ebay snipers
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They aren't doing anything wrong, so no they shouldn't ban them. If you want the item that badly, either buy it now or sit there and snipe them back.
I used to hate them, until I started doing it myself. I sneaked into an auction for dragon quest viii and placed the highest bid with (literally) 7 seconds to go on it, and I won for $9. If that was anybody here that I beat out, I'm sorry.
A good way to tell if someone is keeping an eye on it to snipe is if an item is going for far less than it usually does, even though the item has been out for a little while.
A good way to tell if someone is keeping an eye on it to snipe is if an item is going for far less than it usually does, even though the item has been out for a little while.
Well, I've never bought anything off of Ebay through bidding. Only 'Buy It Now'
Too bad for you I guess. By the way, what item were you bidding for that caused you such grief?
Too bad for you I guess. By the way, what item were you bidding for that caused you such grief?
Yeah, it wasn't something I had thought about before I was going to bid but there was an NFL Jersey that I really wanted for a decent price so I just readied my bid and waited til there was around 20 seconds left and hit send.MelziGurl said:
I don't think there's anything wrong with bidding like that personally, although I can see how it could annoy someone who had been leading the bids for a few days only to be beaten right as it was about to close.
Are you sure that it is a sniper and not that the person before you made a bid higher than yours? The current bid is not the highest bid, it is the minimum amount that beats the second highest bid plus a small increment,webbo619 said:
e.g.
if the highest bid on the item is $30 and you were to then bid $35, the current bid will now change to $31. If someone else were to join in now and bid $32, you will instantly outbid them so that the current bid will still be yours but at the increased price of $33.
they shouldn't be banned, it is part of the bidding thing. Once someone called me some bad things in an email for out bidding him on something, i wasn't snipping or anything. And I will never forgive that fucker that sniped me at the last second on that Kikaider action figure.
All it means is that someone had a higher final bid than you, so they automatically got it. Ebay scales bids automatically up to a maximum.webbo619 said:
Besides, you are trying to do exactly what you are complaining about. Just a little hypocritical don't you think?
Don't tell people to start camping, try rushing! If you up the bid so it looks higher than similar items, but it's low enough that when people snipe the overall sales price won't be effected. If that makes sense...megapenguinx said: