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Message:: [QUOTE="Vess1, post: 823038, member: 13650"]Say someone is winning an item on ebay currently at 50.00.   But they have a max bid in of $60.00.   Ok, so you enter your max bid into ebay at $100.00.   Now that clears out their $60 and probably puts you currently winning at $62.   But, now, they are losing and will probably keep bidding and bidding up to your max amount until they beat it.  Because you've already entered it in.   With a sniping program, you can enter the auction #, bid amount and time you want it to bid, (usually with 1-2 seconds left) and it will enter your max bid in at the last second.   It's an all or nothing venture at that point.  But, the guy sitting there winning at 50.00 and a max bid of 60.00, and the guy bidding at the last second with 75.00, don't have time or a chance to bid up the item and beat you.   You can do this manually yourself if you want as well.  But just requires sitting there at the computer when the auction is ending.   If someone has a ridiculously high max bid in ebay already, which happens occasionally, it won't really help you.   But most of the time, people don't enter their max bid in early because they don't want other people bidding it up.  As things get bid up, people get used to the price and are always willing to pay a little more to beat the other guy.  That's why most avoid it.   Some people don't understand this about ebay yet.[/QUOTE]