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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2742059, member: 112&quot;]Ya know I can remember when there weren&#039;t any sniping programs, on ebay or anyplace else. Back then if you wanted to win you had to sit at your computer, sometimes in the wee hours of the morning, and hit that enter key at just the right moment. Of course &quot;just the right moment&quot; was kinda hard to judge with dial up, which was all there was at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then some bright enterprising person figured out how to write a software program to do it all for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem in today&#039;s world is that just about everybody uses sniping programs. And when an auction gets ready to close they all start trying to outbid each other, with each bid coming in within fractions of a second of each other. The end result, well the winning bid often ends up being higher, sometimes a good bit higher, than anybody ever expected. I can even recall a couple instances when a coin worth a couple hundred ended being sold for a couple thousand. All on ebay of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now, people have learned, some of them have anyway, to do what should have been done all along. Place a max bid and let it go at that. And if ya win ya win and if ya don&#039;t then somebody almost certainly over-paid. Sad part is most of them don&#039;t even know they over-paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay has become a gold mine for sellers and a bottomless pit for buyers. So either know enough to recognize fair deals on Buy-It-Now, or buy your coins elsewhere. Or, be content to over-pay for every coin you own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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