Reply to "Does a 5 second lead allow enough time to be outbid?"

rickMember

It's early for me, so I'm still in a semi-coma, but I think this issue is a two parter:

1) Can someone place a manual snipe within the last few seconds? Yes. Fairly easy to do. Several of us USE to place 3 to 5 second manual snipes.
2) Can someone place a "retaliatory" (as a result of one of our snipes) snipe within the last few seconds? This, I think, is the question, and this is the one that everyone has answered. Very unlikely someone could "respond" that quickly to one of our snipes. That would have to be one "wired" sniper to do that.

If one of us places an 8 second snipe, and we are out-sniped, most likely it was by another automated snipe (service/software).

There are those nibbling-snipers (there may be another official name for this hybrid) that start about a minute before the close of the auction, but what kind of a life is that? You know, I don't think we've ever discussed nibbling-snipers.

9/3/034:59 AM

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