...I was in the Army and deployed in Macedonia, which is the country just south of Kososvo, and I was trying to win a Tascam Portastudio. Being deployed gave me a lot of extra money, that I had no where to spend, and I was willing to pay hansomely for a nice multitrack system. I had guard duty everyday for 6 hours and as well as other duties, and our computer use was limited to 30 mintues at a time. So, I proxy bid what I was willing to pay and hoped for the best. Time after time I was outbid in the last minutes by people who would keep bidding until they outbid me. Well, I finally was able to be at a computer when an auction was ending and got my portastudio, but I didn't Ebay again for a long time because I didn't want to hassle with the whole proxy bidding thing and losing to punks who sniped me.
After getting out of the Army last summer I started to fill in my Maxim Magazine collection through sellers on Ebay and time after time again I was getting sniped. So, I started looking for auctions that ended at times when I would be home and did the proxy bid-refresh thing.
Then...I saw a Auctionsniper.com icon on a auction listing. My Ebay experience has never been the same.
After about 6 months of using AS I've only had one other bidder email me and whine that I should bid like everybody else. I've referred a few people to AS and they love it. My fiancee' still likes to proxy bid because she doesn't think it's worth paying the quarter for AS to bid for her (she only buys the little collectable things she buys if they are in the $3 to $5 range, i.e. she's cheap).
I can only imamgine if I had known about auction sniper when I was trying to get a portastudio. I'd be recording my demos with a $1000 multitrack that I won on Ebay for $405 because I had outsniped a sniper.
Thank you AuctionSniper!
(I know this post sounds like a bad infommercial, I meant it to)
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