[78-L] Sniping

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat May 16 09:05:52 PDT 2009


I'm not sure I understand what Ken is saying. If you enter a snipe bid, you can 
keep checking the item to see if there have been bids that will knock you out 
of the running (which, if they're snipes, won't be visible), but eSnipe also 
advises you when your bid has been topped unless you bid within the last 90 
minutes or so of the auction. The time on your computer clock has nothing to do 
with it.

I like eSnipe because it's sneaky. Period. If I put an open bid on an item I 
want, it's visible to everyone and I stand a better chance of losing it.

dl

Ken Matheson wrote:
>     Sniping does not affect me when I bid on Evay. Bidding on an item and having someone keep raising you is the reason people snipe. An item will not have any bids until I bid, then it is bid, bid, bid. The bad part of sniping is, if you do it correctly, you have only one chance. The computer clock is not good enough for sniping, it takes high speed internet, and a GPS, or atomic clock. My bad memory causes me to lose out on many items I would like to have. I have to set up an alarm clock to remind me to bid. It does no good to have an auto bidding service if you are to cheap to bid a reasonable amount on a hot item. Although days before hand, I have bid an unreasonable low amount on items I did not care if I bought or not, and won. 
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