djohannsen
Senior Member
This is the reason that I use a sniping service. I think it's somewhere between ten and twenty cents per snipe, and, for me, it definitely pays for itself (I set a snipe bid and walk away until the auction is over). I've found that if I bid early and walk away (like the above situation), then other bidders will nibble me to death (they bid and aren't the high bidder, then keep coming back again and again bidding a few dollars more each time). Throwing in my bid 4-6 seconds before the auction closes keeps this from happening (and then I don't need to be at the computer when the auction ends).Well I looked at the bid history and it's obvious he had placed a high bid about six days before the auction ended. He only bid once. Every time you bid, it took your bid, increased his bid by proxy ($1 over the current high bid) and reset the selling price.
Just my two cents.
Dave