30 Mar
2009
30 Mar
'09
8:37 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
You missed what he said. He was encouraging people to
snipe. He was
against people bidding *before* the last 30 seconds.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. "Sniping" (whatever you want to call
it, I personally call it "bidding only once") is a practice I adopted
nine years ago when it was still possible for other people to see what
you were bidding on. I lost a few auctions to "friends" who were
monitoring what I had discovered and was bidding on, so I just adopted
the practice of bidding with 10 seconds left.
I've been using esnipe for over half a decade and have been very pleased.
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