ok why would anyone want to promote sniping if you're a seller? Isn't it better to let people manually bid to get a higher sale price? Plus I'm not sure free snipes are really worth telling the world about sniping. What happens if I'm sniping something another person is sniping too? Does it go to the first person who enters it like proxy bidding does? If every one snipes where's the fun in that? It already sucks that people wait til the last day to bid.
Only a tiny %age use AS - apparently most people who snipe do so manually.
quote:It already sucks that people wait til the last day to bid.
- I guess this means that you don't like the way AS works? At the end of the auction, it's the higher bidder who wins, whether s/he bids at the beginning or the end. You're obviously missing the cut and thrust of a traditional Auction which isn't what Ebay is 'about'. Sniping is a method that only works on Auctions with a fixed end time - it won't work with your traditional Auction.
You're right - a seller may get a higher price if sniping doesn't take place but it's a 'feature' of this sort of auction, it's legal and it cannot be prevented unless the auction close is extended.
BTW - I just tried to buy two DVDs using ordinary bidding - I lost both. I won't be doing that again!
I'm only complaining from a sellers point of view. As a buyer I love it! I get great deals this way. I guess it's give n take. Can't have my cake, blah blah blah
Pervinpatty, look at it this way: snipes come into an auction with only ten seconds left, or less. At that point the proxy bidders are all done bidding -- but even if they're not, so long as they get their last-ditch bids in in time for eBay to accept them, they count, snipe or no snipe. So when a sniper comes into an auction the other bidders are pretty much done bidding -- and the sniper has to outbid them all to win the auction. Where do you see sellers losing money from snipers' activities?
