To verify that you were “picked off”, you COULD research the winning bidder to see if they’ve placed multiple snipes on another auction. Grant it, isn’t completely accurate, but if they have a history of only placing one snipe (and losing), then they are PROBABLY using a sniping service/program, which means, even if the snipe was place one second, OR one minute, before the end it wouldn’t have made any difference.
And (not that this is much of an argument) an earlier snipe wins a later tying snipe.
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I would like to have a choice of which risk I want to take.
In full agreement. It’s also fairly accept among users that AS should do a better job of disclosing that snipes (mainly Sunday nights) “may” (rare) be placed up to a minute early.
