Pretty much 90% of all my auction wins are from sniping. I'm in total agreement with Kup in saying that to have a better chance of winning you have to snipe.
However, i don't live by my computer counting down the seconds, i use a snipe tool.
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Pretty much 90% of all my auction wins are from sniping. I'm in total agreement with Kup in saying that to have a better chance of winning you have to snipe.
However, i don't live by my computer counting down the seconds, i use a snipe tool.
Last edited by sideswipes brother; 24th January 2010 at 03:47 PM.
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Which is where it becomes annoying for those of us who do count down the seconds (and to my knowledge was against ebay termsOriginally Posted by sideswipes brother
However, i don't live by my computer counting down the seconds, i use a snipe tool.)
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Aparently not, though I couldn't find out difinitive information on the matter and eBay doesn't even touch on the subject of using snipe tools.(and to my knowledge was against ebay terms
It only refers to sniping in the tense of someone sitting at the PC hitting bid at 2 seconds.
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If "90% of" your auction wins are from sniping and "to win you have to snipe", what happens the other ten percent of the time then?
I have no problem with people believing sniping helps them, but it's just not true that you have to snipe to win.
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No, you don't have to snipe to win but you do if you want to win most of the time
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All this talk about sniping reminds me of this pic (or one similar to it) that TheDirtyDigger once posted.
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Actually that's not a bad metaphor. A Seagull needs to be there the moment the chip is tossed in order to increase his chances of catching it. If he waits from a distance until the chip hits the ground and then walk over to it, chances are that some other seagull is going to get to it before he does.All this talk about sniping reminds me of this pic (or one similar to it) that TheDirtyDigger once posted.
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So on Sunday 10 January I woke to discover that after a heap of rain overnight, the phoneline was dead.
Only today did they get it fixed.
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You know what i mean. Lets not get too techincal people!!
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I tried playing it like Sky Shadow mentioned by bidding early with a generous maximum bid on two items - To see how it goes as an experiment.
A couple of hours later some guy came in and kept bidding to figure out my maximum bid and it stopped at $1 above my bid :/
Now I am aiming for the bin prices since its not that far different from the current bids.
Something tells me that if I had left it alone and not offered my Maximum early, the auctions would have been left static as it has been for the last couple of days and I would of had a greater chance at winning the items at a much lower price since the guy would of not have enough time to figure out my maximum bid in the last 15 seconds.
It had been a long time since I bidded without sniping and as far as my Ebay experience is concerned, sniping seems like the more optimal way of winning an auction.
Last edited by kup; 26th January 2010 at 09:14 PM.
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