Reply to "Lead time completely off base--and cost me an item"

airplanenutMember

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That is just the point--this is only an assumption, and hardly a sure bet at that. There is a pretty good chance that the winning bidder was a sniper, just like yourself, and was planning to make his bid in the last few seconds, regardless of any other bids, just as you did

I disagree. I'll write it out more clearly. With a minute left, Bidder 1 is winning the item. AS places my bid with about 40 seconds left, and I take the lead. Bidder 1 comes back, seeing he's been outbid, and places one more bid and wins.

Bidder 1 was ALREADY in the lead, and likely wouldn't have bid again had he not seen that he was outbid. This is, of course, the whole point of sniping... but in this case, there was way too much lead time to call the bid a snipe.

7/25/068:38 PM

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