Sniping

[negomi2006]

Hey all, I used to post here a fair bit but haven't for a while....

is Just Snipe still a good free sniper program to use & does your password have to be the same as your ebay password???

Thanks in advance guys 🙂

[papermoon.lady]

Yes, besides I remembered that in the last few seconds when you are the highest bidder there is also a button that says you can still increase your maximum bid, so yes, there is nothing against consecutive bids.

[papermoon.lady]

By the way, do sellers know how high maximum bids are or do they only see the actual bids?

[sparkes9669]

They only see the max bid price. Other wise shill bidding would be a breeze. " oh look they have a max of 99. I will get my other unidentified or linked account to bid 98" .

A true sniper only fires one shot. They only reason to have two shots is if they want to kill the BIN and they are 1st bidder. Then they bid their best price they will pay as close as possible to the end of the auction.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you get the newb in here crying about how the price jumped in the last second of the Auction. Both make me smile. B-)

[papermoon.lady]

Oh yes, of course... I had forgotten shill bidding. ]:)

[lyndal1838]

The price jump at the end of the auction is not shill bidding....it is snipe bidding.

Mariq, you really need to understand ebay and how it works before trying to post here.

[lane-ends]

If a buyer has a bid on the item and it is the only bid, then leaves a high proxy as security, this is not a good idea. The reason being that a seller can tell there is a proxy bid higher than the existing, as it will show as two bids, they wont know what it is, but they know if they are unscrupulous that they could throw in a schill bid and it will push the second proxy up. Also announces to other bidders there is a proxy.

This hold only when the bidder is the only current bidder.

Better to have one only bid. Unless it is deliberatey placed to eliminate a BIN option.

[papermoon.lady]

I know that the price jump is not shill bidding.

I was referring to this post (which was an answer to my question whether the sellers see maximum bids or not):

They only see the max bid price. Other wise shill bidding would be a breeze. " oh look they have a max of 99. I will get my other unidentified or linked account to bid 98" .

[papermoon.lady]

To be quite honest, I think it was quite clear which post I was referring to.

[peterz33]

Sniping destroys the auction system.  Allowing sniping in the last few seconds simply gives the fastest sniping software an unfair advantage. It also disadvantages manual bidders and the sellers who could have gained a better price.

Ebay should change the rules, or at least give sellers more choices in how their auction should be conducted. 

The best way to make auctions fair again is to extend the auction deadline by say five minutes each time a bid is placed within five minutes of the end time.  In this way, manual bidders can remain in the contest. Sellers should be able to see bidding remain live until they have received the best price from all bidders in an open contest.

[davewil1964]

Wrong. That has already been thrashed out.

If you're going to revive old threads, please make it relevant ones. Or even better start your own.

Btw, sniping generally includes manual bids placed near the end of the auction.