posted on February 3, 2001 10:23:36 AM new
Until last night I was doing it for myself. I would open a browser with the item in it, another browser in which I would sign in, then place my bid and leave that browser on the "place bid" page. I'd have a 3rd browser open to do other online things in. I would keep reloading the page with the auction on it until there was about 30 seconds left...and then on the browser that had the "place bid" on it I would click the bid button and usually with about 10 seconds left I would win the auction. The only time I ever lost an auction I sniped was when my server went down a few minutes before the auction ended. Other than that I won every auction I sniped.
Then I discovered that vrane.com had a sniping tool after someone on this board mentioned it. I used it, twice, last night and happily won both auctions with a lot less stress
