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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 166249, member: 3813&quot;]Like I said... If you bid on ebay and don&#039;t like sniping you probably haven&#039;t tried it. Once you do, I doubt you&#039;d have anything bad to say about it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what everyone else uses it for, but I use it to bid on items for myself, not to, &quot;bid on half of the coins on ebay with the purpose of getting a low price to resale.&quot;&nbsp; Yes, *you* can sit there and wait until the auction ends, but *I* can&#039;t sit around all day by a computer when every auction ends, so it&#039;s no laziness, it&#039;s just that I would like to bid on things that sometimes end when I&#039;m not near a computer.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no &quot;ripping off.&quot;&nbsp; If you were interested in the same coin I am interested in, you enter your maximum bid (be it 7 days before the auction ends or 7 seconds), while I do the same.&nbsp; If my maximum bid is higher... I win it, if yours is... you win.&nbsp; How&#039;s that ripping anyone off?&nbsp; The only thing I can conceive is that the bid is placed in the final seconds but with timed auctions, every submitted bid counts (be it placed 7 days or 7 seconds before the auction ends).&nbsp; If you (anyone) doesn&#039;t like this, then bid in live auctions (fair warning.. going once.. going twice...), not timed auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I pay to have the system submit my maximum bid in the final seconds of an auction.&nbsp; Same thing you&#039;ve probably done manually.&nbsp; Only difference is that I can set it up a week earlier and not have to be by the computer when the auction ends.&nbsp; I can also place a maximum bid for several similar items and if I win any of them, the other bids are cancelled (something you can&#039;t do manually as Ebay won&#039;t permit this reason for retraction).</p><p><br /></p><p>To me... it&#039;s a hobby.&nbsp; To others... it&#039;s a business.&nbsp; Regardless, if you don&#039;t want to see these &quot;profiteers&quot; outbid you, bid higher than they do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m often there when it ends as well, and often I&#039;m not.&nbsp; My &quot;wife&quot; would be the snipe system I suppose, as my real wife wouldn&#039;t hang around for coin auctions (not an insult, I wish she would <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p>You probably don&#039;t need it as you choose to manually do it.&nbsp; The difference isn&#039;t, &quot;caring about what you are buying and not just blanket purchasing things to resale&quot; -it&#039;s manual verses automation.&nbsp; That&#039;s about the whole of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you enter the max, as if you are on the Ebay site bidding, same exact thing.&nbsp; When you submit your max on Ebay, it gets entered immeditately, verses a snipe where it will be entered within the last few seconds.&nbsp; You can increase or decrease your bid, or even cancel your bid if you decide you don&#039;t want it (up to a certain time).&nbsp; Obviously it won&#039;t (can&#039;t) submit your snipe for $10 if the bidding has gone over that.&nbsp; All regular Ebay rules and policies apply, there&#039;s nothing different.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve sniped things and watched it and the auction went over my snipe and I decided (as you said) that I cared enough to pay a bit more and submitted a manual bid and won.&nbsp; Honestly it&#039;s such a great thing that I&#039;m not trying to sell it, rather than share that it is a great thing.&nbsp; Personally I don&#039;t care if anyone uses it or does it manually or submits bids 7 days in advance.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t matter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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