Unethical 'Sniping' Tool

Ok I admit I am stumped: What on earth is this supposed to accomplish? other than inciting nibblers and thereby having to pay more, or else just losing the item. Are you saying that when you retract a bid on ebay, the bids that came subsequent to that bid (and preceded retraction) are cancelled or something?? If so, I sure didn't know.

I assume we're not talking about a seller using this tactic, given that you say your 2nd snipe is the 'winning' snipe.

The point is to not have any nibblers because the item is worth say $100.

You bid $100, your buddy bids $101. And the next highest bidder is say $15 because the two of you bumped it higher or as high as the item was worth.

When your buddy retracts his bid you become the winning bidder for $15.50.

No nibblers because the price was so high and you win it for $15.50.

This is of course against the rules.

Ahh, thanks, I get it. Now that you have explained it. region2's description has got it wrong, it seems to me. Anyway it is clever. 'Why didn't I think of that!' Reminds me somewhat of all the clever cons you hear about in New York City, in that at first you think, gosh that's fiendishly clever...but then you think, if these con artists would friggin apply their same brains and resourcefulness toward some sort of constructive and honest work, maybe they could earn a pretty decent living....

According to this site, the name of this technique is “Bid Shielding”:
http://members.cox.net/cruentidei/ebay/invalid.html



http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72698.asp?promo=homepage

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According to this site,....

Not a bad site for explaining some (invalid) bid strategies. Does a good job discussing fallacies of nuclear bidding.

Since when is "Auction Stalking" against ebay's rules. Ebay offers a search by bidder function to do just that. Sometimes someone else will find an item that you missed or overlooked, it is in ebay's best interest to help us find it.

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region2's description has got it wrong

Eh? I wrote it so how can it be wrong? Don't blame me 'cos English isn't your first language and you don't understand the basics of eBay!

R2