ebay sniping..

[cherryglitter]

has anyone heard of this?
it's a programme that bids for you in the very last seconds of an auction. so you win the item really cheaply as the person winning won't keep outbidding, basically stops a bidding war.

i don't think it's fair

 

[Hayley90]

its been around for ages, there are loads of them - its also handy when an item finishes at 3am. i've used one.

i am one of those bidders who doesn't bid until eh last 15 seconds though, so its only doing what id be doing anyway. no point bidding before hand, just pushes the price up!

 

[cherryglitter]

i've only just found out about it! i feel like im being cheated LOL.

 

[tina_h75]

never heard of it - it would be just my luck to come up against it, I always get outbid on what I want!

 

[cherryglitter]

someone just tried outbidding me on sleek pallette with like 12 seconds, BUT I WON

 

[Hayley90]

they pay for it, so they are effectively paying for the priveledge, just as they wold if they were to outbid you organically... just means they are quicker off the mark. ive never seen it on little items, only big things.

i used it on a MASSIVE bundle of polarn o pyret baby clothes, worth well over £500. i won it for £38 best win of my life that

 

[v2007]

Goofbay have a 2 second snipe, its my friend

V xxx

 

[cherryglitter]

i dont know what the best win of my life has been... hmmmm!!!
what's goofbay?!

gosh im learning so much recently haha!

 

[special_kala]

i dont need a program i am a human sniper

 

[v2007]

It's hard to explain but it shows you what your bidders have bid on and won.

It has a snipe tool.

It's good.

V xx

 

[cherryglitter]

*googling!*

 

[cherryglitter]

oooh i love misspellings

 

[xolily]

i only bid right at the end anyway, i usually win! x

 

[MrsBandEgglet]

I don't get it

 

[Bunnipowder]

Are them tools free to use?

 

[cherryglitter]

i think some of them are. couldn't tell you which ones though!

 

[Floralaura]

Goofbay sniper is free, thats the one I use..

 

[Rhi_Rhi1]

i have never heard of it sounds cooool

 

[honey08]

never heard of it im always up at 5am ish anyways so take a sneak peak then ,although they other wk i won a grt0-3mth bundle ,99p !but then the selling sent me a thing to cancel my bid saying he had sold the items eleswhere (yeh right ! ) then left me FB i wud leave him neg but he only had 4FB hhhmmmmmmm prob done this all b4

 

[shortie1990]

I only ever bid within the last 10 or so seconds