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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1445454, member: 13650&quot;]The ebay method works for some things.&nbsp; Others, people get screwed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ebays method is to try to get people to bid things up beyond what they&#039;re worth before the auction ends which works for some things but not all.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the time, people rely on sniping which buyers have every right to do on there.&nbsp; I have done it.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the person that was sitting with the high bid for 24 hrs and assumed nobody was going to bid, simply loses out.&nbsp; They don&#039;t have a chance to respond, which in many cases they would.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;How many times have people posted complaints here about somebody sniping at the end of an auction and they lose a coin they really wanted?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Coleguy has it correct that the way this other site does it is a true auction style format.&nbsp; &nbsp; Where luck and timing is removed and the final bid price is from whoever had the most desire to have the item and pay the most.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;If you put your highest bid in on ebay and walk away, inevitably people will bid you up when there&#039;s time left to try to win it themselves.&nbsp; If you leave somebody else&#039;s high bid in and wait until the last second to snipe them, that is a more economical way to do it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most seasoned ebay users know this and will hang back until the end.&nbsp; It&#039;s a strategy to pay the least as possible.&nbsp; Which is great for buyers but hurts the sellers.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;With the other format, it removes all strategy and the seller has a chance to receive full market value.&nbsp; I just found it interesting.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying I&#039;m in favor of one or the other.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t be surprised to see ebay go to something like this in the future.&nbsp; Then people would really decide what they were willing to pay for something because they have no choice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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