Thanks Tom
I'm glad I posted this thread. I had no idea that there are software packages
that would do snipe automatically.
Ebay has to have to have some financial benefit to THEM to allow this nonsense,
otherwise they wouldn't allow it. Seems to me it would be more profitable for
them to just allow the auction to continue until the bidding stops.
--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Wed, 3/17/10, starsinthed...@aol.com <starsinthed...@aol.com> wrote:
> From: starsinthed...@aol.com <starsinthed...@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Sniper Mentality
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 5:48 PM
> Hi Richard and List, I agree
> with your solution but not your objection to
> sniping within the framework that is eBay.
>
> Ebay has set up a situation where it is the smart thing
> to do. As you
> suggest, if no item will officially end within even just
> one minute from the
> time the last bid was placed, this would end the advantage
> of sniping.
>
> I personally use a sniping service so when I see an item I
> want, I set up
> the snipe bid that will be executed a few seconds before
> auction end. This
> set up can be taken care of days before the auction
> ends.
>
> I have saved many hundreds of dollars, mostly on
> microscope equipment.
>
> It's not nice or fair but it is the way eBay is set up, so
> why not play to
> win.
>
> Tom
>
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