Pancaket, don't take my following comments personally. It's not personal. It's just that simply, yours and PJ's advice regarding the sniping issue is wrong in accordance with eBay's rules.

The only person who need to be worried about receiving a strike or report is the buyer. If a buyer followed your instructions and bid at the last second after placing it on their Watch List for a week but didn't check to see if the listing had been updated... and then found out it had so chose not to pay... they would be receiving an Unpaid Item dispute and possibly a strike by eBay. The seller has absolutely nothing to worry about in that case. Why PJ is trying to scare people with that notion, I'm not sure. Maybe she can explain that one.

People who expect a listing not to change, a week after it's on the Watch List, and don't bother taking 10 seconds to go back to double-check if anything's been updated... should not be bidding as they're unaware of the rights of a seller. If something is on my Watch List and it gets to the last 24 hrs, I click on it, run through the listing and then decide if I want to bid. It's common sense.