How do people outbid you on ebay with 10 seconds left

rigged I have lost many this way to, wonder if they have another computer and outbid just so they do not have to sell it at a cheap price
 
[quote name='evilmojo12542']rigged I have lost many this way to, wonder if they have another computer and outbid just so they do not have to sell it at a cheap price[/quote]

that is what im thinking cause 2 of the 4 auctions i lost the Dude had 0 feedback and if it is the snipe thing. Ebay should ban it.
 
3 bids in 10 seconds. Holy shaq fu, thats like doing a bid every three seconds. Amazing considering, you have to look at the bid, make sure you want to bid higher, write your offer, then send it. You need like a super robot for that! What items, were you buying anyway? Robot parts? :robot: Never thought I'd use that smiley :)
 
one was NHL 2004 rivels or something like that with 20 seconds left had high bid 1.04 then with 10 seconds left bid look like this

1,50
2.00
2.26

(my high bid was 2,01) so they are trying to say they put in those 3 bids in 10 seconds
 
Ebay does try to fight sniping by changing their login protocols for bidding and various other methods but the sniping programs update to adjust to those changes.
 
was it made by the same person? or different people? It could just be that in the last 20 seconds he sent a maximum bid higher then yours so everytime you were bidding with your maximum bid, it was beating you out.
 
You can just decide what the maximum you'll pay for an item is that the type it in, if they snipe you they need to snipe for a larger amount then they expect. That's what I do, if the most I'm going to spend it $20 then I type in $20 and I don't check again until the auction is over.
 
It is impossible for eBay to ban such techniques. On the Internet nobody knows you're software. Unless you want to answer a little Turing Test every time you bid and slow things down to a crawl.

Plus it doesn't really matter. If you wanted the item all that badly you would have bid higher than the sniper was willing to go. The world doesn't owe you bargains. Especially not in an open market.
 
[quote name='epobirs']It is impossible for eBay to ban such techniques. On the Internet nobody knows you're software. Unless you want to answer a little Turing Test every time you bid and slow things down to a crawl.

Plus it doesn't really matter. If you wanted the item all that badly you would have bid higher than the sniper was willing to go. The world doesn't owe you bargains. Especially not in an open market.[/quote]

Good point.
 
If you had 3 browsers open ready to go it would be easy to bid 3 times in 10 seconds, ive never used any programs though.
 
Why should eBay ban sniping? There is a certain alotted time for each auction for a reason.
 
[quote name='coolcps']If you had 3 browsers open ready to go it would be easy to bid 3 times in 10 seconds, ive never used any programs though.[/quote]
That is what I did before I started using snipers
 
This wouldn't be a problem at all if Ebay would just alter their system for auctions. i.e., auction gets extended 5 mintues after every bid that occurs with one minute left.
 
i always win auctions this way..open several screens of the same auction, put different bids in each screen.......always works
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']was it made by the same person? or different people? It could just be that in the last 20 seconds he sent a maximum bid higher then yours so everytime you were bidding with your maximum bid, it was beating you out.[/quote]

Maybe there's a guy stalking the OP on ebay..
 
PROTIP: make your first bid the maximum amount you will pay for the item (this is why eBay uses proxy bidding in the first place) and you will NEVER EVER get sniped. It's very simple.
 
It sucks to try and bid at the last second when you are on a slow dial-up connection. Glad I have broadband.
 
it seems to me that a lot of people really don't understand the whole ebay bidding process, thinking that if they type in a bid of $20, they will automatically pay that $20 on the item. even someone who i know that sells a lot of stuff on ebay thought that. i mean, it seems brutally obvious to me how it works, but i don't know.

directed at "deathcabforcutie": have you used the justsnipe site before? i've been looking at the "sniping" sites for a little bit, and a free one would be pretty good. i'm just not sure about the security of the site. i'd imagine it's pretty ok, but if you have any experience with it, that would be helpful.

the "snipe" strategy can be useful to use if others don't understand the concept of ebay's proxy bidding, thus keeping the final cost of the item down.
 
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