An option to bid with a "maximum" bid OR a specific increment

No point as eBay does this for you - see Proxy Bidding somewhere on the ebay help pages.
You won't always get your iten for your max but usually for the next increment unless there's a proxy bid in place when you will sometimes win by 1 penny!

R2

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Originally posted by chocoabuddha:
That way, if the highest recent bid is higher than your maximum bid, nothing will happen.

Ebay won’t allow a bid (snipe) unless it’s at least an ebay increment above the current price. Perhaps region2 and I aren't understanding the nature of your question?

Oh I see. So eBay already has Proxy Bidding? That's interesting.

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So eBay already has Proxy Bidding?

Correct.

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Originally posted by region2:
You won't always get your iten for your

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iten



           

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Originally posted by chocoabuddha:
Oh I see. So eBay already has Proxy Bidding? That's interesting.

Ebay's proxy bidding is, however, nothing like AS.

Ebay will start raising bids at the earliest moment,
while AS will not submit your bid
until the last seconds of the auction.

Your eBay bid locks you in and lets everyone
know what it was, while your AS bid defers your
actual commitment until the very end,
and does not let anyone know you were competing.

The very existence of the "bid sniping" industry,
of which AS is a part, is due to the fact
that it makes no sense to bid in advance
at an open auction, as well as that eBay
violates the very structure of open auctions
by stopping them at a fixed instant,
rather than after bid incrementing ceases,
all of which creates both the need and possibility
of "bid sniping," which does not exist
(and is in fact impossible) at real (live) auctions.

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Hello Babblu0 -

Auction Sniper actually logs in to your eBay account to place your bid for you - but this varies in no way from a bid you place manually. Once you bid is sent, it performs exactly as any bid you would place on eBay and therefore follows all of eBay's rules regarding bids. Timing is the principle difference when using our system, but once a bid goes in, it will behave as any other eBay bid.

- Craig