for days do you feel kinda guilty for sniping it out from under them or do you enjoy the power trip? Go on - be honest.

If they don't got the sense to bid high enough or snipe for it then hey I love winning it really gets my ego boosted!!!!

I love it when you snipe someone by the smallest margin. My best snipe has been by 1 whole penny! My max bid was $50.01 and his or her's was $50. Boy that person must have been boiling I waited 4 days to do that. Awwwww, the memories

I just pulled off a snipe where the bidder was one of these guys who enters a bid and then "snipes himself" with a few seconds left in the auction even if he's still the only bidder. Obviously, he didn't have AS. I checked out his bidding record, determined that his final bid was always $9.88 above his first bid and he always put in his second bid with 18-20 seconds to go. Using this information I sniped him by 50 cents more, with 7 seconds left to go. I'll bet he *still* doesn't know how I did that.

A person after my own heart! I don't have the time or experience yet to do what you did.
For me the widgit is really the most important thing - winning it is only a means to an end. Well- thats what I tell myself.

I snipe for lots of reasons. The time difference - I am a UK bidder. Also I am recognising the same names going after the same things as me. I put in a lot of time researching items and I detest bid stalkers and despise nibblers. But like any tool, there is a learning curve and you gotta put in the time and effort to learn the skills. But I still enjoy the power trip too!

... I bow to the Master! Grin. I'm new to the AS deal but have used techniques like yours for a long time in eBay. It really makes a big difference if you study the competition. I won an electric bike for a coworker using similar methods, for only $2 above the max proxy. It wasn't even the bid increment so my guess is the high bidder was crying in his beer. I checked out his (her?) previous bids for similar bikes but I had to bid "by hand" using a T1 connection which was certainly helpful. Hey, my coworker was so thrilled to get it cheap he bought me a free lunch. Works for me. Personally the adrenalin rush was great.

Hey BL, sniping is always fun (though sometimes the guilt is there...).

I never feel guilty. I LOVE sniping.

Before I discovered AS I got into a bidding war on an item I REALLY wanted. I bid more than I really wanted to and still lost -- to a sniper. Now I set my max price and avoid bidding wars. Even when I lose an auction I take pleasure in knowing that my last second snipe has sometimes driven the winning proxy bid up by a significant amount.

... even if a snipe IS lost, you can take some satisfaction in knowing that someone else watched their final offer go up at the very last second. So at least their bid was tested, if not defeated!

...seeing my AS pals enjoying the experience. Thanx for the great feedback!