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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1382261, member: 19065"]Sorry, but I disagree, both with you and the Wikipedia, in this case. Wikipedia is far from being an infallible information source to settle a disagreement. </p><p> </p><p>In a timed auction, people participating in the auction can see whenever a new bid is made, (that's you, manually bidding) and decide whether or not to match it. They cannot react as fast as 'sniped bids' can be placed. Manually bidding is not bid sniping, even if you think you have won auctions in this manner, you wouldn't know whether there were sniped bids placed or not until after the auction closed as the time would have expired for you to react.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not a matter of arguing semantics either. Your method of manually bidding is not sniping, it's <i>just</i> bidding. It is bidding during the course of the auction whether it was days before, the same day, the last minutes or the last fraction of a full minute before the auction ended. You are bidding from home in the same way as if you were sitting in a room with people togehter bidding on an item being offered live. Your manual flagging of the auctioneer to place a bid isn't sniping, even as the auctioneer calls the last chance before the hammer falls, anymore than is your clicking to agree to placing a bid in the last seconds would be-- your manual method does not qualify as a sniped bid. </p><p><br /></p><p>In online auctions bid sniping does not apply to manual bidding, it applies to faster than human hands and home based internet provider's servers. It applies to those of servers of greater speed and accuracy implemented as a service to beat out manual bids placed at the last moments during online auctions. These systems arose to beat manual bidders, hence bid sniping.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1382261, member: 19065"]Sorry, but I disagree, both with you and the Wikipedia, in this case. Wikipedia is far from being an infallible information source to settle a disagreement. In a timed auction, people participating in the auction can see whenever a new bid is made, (that's you, manually bidding) and decide whether or not to match it. They cannot react as fast as 'sniped bids' can be placed. Manually bidding is not bid sniping, even if you think you have won auctions in this manner, you wouldn't know whether there were sniped bids placed or not until after the auction closed as the time would have expired for you to react. This is not a matter of arguing semantics either. Your method of manually bidding is not sniping, it's [I]just[/I] bidding. It is bidding during the course of the auction whether it was days before, the same day, the last minutes or the last fraction of a full minute before the auction ended. You are bidding from home in the same way as if you were sitting in a room with people togehter bidding on an item being offered live. Your manual flagging of the auctioneer to place a bid isn't sniping, even as the auctioneer calls the last chance before the hammer falls, anymore than is your clicking to agree to placing a bid in the last seconds would be-- your manual method does not qualify as a sniped bid. In online auctions bid sniping does not apply to manual bidding, it applies to faster than human hands and home based internet provider's servers. It applies to those of servers of greater speed and accuracy implemented as a service to beat out manual bids placed at the last moments during online auctions. These systems arose to beat manual bidders, hence bid sniping.[/QUOTE]
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