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lilshawn:
i'm just saying, setting a maximum bid allowance for an item renders all of it moot anyways.

If you MUST HAVE something and want it for the cheapest price possible, whatever the cost may be, sniping is the thing for you. put in $9999 and get it for whatever it costs. 100% guaranteed win, even against other auto bid people.

if you have a maximum money limit to spend like grasshopper says he does with his wanted auctions, just go into the auction with 1 minute to go and setup an automatic bid at the limit you are willing to spend and that will proxy your bids at whoever else's auto bid max may be, +1 bid. trying to snipe it in this case make zero sense, and makes zero difference here. you will either know you've lost it right away and it will go for more than you are wiling to spend, which won't matter since you won't spend more than that... or you will win it cause its at your limit or less.

sniping works, yes, but not in the way grasshopper wants to use it. the built-in autobid would work perfectly fine for him.

Do what you want, but all things considered... you don't particularly need any software to do what you want to do.

RandyT:
Grasshopper, at least from his later posts, seems to be focusing on not wanting other bidders to be able to raise their bids in reaction to his, which is exactly the purpose of sniping with only a few seconds left in an auction. If you put the max bid on ebay, it displays it in real-time as others are trying to outbid you, giving them a higher chance of succeeding in that effort and inflating prices overall.

Sounds to me like he knows what he is after :)

lilshawn:

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this is why you go in and set it up with a minute left. nobody will have time to raise their proxy bid amount before it closes... and if they do, it was sniper vs sniper and chances are you wouldn't get it anyways since whoever had the lowest ping to ebay would win in that case.

either you really really want it and you'll pay ANY price, or you play the game and try to get a good deal. you can't do both with any efficiency. sniper or not.

this is precisely why i almost exclusively "buy it now". i want it, i want it now. i'll pay for it. if it's too high, i'll buy somewhere else or make an offer. if you won't take my offer, i'll go someplace else. if he would have rejected your offer, even if you bid in the auction, chances are good he would have a minimum price setup and you wouldn't get it anyway for any kind of deal. these are the sellers who are trying to sell something for more than it's worth.

RandyT:
:)

A minute is a HUGE amount of time to raise a proxy bid. I've outbid others with only 5 seconds left on the clock. If I did it with 10, I'd likely have lost the item.

But yeah, I tend to use the "Buy It Now" filter more nowadays. Half the time, I can buy something outright for less than an auction went to on the same or similar item, or the savings is so minuscule, it's not worth the bother of the auction.

Ebay has become a shadow of it's former self. It has more in common with AliExpress and now Amazon, than it does with the Ebay of old. But there are a dozen reasons for this, which probably aren't related to this thread.

pbj:
AliExpress... man, I had a really good track record with them for years until recently. One item, the seller wouldn't ship my item unless I gave him more money after the sale. I refused. He gave them a bogus tracking number for an item to a different state and AliExpress refused to refund it.

Other item never showed up, he gave an invalid tracking number. Same BS. No refund.

Credit card company zapped those charges immediately but dang. Go in there prepared to fight, I guess.

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