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bjt posted: I am not sure why some sellers dislike the practice, for if it wasn't for that last second bid, the price would have been lower anyway.
No one is preventing anyone from bidding, because the time on the auction determines the last bid.

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Gardengnome posted: I often check the bid list just out of curiosity to see who's bidding and I have seen last second bids, but who cares?


First of all, to avoid any possible confusion, I agree with both of you. Obviously (since I snipe) I see no problem with it; afterall, the bottom line is that the highest bid ultimately wins.

But to address possible reasons that sellers dislike snipers...well, quite simply, it's greed. By their way of thinking, your last second bid is not allowing somebody else the opportunity to come back with a higher bid...thus, driving up the selling price.

Of course you'll have some who will claim that it is just unfair to other bidders to not have the opportunity to then place a higher bid...but that is just plain poppycock since everybody equally knows the time of the auctions end AND everybody can place their own max bid at anytime either by way of sniping (automated or manual) or by the proxy bid system.

So I see nothing unfair at all about it...as long as everybody places their max possible bid, it seems quite fair to me!

Other people view a system (such as I believe Yahoo Auctions might use) which adds some period of time to the end of an auction when a bid is placed in the last few minutes...but I view this as somewhat unfair to anybody who can't be sitting in front of their computer at every moment of the day or night when their auctions might be ending.

I suppose that regardless of how it is set up, somebody is always going to feel screwed. :::shrug:::

WarriorNun

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning"
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