Was I snipered ?

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Bidding on a fleece for dd earlier, with less than a minute to go I was winning, then with 12 seconds to go one bid appears over £6 more , then another slightly higher. Outbid me and tbh were more than I would have paid anyway but was this snipering ? Those bids bore no relation to what I was previously winning at nor had the buyers previously bidded.

Yes, probably. You just set it to what you're willing to pay and it does it for you.

what is snipering?

I thought that although you entered your maximum, it only goes up if someone else is also bidding, so if your max is £3 and someone else comes and puts their max at £6, it would go to, say £3.10 and stay there if you didn't put in a higher bid???

So maybe the other 2 came along at last minute each with high max bids, and it automatically jumped to their max, iyswim

wow.

That was as clear as mud, wasn't it. sorry.

Yes, that's sniping. I do my own, as long as I'm going to be around at the end - decide how much I'm willing to pay and jump in with that bid (however much higher it isthan the current one - if nobody else is, in you only pay 50p/£1 over the last bid in the end, unless it's something really expensive) with a few seconds to go.

The exception to that was when I was after a specific wardrobe that IKEA don't do any more, and it was local so could be picked up - there was a lot of interest in the last few minutes and I ended up paying about £160, when they were only £130 new and I'd decided just to go up to that but I needed it

(What is really annoying is when a couple of people who don't understand how it works best keep bidding each other up early on )

Nope it sounds like a snipe to me, snipe is an auction sniper, you can set it to come in at up to 4 seconds before the auction ends and it basically bids up to the maximum that you or the previous bidders put in if they are lower iyswim.

What happens if 2 or more bidders all use a sniper and bid similar amounts??

The earliest one counts WW, I think

Ah - thanks, rh. (You mean if they both bid eg £5, but one was set at 5 secs to go and one at 4 secs, the 5-sec one would win?)

Yes, I'm sure that's how it works.