i've been bidding on some eBay items lately. unfortunately, i've been outbid on two auctions in the last 5-10 seconds of bidding.
dammit!
what is it with people who do this? granted, i watch items and usually try to bid on them the last day on some that i want to monitor. however, i don't think i've done a last minute bid in years; it would have been for something i truly wanted. i just wanna know if there's a last second program or sumpin' that people use to bid on eBay. i mean, it's not like you're gonna sit there...waiting until the last possible seconds. is your computer calibrated to eBay Standard Time?
sigh
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It's called bid sniping, and I've done it many times! It's not considered very good etiquette, but I've done it anyway. I have been known to sit and hit the "refresh" key every 20 secs or so to watch the bid... then about 30 seconds or so before it ends, I bid. You have to be careful though because sometimes your bid doesn't get registered as fast as you think it will be, and boom-- it's over and you're out of luck. Or sometimes there is another bid sniper doing the same thing--that's REALLY fun.
i've done that a couple of times...i'm just wondering if they go about it in a different way, like w/ a program or sumpin'.
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