Bid sniping?

[poweezy101]

I've heard of this bid sniping and believe ive been a victim to one of these. Is this reortable? As I dont think that this is a fair thing

[*bad*angel*]

Of course it bid exactly $1 more than you did, there are bid increments which eBay sets at different levels for different $ values. So if someone bids against you and beats you then their bid will always be only one set increment above yours that you can see, even if they bid much much more. For example, if the price as $20 but you had placed a proxy bid for $30 then someone came along and bid $40 they would win for $31 because ebay would only take enough of their proxy as was required to outbid you.

[*bad*angel*]

How could it possibly be cheating? If you wanted to pay more then bid more. It's not the last bid which wins, it's the highest. If it was cheating eBay would not allow it. Almost all experienced bidders snipe at the end. I personally snipe at 3 seconds which gives me one shot only to place my bid. If i lose i lose, I certainly dont whinge that someone cheated.

[shypansy]

Why is it cheating? As a seller there is nothing more satisfying than to see those bids jump in the closing moments of an auction, ow could you object to getting more for your item? As a buyer, I agree with above, great fun taking your chances in the hope your final bid wins the item. In my opinion its the only way to go for real ebay fun, much more so than boring buy it now listings.

[colkym]

Sniping is a smart and fun way to bid, and since the same opportunity is also available to you, I fail to see how it can be called unfair. Educate yourself on how sniping works and that chances are you will find it fun too. No it is not reportable, as it does not contravene any ebay policy A an aside, why is it the new ebayers always think the worst of anything that they do not understand?

[spider_xo]

Yeah, sniping is really a fun way for buying stuffs on Ebay. I have won a few auctions by sniping and the differences in $ for bids I put in compared to the next highest bids were usually $0.01. Just won an auction for a mobile phone 3 days ago by sniping. OP may wonder how it is done? Here is how, usually by guessing how much the highest bid may be during the last few seconds of an auction ending, I just put in a bid of $0.01 more, then the auction ends and no one else would have time to do anything after that. If it turns out my guessing is right I would win the auction, otherwise I would lose, there is no certainty that I would win every time. For a few items I bid and won with $0.01 differences, that was because my guessing was somehow correct. So the process of sniping and winning an auction is more based on your luck and experience rather than cheating because you really haven't got a clue of what the next highest bid is in order to put a higher bid before an auction ends. So, there is no cheating and can't complain.