatically extending auctions, sniping is the only smart way to go. I cannot tell you how many items I have lost to snipes, but I have won just as many. The less time you give someone to consider whether to bid higher, the better.

[trsent]

Re: What snipe services do you use?

I just think he wants it known that his life is much more "eventful" than others less fortunate.

Get over it, I was not picking on anyone. I was replying to a thread that the original question was never answered. The guy was looking for a snipe service, he didn't ask if you like to wait until the last second to bid yourself.

[TNTtoys]

Re: What snipe services do you use?

The downside to the 2 bid strategy is that eBay will show exactly where a new bidder stands in relation to your 2 bids. If the second bidder wants to find out how high you are willing to go he can continue to place bids until between your first and second bid without any concern about actually becoming the high bidder. As a result, they can force you to pay more without taking any risk.

Most of the time I play the 2-bid strategy, it's just a bluff to make the novice think I am serious, when in fact I'm not. My bids are often so close together that the only way the bidder can find out how high I am willing to go, they become the high bidder themselves (unless they play the standard increment) -- my experience is that this just doesn't happen. If the bidder is inexperienced, and they don't become high bidder for $100, they will not try $102.50 -- they will try something more like $120 ior $125. If this is a more experienced buyer, they will not want to play the standard increment because this could possibly take MANY bids to find out the 2nd bid -- these bids mount (you're familiar with highlighted items, right?), and so does the price (if you're experienced, you don't want to be the one to drive the price up way before it ends).

[Vintagedeputy]

Re: What snipe services do you use?

Wow, there was some thread-jacking going on there. I'm not even sure what my original question was anymore!

[TNTtoys]

Re: What snipe services do you use?

Wow, there was some thread-jacking going on there. I'm not even sure what my original question was anymore!

Guilty as charged!