I recently won a snipe on eBay (thanks AS!)

But I just received a disturbing email from the seller. The message was simply a confirmation that the item will ship soon, but what disturbed me was the subject that said:

Re: Auction Sniper Winning Bidder Info (eBay Item #............)

This means that AS actually sent an email to the seller and shows that we used a sniping service, and this seller was replying back ("Re:"). I'm not ashamed of using AS but I know that some sellers don't like their auctions to be sniped at. Can anybody confirm if this is true?

I personally think that how we win the auction is our business and don't like the idea that AS exposes our methods. BTW, I haven't emailed the seller at all, so it's not possible that the seller was replying to a message I sent (or forwarded).

Hi Hunter,
If you go to "My Snipes", then "Modify Account" then scroll down to "Insta-mail" you can turn this pesty feature off.

Its what most of us do. Congrats on your win though.

Sadly it defaults to Yes when you sign-up to AS which can be a pain 'cos some sellers are anti-sniping. AS have been asked to remove it or to set the default to no but to no avail...

R2

Hey thanks guys for the tip!
I'll be damned, would have never guessed..