Sniping Does Not Require Justification!

that's a bit off-based, There's a finite # of people watching any given ebay item too. I've also been in auctions on ebay where there were multiple snipers present (you just know).it comes down to the luck of the timing, but moreso who bid the highest "max" on that last bid. sniping can be a great tool for when auctions end at say 4am, or in some other timezone andyou're not going to sit around trying to calculate when you should be online. when i started ebay, i bid early in the auction, but always lost, no matter what i did. then i started mixing that with sniping, just a single bid near the end.so an early bid and a single late bid with my "max". I still lost, almost every auction, but it helped. I've also been in some very nasty sniping wars for items, it gets ugly ebay isn't perfect, and sniping isn't the ultimate answer, but it does work, and does work well. sniping is still the way to go, if used responsibly, some of the tools are excellent. especially one I used you could set your time to start, the bid,and set a 'ceiling" (max) amount, and it would automatically move up towards that amount,by bidding the next "minimum" high bid up to the max, as time allowed. that works really well and you still get a bit of the luck of the draw. but the bottom line makes it exactly the same as normal bidding,whoever wishes to pay the most still wins. i dont see how that's unfair - someone may always want that item more than you,some moron on ebay may snipe the price up to 10x it's original retail price,so be it. they want it that badly, they can have it.