[78-L] Sniping

[Jack Palmer]

    I never tried sniping.  I bid as much as I think the record is worth to 
me and let them snipe away.  If they outbid me, I wouldn't have bid that 
high anyway so it works out OK.  Surprisingly I win 8 out of 10 items I bid 
on.
                                                                Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Sniping


> 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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