Originally Posted By: SwampDonkey
I registered and set up an account, watched for a while and then placed a bid. I had no idea that even though an item is posted for 7 days that only the last 10 seconds really counts! I missed out on a few good deals but learned from my mistakes...

I have bought a hundred or more items on ebay over the years, but rather than camping out on the computer toward the end of the auction to snipe the item, I simply register my maximum bid on esnipe and set the timer for 4 seconds prior to the auction end.

I generally enter a bid ending in $0.77 or $0.87 as most people proxy a bid ending in $.01 or $0.51, and am amazed how many times I've won an auction by less than the minimum bid increment.

Jim
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