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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 5527689, member: 31533"]A few times I really loved it. I had bought a theatre booklet from a couple decades ago (with a major star, but before he became famous) for like a dollar, and put it up on ebay for 2.00 or something. It did not sell. I got a message from a buyer asking me to put it up again so I did. Same price. He put in a bid. His was the only bid for the entire week ... up to the end. Someone tried to snipe it with a huge bid. The original bidder had put in a very high price (50.00 or so) so he had to pay a lot because of the sniper who did not get the item. Same thing pretty much happened with an old postcard I had bought for 5.00 and put up for 7 or 8. It went for 50 because of a last minute sniper. Snipe bids can be great for the sellers and if you put in a bid early (large or small) even, you have to be prepared to possibly either pay as much (if a sniper meets your bid) or miss out on it. I've sniped at the last moment. Timing it so that my snipe bid (manually hitting the button) hits at just before the end of the auction and the high bidder can't react. Sometimes that won me the item and sometimes it just made the high bidder pay more, but it was so that when I put mine in, if no one was doing it at the same time as me, they did not have enough time to watch, see it, and react with a higher bid of their own. But I haven't sold on ebay for awhile.[/QUOTE]