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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1382482, member: 24633&quot;]For the people who use a bidding service, it&#039;s good that there are some who think their &quot;manual snipe&quot; is the only way to go. Like krispy and some others have said, the manual bidder just can&#039;t compete with the bidding service the majority of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used Bidnapper for many years (it doesn&#039;t matter who knows it now!) I won about 85% of the auctions in which I participated, and I wasn&#039;t overbidding. Someone mentioned that they paid $10 for 55 snipes using one of the bidding services. I was placing 50+ bids every week, and it only cost $43 per year for unlimited use. You do the math!</p><p><br /></p><p>Using a bidding service has many advantages: </p><p><br /></p><p>&gt; I&#039;d like to see one of the &quot;manual snipers&quot; enter their last-second bids for a dozen or more auctions ending within a minute or two of one another. </p><p><br /></p><p>&gt; It also keeps you from getting involved in a &quot;feeding frenzy&quot;. Just set the amount you want to bid and forget it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&gt; For those of you who believe that setting your max bid early is best, as was previously stated, you can&#039;t compete against the bidding service when their incrementally higher bid is placed with 1-3 seconds left. Even if you are hovering over the &quot;Submit&quot; button with a higher counterbid, it is too late.</p><p><br /></p><p>&gt; Another drawback for the early bid is that if you decide to retract your bid, you can only do so by requesting the retraction from the seller. He may or may not agree with you, but be sure, there will be repercussions! If you maintain this practice, you will gain a bad reputation with many sellers. This is never the case when you use a bidding service. You can delete your bid, and the seller won&#039;t even know you were interested.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nope! For the person who participates in dozens of auctions on a weekly, monthly or annual basis, the bidding service is the only way to go. It can pay for itself 10x-100x over in the savings you gain by sniping when no other person knows you&#039;re there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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