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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 709639, member: 13650&quot;]I don&#039;t agree.&nbsp; The psychology of Ebay bidding at the end of an auction works like this: </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; You don&#039;t want to give the previous high bidder an opportunity to think about the fact that they&#039;ve been outbid.&nbsp; I dont even want to let people know I&#039;m there or want it!&nbsp; All they can do is sit there with the current high bid and assume they will win it with under 10 seconds left, because no bids are coming in.</p><p>&nbsp; <b>If people have time to think, they have time to rationalize with themselves and justify bidding higher and higher.&nbsp;&nbsp; And whatever &#039;it&#039; is, it will be bid up higher!</b></p><p><b>&nbsp;</b>&nbsp; I don&#039;t see any point at all in bidding until the last second unless you want to spend time driving the price up for yourself or you absolutely can&#039;t be at the computer.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; In using my method, the previous high bidder is helpless IF they don&#039;t have a high enough bid in.&nbsp; Which seems to be the case most of the time.&nbsp; Most people don&#039;t clear the previous high bid by very much.&nbsp; Depends on how bad everybody wants the item.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; My bid goes through and registers with 3 seconds left or less.&nbsp; Now the other guy doesn&#039;t physically have time to get another bid in or even think about it.&nbsp; The pages can&#039;t load fast enough.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you place it with 3 minutes left, now people get excited, and that leaves ample time for the other guy to place another, higher bid to beat you.&nbsp; Or it turns into a back and forth battle and the only one that wins is the seller.</p><p>&nbsp; The sniping software is intriguing though.&nbsp; That would be the ultimate convenience.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Basically, if you wait till the end, and enter in a bid say $50 above the last bid, you either clear the high bid (or not) and the auction&#039;s over.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; You do this 5 minutes early, now obviously, the other guy might wait until the end and bid it up another $30.58 to try to snipe you.&nbsp;&nbsp; You still win and it still may be a good deal, but now you just paid $30.58 more for not being patient and risking it at the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; While some people will never understand this concept, I believe others like to bid items up for the fun of it, knowing they won&#039;t win, just for something to do. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If there are a ton of bids and several of the bidders have zero feedback, I won&#039;t bid because it&#039;s likely fake accounts shill bidding for the seller.&nbsp; I always check the bids to see who&#039;s bidding.&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite anonymity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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