But I'm sorry to say it soured me after a time on bothering to bid on any auction whatsoever. I know sniping got a lot of people what they wanted, and made some sellers a lot of money, and I understand that it was always "eBay-legal". This is completely at odds with live auctions, where bidding isn't closed until no one else wants to bid. I often wonder whether sniping, rather than having to wait for auctions to end, is what really made BIN so much more popular on wrote: There were times I would have gladly outbid the sniper if given the chance. Somehow it always seemed "not quite cricket" to me to be hiding in the virtual shadows until the last millisecond (when no other bidder could respond), rather than participating in the open bidding. But surely you must have to be prepared, at least in principle, to pay for them all in the event every one of your snipe bids wins? Of course, I suppose if you're dealing with hundreds of items closing at the same time, that's a little impractical. If a maximum advance bid is required, I don't see the difference in doing that, or in waiting until, say, an hour before the close and placing the highest bid you're willing to pay. My only consolation was that the sniping bidder was going to have to pay a very high price for the item. Or does the snipe user have to specify a maximum bid in advance? I recall a number of times losing very desirable items by just one dollar to snipers, on which I'd placed what I thought was a fairly outrageously high reserve bid during the last few minutes of the auction. One thing that has always puzzled me about sniping programmes is whether they were actually able to "smart-snipe", that is, somehow read the highest reserve bid by existing bidders and outdo it at the last possible millisecond. I suspect there are fewer people sniping now, simply because there are fewer auctions on eBay, which is probably why some sniping services are starting to charge a fee per item won. I haven't bought anything on eBay at auction for a long, long time, but I used to do so many years ago, and snipers were a terror then.
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