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Message:: [QUOTE="Rassi, post: 1747169, member: 22149"]They place your bid at the last moment which *CAN* help prevent the price from going higher.  How can it do that?  Let's say John puts in his max bid at $100 via a regular eBay bid. You place a bid of $105 via a sniping program. The sniping program places your bid, and (depending on the increment at that price), ebay bids the price up until you're higher than John's top bid of $100. If you weren't using a sniping program, John would have time to receive an email alerting him that he's been outbid, and he'd have time to come back and bid higher (if he wanted). Since you used the sniping program, there are usually only seconds before the auction ends when your bid goes in, so if you have the highest bid, you're going to win. So, in some cases it can help to keep the bidding from going higher.[/QUOTE]