sanmar
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posted on June 27, 2003 05:26:55 PM new
Can someone please explain to me how do you snipe? I don't buy very often on ebay, but there was some software I was interested in that went off today. I had quit at $75.01 as that was much that I would pay. Well, the auction ended at $105+ on a bid that came in 6 seconds before close of the auction. Tell me how do they do that?
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ewora
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posted on June 27, 2003 05:53:41 PM new
http://www.auctionblitz.com/
[ edited by ewora on Jun 27, 2003 05:54 PM ]
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Twelvepole
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posted on June 27, 2003 05:54:05 PM new
There are a number of ways, I have my computer clock sync'd with eBay time and just have two windows open, one with bidding page, other with the auction,
On the bidding page I place an amount I am willing to pay and then on the other page I just keep refreshing and watching until it is down to seconds and then on the bidding page, I just hit submit...
I have gotten in under 2 seconds before and I have heard of several people getting it in at the 0 mark...
Of course it can cause you to miss an auction also... becuase the servers can only process so fast...
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
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noh2
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posted on June 27, 2003 06:03:55 PM new
just sit and wait until last minute and go a little higher than you are willing to pay.say high bid is 75,and you are willing to pay 100,place a last minute bid of 111.
It is called last minute stampeding!! try it
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lindajean
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posted on June 27, 2003 06:10:43 PM new
I use Isnipeit.
You set the time to how many seconds in advance you want to bid. I had it set at 15 seconds so I wouldn't miss any if ebay is running slow, but i kept getting outbid. I now have it set for 3 seconds and have been much more successful.
When I find something I want, I just enter the amount I am willing to pay into the program and forget it. Then, it will bid or will pass if the winning bid is already higher than my max.
It has won me several auctions for hundreds less than I would have bid and it has saved me hundreds in no longer getting foolishly drawn into bidding wars.
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jnash
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posted on June 27, 2003 06:44:25 PM new
I don't snipe. I just bid my top dollar figure for whatever I'm bidding on.
If I win fine. If I win for less than my top dollar amount great. If I lose?
That's fine, too. I wouldn't bid more than my top dollar figure anyway.
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REAMOND
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posted on June 27, 2003 06:53:31 PM new
esnipe.com works for me.
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AuctionAce
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posted on June 27, 2003 07:53:00 PM new
There is a slight risk with a sniping program as opposed to a proxy bid. The sniping program may have problems at a critical time and you may not get your bid in. The same with last minute manual sniping, ebay may have a problem and you lose out. That was much more common 4 or 5 years ago than today but it is still possible.
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REAMOND
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posted on June 27, 2003 08:15:07 PM new
Not to get too far off topic- but esnipe now has a feature that allows you to bundle auctions and as soon as you win one of the auctions it automatically cancels the remaining snipe orders.
I used it today and had 5 auctions of a similar item all ending within 5 hours of each other. I won the first auction and the program automatically canceled the remaining 4 auctions.
Its a great feature for going after similar items that you only want one of.
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sanmar
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posted on June 27, 2003 08:25:12 PM new
I have said it before & repeat that this a great place to get answers. I have tried to be helpful in the past & have been served well whenever I have asked for help. Thank you all.
[ edited by sanmar on Jun 27, 2003 08:26 PM ]
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RetroBargains
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posted on June 27, 2003 09:20:18 PM new
Let me add that as a seller, I really dislike sniping...because I don't get to see the bid amount climb...BUT as a buyer... now that's a whole different world.
I use www.esnipe.com and I also use their Group Bid (the bundled bids as explained REAMOND above. Tis the only way to shop - I have a large success rate but have only lost because someone else bid higher with either a sniping program or a proxy bid. Higher than what my high bid was set at.
"Sniping... upsets you when someone has outbid your manual bid... but when you start using it yourself you just gotta love it!"
Greg
Greg Williams
Retro Bargains
www.retrobargains.com
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stonecold613
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posted on June 27, 2003 09:42:28 PM new
As a seller, I love sniping. The higher the bid, the more money I make.
As a bidder, also like it. Auctionloser wrote to simply place a proxy bid. My problem with that is there are too many sellers that bid on their own items hoping to raise the price. I would rather bid the minimum and watch it. Then if it looks like the seller under a different ID is bidding the item up, I don't bid any more. I like to place the bid at the last minute. If I don't win it because of that, then so be it. But if I do, then I know I have paid the lowest possible price on that item. It is kind of a safety valve for me.
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Roadsmith
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posted on June 27, 2003 09:48:20 PM new
I'm with Twelvepole on this. I do exactly what he?she? does. Boy, does the adrenaline start rushing that last minute. But as someone here has said, every once in a while that last-second bid is too slow to get in under the wire. I hate it when that happens!
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AuctionAce
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posted on June 27, 2003 10:35:13 PM new
When I was a rookie seller four and a half years ago I hated snipers because there were so many rookie buyers that would have probably bid higher given the chance. Most of the buyers now are much more wiser and they know they can always defeat a sniper by bidding with their maximum proxy. The snipers only defeat the foolish or the ones they outbid proxy-wise.
I really hate hearing from the crybaby bidders that curse the snipers. After the auction they will email me and say a sniper beat them at the bell and I have to email them back that they should have placed their maximum bid in the proxy and lived with the results. Live and learn and don't get fooled again.
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sparkz
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posted on June 27, 2003 10:57:20 PM new
>>As a seller, I love sniping. The higher the bid, the more money I make.>> = The bottom line.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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AuctionAce
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posted on June 27, 2003 11:12:56 PM new
>>As a seller, I love sniping. The higher the bid, the more money I make.>> = The bottom line.
That's very true but years ago on ebay sniping was much hated because the snipers did not engage in bidding wars and many bidders that would have paid much more than their non-proxy bid lost out. Sniping cost sellers a lot of money in the old days on ebay.
Almost everyone now knows that you must bid the most your willing to spend or lose out to a sniper.
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