Reply to "Negative Seller Reaction"

Samaurai, it depends on one's perspective. From the standpoint of your snipe happening versus your never bidding on the auction at all, then naturally the snipe raised the seller's profits over the next highest bid and he should be happy.

OTOH, some sellers see it as a matter of your sniping their auction versus your bidding earlier in the auction. They feel that the latter would have resulted in counterbids and maybe a bidding war. We snipers cannot deny this, because avoiding that very scene is at least part of why we snipe in the first place.