do you snipe on ebay

[DrewPWiener]

and does it work

yes, and yes if you re very quick with your bidding, and patient

Do you mean use a snipe website?

yes and yes

I use www.bidnip.com

oh right I don't use a website...

Do you have to pay for that site fymumumoftwo.

ATM I currently snipe pavlov style

If you use a website. You could out in a snipe the day before so that you can go out when the auction ends. Sniping only works if someone else hasn't put in a higher bid than your snipe amount.

To me, the whole point is that you don't want to be chained to your PC and get carried away by putting higher bids than you originally intended. You put in the absolute highest that you are willing to pay.

Another advantage is that if someone else is watching the last few minutes of the auction and has say bidded £20 for an item, and the current bid is £18 and your maximum snipe amount is say £24, your bid at £21 will not be registered until 5 seconds before the auction ends which means the other bidder doesn't have time to react and put in another bid.

HTH

put in a snipe

Bidnapper.com and Auctionstealer.com are 2 I've used - one allows you 3 free snipes per week and the other you pay for. I can't remember which is which though.

I used to use bidnip, but have since found a better and free one. I'm not telling you it though .

I don't as I always get free bids through recommending people - if you want me to recommend you (or anyone for that matter) just send me your email address (yippee1973 @ googlemail . com)

I think it is immoral

I use justsnipe but ~I always feel guilty when I do. It's just not sporting, somehow!

Wallace and seeker, it also reduces shill bidding imo. Why feel bad just because you're prepared to pay more than someone else?

I use bidding scheduler to snipe. It's completely free and it works! Anyone can use it, therefore in my view it's a level playing field. If it's unfair on anyone, then it's the sellers IMHO as you don't get a bidding war which tends to push the price up.

How is it immoral? I relly don't understand that.

If the other bidder has put in a higher top bid than you then you don't win.

If the other bidder is willing to pay £25, but has put in a top bid of £20, and you put in £22 at the last minute then it's their fault for not putting in the top amount they are willing to pay.

That said I have never used a website to do it. I do often wait and watch an auction and then put in my bid at the last minute (or the last time that I am available to bid), but I find that helps me with my self-control, rather than putting in my 'top bid', seeing it bettered, and feeling that I have lost something and so wanting to increase my bid beyond what I was originally willing to pay.

There is a concept called 'loss aversion' that says that if you believe something is yours (for instance, if you have been told that you are the winning bidder) then you begin to value it more than when it was not yours. So your estimate of what it is worth gets increased. Bidding at the last minute (or alternatively putting in your highest bid and then not looking at the auction until the end) protects you from your brain telling you that you mustn't lose it and must increase your bids.

I did it and mised out by FOUR pence

That's another tip: don't bid a round number, if you're willing to pay £10 you're probably also willing to pay £10.04, and if you bid £10.04 and someone ekse bis £10.00 you win!