I was interested to see that some nonBay auctions extend the bidding if
there is sniping. Seems fair to me.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Sep 23, 2004, at 2:32 PM, Wayne Culberson wrote:
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>> My eSnipe setting is 4 seconds.
>> Walt, a sniper sniping
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> I think your 4 seconds is not necessary, and may even be detrimental.
> Actually, I set my snipes a bit more than the default settings. The
> reason
> is, you have to have to bid in increments to meet the ebay settings.
> Apparently if two snipes come in at the same time, the highest one
> wins even
> if it is only a cent or two higher. I've won a couple items that way
> by only
> a cent or two, and also lost one by a couple cents. You can see this
> situation by looking at the bid history of course. So now I set my
> snipes
> for the maximum time that I think a watcher will not have time to put
> in a
> bid. That way, if another snipe is only a few cents higher than mine,
> but is
> a few seconds later, he can't get in because it doesn't meet the bid
> increment. That's also why I set snipes for odd amounts above typical
> increments - sometimes you can win by a few cents.
>
> Wayne (who has about all he needs, and doesn't need to win any more
> auctions
> either)
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