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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25920505, member: 10461&quot;]Simple answer: to hopefully <i>win</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than bidding a little bit at a time (and thereby tipping my hand to the competition), I&#039;ll bid my max and then let the chips fall where they may.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll win.&nbsp; Often I won&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also good to bid as late as you can, to get in just under the deadline.&nbsp; Bidding at the very last minute is called <i>sniping</i>, as you likely know.&nbsp; It&#039;s a strategy to outbid the high bidder at the very last minute, before he has the chance to respond, raise his bid, and outbid you again. </p><p><br /></p><p>On eBay, I use the esnipe.com software, which will automatically execute my bid literally within the final seconds of an auction.&nbsp; I can enter my bids (snipes) ahead of time and then forget about them until the auction is over, knowing my bids will be executed at the very last second.&nbsp; Until the sniper software bids for me, my interest in the item is not revealed.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I don&#039;t know if esnipe works on other platforms.&nbsp; These days I&#039;m bidding more on sites like Heritage or GreatCollections, or foreign auctions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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