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<p>[QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1831432, member: 15929"]Hmmmm. If you are getting outbid at the last minute or even last couple of seconds, a sniping program will be of absolutely ZERO BENEFIT since it is obvious that you are not bidding enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>SNIPING Programs do exactly what eBay ALREADY does in that it wuill bid on your behalf UP TO BUT NOT EXCEEDING the MAXIMUM AMOUNT that YOU HAVE SET.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do not "define" that maximum amount in real life, then a sniping program will simpy not work.</p><p><br /></p><p>You want to win some auctions? Wait til the last second and bid $1,000,000. I can guarantee that you'll win.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may not like the amount you pay but at least you'll win.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps you should share the listings that you are "losing" so that folks can advise you on how to approach your bidding philosophy?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the entire "purpose" behind a sniping program is to "suppress" actual bidding. In other words, if it appears that nobody else is bidding, then folks have a tendency to bid low instead of throwing their maximum onto the pile.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, once that maximum is set, other biddings can eat away at it, a dollar at a time, until they have the high bid OR until they have reached "their" maximum.</p><p>This does you no good and as such, most eBay bidders do not do this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead, they'll wait for the last second and then drop their big bid. 9 out of 10 times, they'll win the item for less than their maximum and on rare occasions, they'll win the item AT their maximum. There will also be times where that maximum bid just is not enough and it'll "look" like they lost by a single bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>The entire point being, you have to know WHAT to BID and WHEN to make that BID.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do not know that, then your win rate is simply not going to increase.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1831432, member: 15929"]Hmmmm. If you are getting outbid at the last minute or even last couple of seconds, a sniping program will be of absolutely ZERO BENEFIT since it is obvious that you are not bidding enough. SNIPING Programs do exactly what eBay ALREADY does in that it wuill bid on your behalf UP TO BUT NOT EXCEEDING the MAXIMUM AMOUNT that YOU HAVE SET. If you do not "define" that maximum amount in real life, then a sniping program will simpy not work. You want to win some auctions? Wait til the last second and bid $1,000,000. I can guarantee that you'll win. You may not like the amount you pay but at least you'll win. Perhaps you should share the listings that you are "losing" so that folks can advise you on how to approach your bidding philosophy? Now, the entire "purpose" behind a sniping program is to "suppress" actual bidding. In other words, if it appears that nobody else is bidding, then folks have a tendency to bid low instead of throwing their maximum onto the pile. But, once that maximum is set, other biddings can eat away at it, a dollar at a time, until they have the high bid OR until they have reached "their" maximum. This does you no good and as such, most eBay bidders do not do this. Instead, they'll wait for the last second and then drop their big bid. 9 out of 10 times, they'll win the item for less than their maximum and on rare occasions, they'll win the item AT their maximum. There will also be times where that maximum bid just is not enough and it'll "look" like they lost by a single bid. The entire point being, you have to know WHAT to BID and WHEN to make that BID. If you do not know that, then your win rate is simply not going to increase.[/QUOTE]
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