Frankly, no.
This is illeagal. Failure to honor a bid is actionable.
And frankly, I'd sue his ass if he did not honor my bid.
John Foust wrote:
At 12:44 AM 1/27/2002 -0500, Glen Goodwin wrote:
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I reserve the right not to honor any bid made during the last 2 minutes of
one of my auctions. Also, I
maintain a list of everyone who has ever "bid sniped" me on any auction
that I was a bidder on, and I
reserve the right to not honor any bids on my auction items from any bidder
on that list.
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Does eBay allow this?
- John