Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
You have to snipe on Ebay or you loose. It's a dirty practice but its mandatory if you want to compete.

It's basically a game of poker, by bidding early you are simply giving away your hand so you have to bluff them until the last minute where you drop your bomb. It's horrible but the ebay system allows it and you can't win without it.
Kup, that's not right - I've won heaps of auctions on eBay at decent prices by bidding early and just leaving it. Looking at my bid history, I've won three items in total on eBay this past month - one by bidding 2 days 23 hours before the end, another 1d 23h and the other 7 hours before the end.

There would be nothing worse than living my life around the end of an auction just so I can snipe a toy. Life's too short.