Reply to "What would happen if I manually bid before my snipe?"

rickMember

Here are your choices:

Place a proxy (non-sniping) bid and worry that it will cause a bidding war that will result in your paying extra or losing the auction.
Place a manual snipe and worry that there will be some sudden surge on ebay that causes your snipe to be too late.
Have AS place your snipe and slightly worry that it will get placed early or not placed.
Don’t bid on the auction, and worry that you could have gotten the item for next to nothing.

Which worry number are you up for?

If it was me getting started, I’d use up one of my free snipes to give AS a test. Actually, what I actually did was to use 2 of my get-started free snipes to see what would happen. Seeing that it’s gift giving season, surely you can find something on ebay that closes in the next few hours that’s not very expensive, and might make a decent stocking stuffer, and won’t cause any unnecessary stress if you don’t get it.

11/28/081:25 PM

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