sniping -- love it or hate it?
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But, good to know, thanks for the heads up! 
i wouldn't pay for that service...i usually check the time and see if i will be around to bid at the last min if not i put in my max bid if i win great if not oh well
i love sniping myself, but when other people do it and i lose to them...not so much.
but as a seller without any bids on my items, i often do get worried until the last minute sniping begins!
but as a seller without any bids on my items, i often do get worried until the last minute sniping begins!
ebay is starting to do their own too...personally i hate it...i prefer the good ole fashioned bidding war, somehow i feel cheated when folks use those sniping services...
I agree lol.
But my last great win was my LV Monogram Shine Porte Monnaie for only $76! That made me so happy haha.
It's a service you can use that will put in a bid for you at the last few seconds of the auction.
It's nice for buyers so you can get the items for a lower price (sometimes) but for sellers, it can get annoying because being the cheapskates they are (some, not all), bidders WANT to keep the prices low.
It's annoying sometimes, I want to keep my starting prices low to increase interest, then I get only one bidder and have to sell the item for a ridiculously low price. If I had anything designer though I'd definitely be using the reserve option.
^You're welcome! It usually doesn't work out for me but a couple of times I've been lucky.
I just www.justsnipe.com on a recommendation from Swankymama (I'm pretty sure it was her anyway hehe). It's nice because I don't snipe all the time and they give you a few credits...then they're refreshed every Friday so I've never had to pay for the service.
I just www.justsnipe.com on a recommendation from Swankymama (I'm pretty sure it was her anyway hehe). It's nice because I don't snipe all the time and they give you a few credits...then they're refreshed every Friday so I've never had to pay for the service.
I LOVE snipping!!! Back when I was trying to restore my Fenton glass collection from a housefire lots of pieces I wanted were hard to find collector's type. I kept on getting outbid. Then when I had my Gymboree phase with my daughter it was awful. Then I found my sniper and LOVE it. It prevents my competitive nature from coming out and getting into a bidding war and paying wayyyy too much for something. Getting outbid ticks me off and I get too competitive. Snipping has acutally saved me money because I just don't do that anymore. I see something I want, put it on my watch list, enter it into the snipper with the max amount I will pay and forget about it. I used to use auction sniper too, but with how much I buy it was too expensive. I use bidnapper now and love it, I have better wining results with it too.
I do manual sniping the old fashioned way on a dial-up connection to boot. My proudest snipe was getting in my bid at 0 min and 0 sec of auction end this way. 
For me it's the only way to put in your real maximum and still have a good chance of walking away satisfied even if you don't win. I also stalk my competitors who have already bid to see if they snipe as well. 
I love it when the increments go up $5 per bid but by sniping, I win by just $1 over the last bidder - I could hear my competition screaming.
Do sniping programs bid within 1 sec to spare?
For me it's the only way to put in your real maximum and still have a good chance of walking away satisfied even if you don't win. I also stalk my competitors who have already bid to see if they snipe as well. I love it when the increments go up $5 per bid but by sniping, I win by just $1 over the last bidder - I could hear my competition screaming.
Do sniping programs bid within 1 sec to spare?
Petite_Chic you must have a better dial-up connection than I do. The only way I can win an auction anymore is to use a sniping service. Love to snipe as a Buyer but it is nerve wracking as a Seller!
