Why have snipe time less than 30 seconds?

justtennisMember

The way I see it, the reason to snipe is to get your bid in at the end of an auction so a manual nibbler cannot over bid you. If your snipe is less than an existing maximum, you are going to loose. If some snipe comes in after yours with a higer bid, you are going to lose.

So why not set a snipe time of 30 (or more) seconds, to make sure it gets through the eBay servers. Isn't the chance that a human can pick this up and manually out bid you in 30 seconds minimal? And isn't the risk of not getting through the servers much greater?

11/1/038:46 AM

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