Everybody seems to focus on the benefits of last-second bidding on the resulting final price, but there is a significant, more subtle benefit to sniping - the appearance of lack of competition makes the current high bidder complacent and he/she doesn't put as high a max-bid as he would if he knew there would be competition. I have preferred to put in my max-bid the first time I see the lot to avoid time schedule conflicts on manual sniping, but no matter how unbeatable my max is, frequently some #@$!@ comes in and overbids me. I really like the A/S capability to toss in a bid as a total surprise. Thanks Guys!
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