Reply to "Why doesn't ebay offer sniping?"

petroniusMember

Yes, that's for sure. I got curious because, among every class of items I shop for on ebay (books, toys, posters) sniping is very common, as a wild guess I'd think that, what, maybe 10~20% of ebayers resort to manual or automatic sniping (or maybe 30% at least watch/bid within the last couple of hours or so?) at least some of the time; I'm sure that AS make a good profit (small by comparison to ebay, but anyway a high profit margin business model). If ebay added a good sniping function, even for a fee slightly higher than AS's, I would immediately jump ship, I'm sure a lot of people would. To me it would seem like almost a free lunch for ebay.

3/7/066:22 PM

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