Thanks for your help, I'll read up on the FAQ about it. I thought I could simply place a snipe whenever I wanted. I read many times in eBays community, that some snipers have even won items by sniping when there is just 1 second or zero seconds left, they still manage to get theyre snipe in.
Ive found that I can manually get a bid in myself with 2 seconds left, buy opening up 2 pages for the same auction on screen, put your bid in, continue to the submnit bid page.
Then on the other page on screen, continuously click refresh under the 1 minuite mark.
Then when its down to 10 seconds, immediately click submit bod on the other, it manages to get the bid in with 2 - 4 seconds left.
But obviously, this is no good when auctions are in the early hours of the morning or at work.