eBay snipers

[JB Books]

I've never used a service or app (hadn't even considered it). I snipe the old fashioned way and love it. Just like I like to skin pilgrims at the gun shows ahen they are walking around the show. The fun for me is to get it for as little as possible.

 

[milsurp2.0]

Bidding early allows shill bidding to run the price up.

 

[Johnny]

I object to the characterization "honest bid." It is meant to imply that a snipe is a dishonest bid. Remember, it's not really cheating if you want it a little more than the other guy.

It's cheating if you don't type in the bid yourself but rely on a program to bid just a little more. If you want it more than the other guy, put in your max bid and live with it.

I mean if the rules are the same for everyone, who's the real fool?

Whats all this talk about rules and cheating. Are there a set of gentlemens rules for purchasing via an online auction.

Hey no hitting below the belt and dont shoot the commander off his horse on the field of battle. Its not very gentlemanly of you.

 

[UnSafe]

I use Bidnapper as a "fire & forget" tool. Enter a max bid early and don't worry about missing an auction ending. It can make rapid incremental bids in the final seconds of an auction.

 

[JB Books]

I love auctions and have done well with them over the years, but you must be careful. Luckily, I've always been able to return bad items.

 

[Blinocac200sx]

Sniper are why I only look at buy it now items on ebay.

 

[dlbleak]

manual sniper here. most of the fun is bumping a bid with 7 seconds left and winning. before ebay had a clock that showed the seconds on the auction, you would have to have a watch with a second hand to keep track.

 

[waltham41]

Have been using this site for years for ebay sniping... works very well and is cost effective

http://www.snip.pl/

 

[alank2]

Hi,

gixen.com is the way to go. It is FREE and will place your maximum bid 5 seconds before the auction ends. This allows you to set your maximum bid, not draw any attention to the auction, and have your maximum chance of getting it at the lowest price. I can't count the number of auctions I missed before I used gixen.

Good luck,

Alan

 

[ultimase]

jbidwatcher is a free java based program that allows you to get bids in. You can set how close you want to snipe.

Ebay wants you to bid early, it allows the price to go up. Set a snipe price as the max price you're willing to pay for the item. If you get it, then congrats, if you don't then you didn't want to spend more money on the item. That's not the winner's fault, you weren't willing to go higher than that price.

That being said I bid on ebay the old fashion way quite a bit and for quite a long time. Basically everything is the same, if you bid earlier a higher amount that the sniper you will win the item, if you bid the same as a sniper at an earlier time you will win as well. If that sniper is willing to pay more than you, than the advantage is you have no time to reply, but you weren't anyways if you bid your max in the first place. Now when I bid the old fashion way I'd still wait until under 10 seconds, and mainly because I didn't want to bump the bids up unnecessarily.