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How about a tool that bids immediately on your behalf at a very high price and then, 'at the last second', retracts that bid and bids at a more realistic price. You would need a dodgy id for the 1st bid and your real id for the 'winning' snipe! I'm sure it's been done manually (not by me I hasten to add!) but it might just work automatically. Probably not legal though...

Just a thought.

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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....

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