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Subject: Re: [OT]: Re: [OM] e*Bay laugh...
From: Gregg Iverson <giverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:29:18 -0400
Thanks for the tip. Have never tried the two window trick. That might cost me some money!
Gregg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Parzival Herzog" <parz@xxxxxxxx>

> Was ist ze meaningk ovf «snipe»? Do you do das «sniping»  mit eine
pistole?

Sie schnippeln mit Ihrem Scheckheft.

(hey, it's the best that Altavista's Babel Fish can do.) Which roughly
translates back to English as: It schnippeln [You snipe] with your check
book.

Which is to say, you wait for the last moment and enter an eBay bid higher
than the current top bidder. You do this so that you can win the auction
without anyone else getting a chance to outbid you. I've heard that you want
to decide what your max bid for the item will be and have it all entered in
on one browser window, and hit the refresh button on a second one until you
are down to about 5 seconds or so. The hit the bid button on the first
window and confirm your snipe-bid. Don't make the rookie mistake of allowing
30 seconds -- another sniper could be watching and out snipe the sniper.
(Er...or so I'm told, don't really know myself. *evil grin*)


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