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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1367661, member: 112"]Sure is, quite a few of them even. They are called sniping programs. What they do is wait until the last second or last few seconds before an auction ends and then they place your bid. Problem is thousands of people use these programs. So you have snipers out-sniping each other. But what you are describing is nothing more than ebay's own software. It's the max bid system. Say you want a coin and the current bid is $75. You expect the coin to sell for around $150, but to you it's worth $165. So you place your max bid of $165. What ebay's software does right then is increase the current bid by the next bid increment, say $5. So the current bid goes up to $80. A few minutes later somebody else bids $90. But your max bid is still higher so the ebay software increases the bid to $95 - automatically, without you doing anything. That will keep happening until nobody outbids you.[/QUOTE]