Moonman wrote in
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Very informative, tack!

The last part of your narrative represents just how I have always
understood that sniping can confer an advantage. The first part nicely
exemplifies why it's not good to bid your maximum early.

As regards the contest with qtcat at the end, however, are you saying
that your snipe doesn't leave eBay's proxy bidding software time to
respond before the auction closes? Because, true, if qtcat is
PERSONALLY watching the auction and bidding in small increments in
response to each opposing bid, you've got her. However, if she wants
the thing as much as you postulate, then she probably put in a top bid
of, say, $150, as soon as she saw it, and your snipe bid will be
instantly and automatically exceeded by $1 in the last second of the
auction.

Please respond. I may learn something.

Cordially,
Moonman

And you wound up paying $1 more than she considered it to be worth in the
first place. Whoopee. She goes away happy, and you go away stupid.
Have you never attended an auction? Do you not set a personal limit for
each item when you preview the goods? You could have bid $151 on the
first day, without giving up your personal details to a sniping service.

[Learn something? Yes, you have shown us all the kind of myopic
reasoning that leads one to believe that sniping is beneficial to anyone
other than the seller.]