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popcornpicker

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I was sniping a couple of knives on ebay tonite. Two identical knives from the same seller, just cheap junk, but it is a theme that I'm working on. These are black wrinkle-finish with rosewood handles. I have them in every variation I can find. Only 1 person had bid on the second one for $6.95. I entered a max bid of $12.19 and was high bidder at 7.50 with 18 sec left. When I hit the pay now button, the price was $12.19. How the hell does that happen?
 
There were probably other proxy bids that were more then $7.50.

Go back to the auction and click on bidders. It should show you the bidding history.
 
I have had similar snipes of mine do the same thing. Upon investigating I was informed that the other bidder made a last bid close enough to my max bid ..but not over it so that it rolled to my max bid as the high bid.
Example at the last say 8 seconds the other bidder bids $12.00 the max bid next would be a .50 increment but since the auction ended it rolls over to the next highest bid. In this case your $12.19 bid.
Simple eh?

Peace.
 
popcornpicker said:
I was sniping a couple of knives on ebay tonite. Two identical knives from the same seller, just cheap junk, but it is a theme that I'm working on. These are black wrinkle-finish with rosewood handles. I have them in every variation I can find. Only 1 person had bid on the second one for $6.95. I entered a max bid of $12.19 and was high bidder at 7.50 with 18 sec left. When I hit the pay now button, the price was $12.19. How the hell does that happen?
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... shipping? :confused:
 
I checked the bid history and someone tried to outsnipe me with 2 sec left at $12.00. I got it at my price. It was really strange, though.
 
It wasn't strange, as most sniping takes place in the last few seconds.
You left the bidding open with 18 seconds left.
I could manual put in a minimum of two bids in that long a time.
Using sniping software, you can time a bid to be executed two seconds before the auction end easily.
Fun, huh?
 
Its not even sniping software, its called use 2-3 windows of the same auction. You can place several bids VERY quickly.

I doubt theres sniping software, people just don't understand that when someone wants something they might have other people on computers ready to bid as well.
 
I prefer manual sniping. I have a nack for putting in bids with one second left. It is more thrilling that way.
 
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